Building things up...

 

A little more work on the tree yesterday, plus testing how the moths and leaves are going to look...

 

Posted with Blogsy

A new tree experiment part 1

 

I started work on this new tree painting the other day and today I'm getting the frame started as well. I want to get the artwork and frame to really work as a package.

This is going to be a more detailed, coloured piece than recent ones, with a landscape in the background a 'little' like my watercolours...very swirly and graphic. The trees themselves will be white, as will the inner tray of the frame...

 

Posted with Blogsy

Natasha painting all finished

 

Well I've finally finished the Natasha painting this week. I'll order the materials for frame tomorrow then it should all be ready for delivery next weekend. Posting this from the pub, so I'm going back to my pint now...will post a new experiment I'm working on very soon. :-)

 

Posted with Blogsy

Apple tree painting part 2

Here's the second part of the painting being done :-)

Posted with Blogsy

Painting

 

Sorry it's been so quiet in here lately, I'm working really hard on the framing to get that business established...longer term this will hopefully give me more painting time...honest ;-) anyway, I'm not framing tomorrow, I'm in the SOTA Gallery in Witney doing a painting demonstration. I'll be working on the Natasha portrait...so I should make some progress on that which is long overdue. I'll be there between 10 and 4.30 so pop in and say hi if you're nearby.

 

I've been preparing some new painting boards today for an up and coming solo exhibition, also at SOTA, these are going got be an extension of the orange forest pieces...I'll post some pictures of those as they develop over the next couple of weeks.

 

Ok, off to sleep now, big day tomorrow...will tell you all about it soon... :-)

 

Posted with Blogsy

Mirror mirror on the wall...

First gesso frame all finished...:-) This one has been gilded in white gold, painted in off-white, limed and aged, then fitted with a beveled mirror. It's 19x23 inches and is on display in the shop now :-)

Posted with Blogsy

Swirling house commission

Finally a commission I can actually show you ;-) I painted this piece last week as a present for a customers husband. They had actually moved from the house on the left to the one on the right! I needed to get them both in frame and bend everything around in my usual style, which was a fun challenge as this road is perfectly straight...it's the middle of Queen Street, Eynsham should you ever be there, see if you can workout which houses they are ;-)

Posted with Blogsy

Burnishing

Burnishing up the gold this morning....looking lovely :-)

 

Posted with Blogsy

Gilding

Here I am starting to gild the mirror frame, I went for 12 carat white gold, rather than pure silver in the end as this will give a warmer feel to the final frame. It'll need to rest for a day or two now before I can burnish the gold...then I can begin work on the painted areas... :-)

Posted with Blogsy

Burnishing the Bole

Today I'm burnishing up the Bole, until it's highly polished and ready for gilding...

Posted with Blogsy

Last of the Bole...

One more coat of red to go on the top frame & I'm just going to go with a single coat of black on the mirror frame as I want as much warmth to show through the silver as possible. These need to dry out for a couple of days now before we move onto the next stage... :-)

Posted with Blogsy

Yummy...

 

Here we have the leftovers...

And here's the bit we were actually after...'size'...I'll be using this on a sample piece of frame later in the week....

Not much in there as I cooked it a little too long, but I'll add a little water to it when I use it and there should be more than enough for my little experiment...:-)

Posted with Blogsy

Darkening up the colours

I've had a very busy week framing, so only got onto painting this afternoon. Luckily it was a productive afternoon :-) I've started darkening up 4 of the pieces, I'll try and work on the other 3 early in the mornings next week and hopefully all will then be ready for the first coat of resin before next weekend. It's going to be a very busy couple of weeks in the run up to the exhibition.... :-)

Posted with Blogsy

Finished Paintings

And here are the final paintings all framed up :) They’re up on the wall in Harrison’s in Eynsham if you’re in that neck of the woods :)

New Cards now in stock

Our new stock of cards has arrived today!

Eynsham, Woodstock, Cornwall along with a selection of the ‘Girls in Love’ images Graham painted last year. We’ll be adding to the range regularly :)

As well as being available at ‘The Cuckoo’s Nest’, they, along with a couple of Eynsham paintings are also available from Harrisons Sandwich Shop in the Square, Eynsham.

Art and lunch all in one location, what more could you ask for :)

Winter Exhibition 2011

Open Every Saturday From 26th November to 17th December.
Hope you can come along :)

square finished sky started

I've finished the latest painting of the square and titled it " reading in the square " need to live with it a while now to see which of the techniques grow on me :). I've also done some work on the "pastures new" picture, the sky is pretty much done and I've done a first pass on the gold.

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.5

more acrylic progress

Have been doing some more work one this today . I've been using charcoal to get the dark outlines which is giving me a really interesting line and variation of colour. There's more to do on the trees and railings around the cross and then it should be done.

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.5

experimenting

This is a quick test of blogging from my phone . Let's see if it works . I've been working on this picture of the square in eynsham using acrylic ,still a long way to go but I'm starting to get some interesting marks .

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.5

Moonlit Square - Finished

Well today has been another busy day over at the exhibition with visitors particularly enjoying the gold paintings and the hot tea on such a cold day :)
Thursday and Friday were a bit quieter which allowed me to make some progress with the ‘Moonlit Square’ watercolour and I’ve finished it off today, hope you like it :)