I Saw the Crescent - part 8

Nearly done now, I finished the moon & figure then put a final coat of background colour on today. So just the gold to add tomorrow and it’ll be finished :)

Pick of the week

Here are a couple of photos of the exhibition before people started arriving and a copy of a lovely write-up that appeared in today’s Oxford Times (Link to electronic version here). The opening went very well, with lots of visitors all enjoying themselves and the paintings.

My Paparazzi friend Neil took lots of photos, so hopefully I’ll have a few of those to post soon too :)

We opened again today and had several visitors in, so hopefully with the article in the paper Saturday will be busy once again. :)

The exhibition is open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday up to and including Saturday 18th December…

Hope you can come along :)

Modelling day

One of the best things about getting the studio is I now have space to get some models in and set up some lighting and props etc. So yesterday my son Jack and some of his friends came over for a few hours and we experimented with a few ideas from my sketch book. They were all fantastic, so many thanks to Jack I, Jack II, Mary and Caroline. Over the next couple of weeks you should start to see the first paintings from this session appear, all I need to do now is paint them as well as they modelled for them :)

Room two...

Gallery room is pretty much done now, walls painted, hole in floor fixed, paintings on the walls. Have also got lights up in the Studio room, lovely and bright, might need to get new sunglasses. Have Jack and his school chums coming over this Thursday to do some modelling for me. Second experiment went very well so have started on third which builds upon it. Both are oil over gold leaf. I’ll post some photos of those later in the week and perhaps a few sketches from the modelling session…busy :)

Studio room finished...pretty much...

Finally back online after my PC died a horrible death…a shiny new laptop in front of me now…to hell with the expense ;)
Here’s a quick snap of the main studio room in the workshop, all the decorating and bench building is finished and I’ve managed to move all my stuff in…I never realised just how much I’d been able to squirrel away in the cottage, as I started moving things out I just kept finding more and more…I shouldn’t run out of supplies for a while anyway :)
I should get the gallery room painted over the next week or so, I’m not planning on doing anything fancy in there initially, just painting the walls, putting up some curtains and hanging some paintings, so it should all be pretty straightforward.
I’ve started a little experimental painting this week, an extension on what I was doing with the watercolours, but using mixed media…something new for me…I’ll post some of that over the weekend :)

Graham's Studio...

I have a new studio! It’s still not entirely empty yet, with the previous occupant storing some things there for a little while longer… However, I have been able to get into the main room and am currently redecorating, building benches etc. I’m going to have one room as the main studio and one as a gallery, so all in all, very exciting :) I’ll post a few more photos as things progress and hopefully get all the DIY done pretty quickly so I can get on with some new…bigger paintings :)