In Dreams You're Mine - I - Finished

All finished...:)

In Dreams You're Mine - I - part 3

Just the Gold to go on tomorrow and it'll be done....

In Dreams You're Mine - I - part 2

I’ve finished the second colour on the figure & bench & started drawing in the feathers. I need to continue with the feathers & paint the face & hand tomorrow…if I can get that done I should be able to get the gold on Saturday and then It’ll be done…

Waiting for the Right One - I - Finished

Another long day today, but that’s meant I’ve finished ‘Waiting for the Right One – I’.
I’m really pleased with this one, the best picture I’ve painted for a few years I think…I wanted something that was beautiful as an image, while having a very personal meaning to me & a flexible meaning to viewers in general…I think I’ve got much closer to that aim than I have for a while…hope you like it & find something within it that speaks to you…

Waiting for the Right One - I - part 3

Late night opening for Artweeks, so 11 hours in the studio today…knackered now, but I got a lot done :) I’ve finished the second tone on ‘Waiting for the Right One I’ & painted her face, so just the hands & Gold to go…

Waiting - Part 2

waiting - part 1

Artweeks is well underway now & we've had some lovely visitors in over the weekend, in between borring them with my chatter on pigments I've managed to get a little work done on this new painting. It's called 'Waiting for the right one - I' & the model is Katie.

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2 of 4...

I've started on these two pictures today. I need to get four paintings done for Meller (in theory by the end of this month...) so i've got 'snow white' which is going well, the red one of katie, which isn't...and now these...one of Jo with an Apple and one of her daughter Lucy, with some leaves...both are using some of the elements from the snow white painting, so hopefully they'll go together well.....

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more red bits...

Lots of interesting textures in this now, but its not working yet. I've been painting a lot of it with my fingers...which takes me back...seems to help the paint work over the textured surface better though.

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working on the red piece

I've roughed in Katie on this piece today...painting on such a textured surface is a challenge...

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April...

A new month and another new piece started, Bryn doesn't look to impressed so far but this is just the first layer of the background, eventually its going to be another portrait of Katie, but as you can see, much larger this time. Have also been working on snow white, the areas painted Orange will be gilded with gold. Most of the drawing is now done on this, still need to do the man in the moon though. I took the green painting of Katie up to the RA yesterday, so we'll see what happens this year ;-)

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blocking in...

I've started working on the main shapes today, building up the curves and thinking about exactly how I'm going to try and pull things together...

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something new...

This is the first of the small canvases. It's called "the girl with the boy in her eyes", 50 x 20 cm, acrylic & the model is katie.

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Study of Katie

This is a study of Katie who came in to do some modelling for me the other day. I’m hoping to get several people in to do some modelling for me early in the New Year and then start developing some more complex oil paintings…I’m looking forward to that :)