Trying something new today…I’ve videoed this painting as its developed…Hopefully you’ll be able to play it back (not sure about you Mac people…let me know ;)) anyway, this is about 3 hours work compressed into 3 minutes…surprising how little of that time the brush is actually on the paper, lots of drying time, a bit of drawing and masking time…then general tea drinking and dancing around the place…luckily you can’t see that :)
I think this works MUCH better than the live TV concept, which was…
a: DULL.
b: didn’t work very well.
c: Distracting from my point of view
So I’ll try and improve the framing, lighting, general quality and keep doing things in this format from now on :)
As for the picture itself, I thought I’d do a small series of Blenheim Palace watercolours. Took a few photos there yesterday as the weather was so nice…though strangely I ended up doing this painting with a very grey sky…am enjoying being MUCH less ridged with my photographic source material, not something I’ve naturally done in the passed, but a lot of fun once you get into it…Anyway, I think I’ll put this into the Oxford Art Society exhibition at Woodstock Museum, hopefully it’ll be selected :)
And finally…One of the Lake District paintings is on show as part of Oxfringe next week, see their website for further details. :)
Well that’s it for today…nearly beer time :)
