Monday, 20 February 2012
Friday, 18 November 2011
Prints of a selection of my paintings now Available!
Museum Quality Prints available through Octopus Art
I have taken the plunge and decided to sell prints. I will be offering this when I exhibit, perhaps I should have done so before? Who knows..we live and learn!
I have taken the plunge and decided to sell prints. I will be offering this when I exhibit, perhaps I should have done so before? Who knows..we live and learn!
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Roses n Pearls
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Still Life, Quick Painting in Oil
Saturday, 8 October 2011
Another Oil Portrait
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Portrait in Oil
This is one of the pieces I am working on. A Portrait of a beautiful girl. Zakiya is my babysitter and very kindly agreed to let me paint her portrait. I am hoping if I blog about it, that will give me the push I need to finish it. Sometimes the creative instincts flow, other times, like this past few weeks it feels like I am trying to force blood from a stone. All I know for sure is that a day without painting is a miserable one, soon as I paint, draw or sculpt it feels like a great big mean noisy pteradactyl has lifted off my shoulders.
Zakiya, Oil on Canvas 18"x 24" |
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Painting Leaves
This is another quick one, longer than I would have hoped but I decided to use a glaze and for that I needed the first layers of paint to dry. I found a leaf, dry, dead I suppose but in its demise it caught my eye. Dry yet the colours seems so vibrant. I like to paint from life, it is so much more rewarding than working from photo's. So I stuck the leaf to the wall in front of my easel and painted it. I am happy with the result. I have been thinking a lot lately about solitude, and how I find being an artist is very much a solitary pursuit. This painting is more about solitude than a sketch of a dry leaf. Artist and subject, all else fades away for the process.
I Stuck a Leaf to my Wall, Oil on Fabriano Paper, 19"x 14" |
Monday, 22 August 2011
Expectations, Revelations and Complications
Painting figures using oils, still all new to me. Somehow it gets under your skin, into your brain and sits there..challenging you, pushing you. I want to rush and rush and finish but it does not happen that way. You battle and struggle and try to get comfortable. I Love painting figures, I Hate painting figures...at least once a week I want to quit painting altogether, then it draws me back like a drug I cannot exist without. I need models, real people. I often see a person on the street and would love to ask them to sit for me, but I never do...I feel like some kinda art pervert freak. People think I am strange, not sure if I care about that.
When a painting is near completion I have to at least have visualised the next one, if I don't have a planned next move I feel anxious, disturbed. I would love to know if other artists suffer for their work as I sometimes do...frustration is me!
When a painting is near completion I have to at least have visualised the next one, if I don't have a planned next move I feel anxious, disturbed. I would love to know if other artists suffer for their work as I sometimes do...frustration is me!
Expectation, Oil on Canvas 18"x 24" |
Sunday, 14 August 2011
Yesterday, Oil on Canvas
Yesterday, Oil on Canvas 24"x 18" |
As usual a bit more to do, it is the final touches that take me so long to do. Not sure why that is. All I know for sure is that after the London Riots this week, I feel less like words and more like dissapearing into my head and seeking solace in my happy place, if I can find it.
Thursday, 4 August 2011
My Newest Figure Study in Oil
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