Thursday 19 November 2009
Sunday 8 November 2009
Saturday 17 October 2009
Place du verdun , Castelnaudary le matin
Friday 9 October 2009
Wednesday 23 September 2009
Monday 21 September 2009
Prints
Tuesday 18 August 2009
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun
It started enthusiastically , then came the clouds !, so Pierre had to return the next day ! I had only just started when the sun disappeared again!
After a series of mad bursts of activity during every bright patch , the
shadows finally changed too much and I had barely finished the head.
Disappointingly , I had to finish the study with the aid of photographs.
I will post the finished painting soon .
Sunday 2 August 2009
Exaggerating colour to achieve luminosity
Monday 20 July 2009
Friday 17 July 2009
portrait of Edmund 30 x 28 "
Wednesday 1 July 2009
back door study
Recently , I have been painting directly from life a great deal.
I enjoy it far more than from photographs . It is much easier to
see subtle colours and tones with your own eyes.
I have completed this sketch , I say sketch , as it was completed in two
separate days about an hour each. The light changes so quickly so I had to do
it like that.
I have had this painting in mind for 2 years, it is our back door to the garden.
The painting is about 12 x 9 inches.
Monday 22 June 2009
Sunday 21 June 2009
workshop
Thursday 11 June 2009
Gilda
Monday 8 June 2009
Rebecca 16 x 12
After seeing some great work from an excellent crop of contemporary American artists I tried a different approach.Using mongoose brushes, which are a little stiffer than sable,
I painted thinner than normal , simplifying the tonal values little more than usual,and using colour instead to model forms.Something I have never really done before.
It certainly has given me food for thought.
Sunday 24 May 2009
New Studio
Sunday 3 May 2009
Monday 20 April 2009
Friday 3 April 2009
Monday 2 March 2009
Figure painting workshop 19-20th and 26-27th June
Saturday 28 February 2009
View from a Paris window 24 x 20 "
Wednesday 11 February 2009
Saturday 31 January 2009
Demo 20 x 16
I started this demo Thursday and finished it off yesterday . It was of a French model,
Félicie, that I used a while back.I started it to show Iain Vellacott, my approach to
painting.
It is good to see how much he has improved over the past year, in his
figurework especially.
Here is his link www.inoils.com
Thursday 22 January 2009
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