landscape
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After some planning with the seascape sketches and the stick-on cloud experiment, I couldn’t ponder any longer. Feeling brave one sunny day, I went for it and set about disturbing that cloudless blue sky. Here’s a photo of those first few marks:
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Marmalade, the Jag Gallery resident cat, tends to like sleeping on the floor below my painting and on my sketches!
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The initial sketches that were selected by the client during our 2nd consultation and used to lay down basic composition of the painting. Followed by some of the sketches using photocopies of the painting to plan the shoreline, placement of the boat and sky formations. Still more planning to be done at this stage.
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The seascape commission is underway! Before Christmas, I painted the sky in a blended graduation of predominantly colbalt blue and established the basic layout for the sea, beach and shoreline with the rocks suggesting a focal point. Although the early stages look very basic, it is surprising how influential they are. Even though the scene…
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I battled against the wind today, working on my outside on my painting and battled with beefing up the lad in the middle, as his lanky limbs and spazzer legs had been bugging me all weekend, he’s moved to the foreground now, which is what I wanted, and in fattening him up, he now looks…
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This new painting, ‘Growing Up’, was inspired by a recent family outing to Devon, where I grew up. Regular Sunday afternoon walks / slogs up to and climbing one of the tors on Dartmoor, whatever the weather, were fairly frequent. We were then rewarded with flasks of tea and chunky cheddar and pickle wholemeal sandwiches…