todays work

I've built a clay shim and applied the first area of plaster. I've used a rather old packet of plaster so I'm hoping it'll be okay and set, if not I'll need to do it again next week...have also been working on Snow White, I've finished blocking in the main shapes, so the next task will be starting on the patterned sections. I've been working in a slightly different way on this picture, using charcoal to draw the lines I want and then sealing the correct marks with the acrylic, washing off the rest of the charcoal and then drawing the next layer. It's a very effective way of building up the design, Definately something I'll continue doing.

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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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drawing snow white

I've gridded up the board, transferred over the drawing of katie, sealed that with paint and then worked up the main lines of the rest of the painting in charcoal. Need to live with this for a little bit now, but it feels promising at the moment.

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stage 3

I've covered the wet clay with silicone, building it up in layers and finally adding some ridges to key it Into the next stage which will be the plaster 'mother' mold... it took several hours to carefully work this all in, so hopefully it'll work ;) also started drawing out the 'snow white' picture today, more on that tomorrow :)

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stage 2

Modelled a head in the end, spent longer on it than I really should have as its just an experiment, but I was really enjoying working with clay again...haven't used clay for 25 years ! Frightening how time flies...

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stage 1

I've built a giant matchstick ! I'm going to build a simple clay model over the top of this, no idea what of yet, all a bit of an experiment, just want to go through the process and see what problems arrise. Large board in background has had base colour applied ready for next painting which will probably be titled "snow white"...

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some new toys...

I'm going to do a little experiment with these over the next few days...first week in ages that i have 3 clear days in the studio... :)

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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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preparing canvases...

I've been preparing some large(ish) boards and some small canvases today for the next series of paintings. Hopefully you'll get to see something of the first small ones of these tomorrow. :)

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stone...

Here is the actual photo...I'll put that down to jet lag ;)

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stone...

Well I'm back in the studio today after my trip to oz. Generally doing some cleaning up and a few odd jobs, but on a more exciting front I've just been out and picked up this little piece of stone...something new for 2011...sculpture... :)

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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 :)