Another session of hard work today, with everyone moving onto their thicker paint, and gradually lightening up their paintings. At the end of the morning we have 6 fantastic and very different masterpieces, some not too far from finishing, Great work everyone. Perhaps come armed with more photographs next week, just in case!
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Back into Gill’s studio for another exciting four weeks of Acrylic Painting for 6 keen artists. We have a nice mixture of beginners and more experienced students in this group. Being the first class, there’s always a lot of revving up, and instruction from me, and after some ‘exploring’ of the primary colours in the palettes, everyone was painting furiously. By the end of the morning the whole group had made an incredible start on their first paintings.
As you can see below, the class finished with everyone at a different stage of their ‘ink work’. The ink, applied with a stick, has allowed them to redraw, redefine, move objects, and add texture to their paintings. Some will go straight into thicker paint immediately next week (after revising their darks of course!) others will continue inking for a little longer…..
The two below are just about to start on the ink
A huge effort from everyone. I look forward to our continuing journey next Tuesday!
For info on future art courses including sketching, monoprint, collage and painting, contact: gill@artistswindow.com. Gill’s website: http://artistswindow.com.
This was the last week for this keen group, and considering 3 of them had never painted before, they produced some excellent paintings, as did the more experienced student.
All finished now after some extra hard work this morning
A few little light touches will be added onto these lovely tulips at home.
With so much wonderful ink-work, this one will take a little longer to pull together with the lighter layer, but it’s looking great, and I look forward to seeing the finished work.
This rather demanding subject matter has been given a nice delicate touch and is finished as well.
Well done and thanks everyone for the hard work. I know it is a lot to absorb over four weeks, and it’s been really rewarding to see the progress everyone has made. I hope you will all continue painting happily.
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Another week and here we are again with our 3rd class for this group, plus a catch up student from the previous Continuation Class. Everyone worked extremely hard again today, and are making great progress towards the completion of the paintings.
There is a lot of going back and forth from darks to lights during these end stages, but each step is a little closer to the end, and all these layers really do work together to give the painting lots of nice depth.
A lot of hard work was done on the composition of this one today and its most definitely getting closer to its completion.
This is very nearly finished – just lightening up the background and redefining the plant.
Lightening up lots of areas here, then maybe a little more ink to re-find some areas.
Really coming together – not long now before completion
A new painting started, and looking good already!
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For Sale – 13th February 2014
This is another painting based on one of my favourite themes, ‘reflections’. Once again I took this photo on the lovely Greek island of Alonissos. The line of fishing boats in the harbour below my hotel just cried out for frequent visits to determine which time of the day gave off the best reflections. Early evening, with the intensity of colours and patterns on the water, seemed to be the winner. I enjoy painting these and losing myself in the abstract!
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Reflections of Alonissos
Price: AUD$ 90.00
Size: 21 x 15cm
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The start of a whole new experience for three new painters, plus some ongoing tuition for another who had done the course before.
We started the morning with lots of instruction, some mixing of colours, and demonstrations, then it was onto the paintings. Considering the beginners had done no painting before, they did incredibly well, with most of them being halfway through their first painting and onto the ‘ink’ phase. We’ll see how these look after the next class – you’ll be surprised!
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For Sale – 11th November 2013 –
As you might have gathered from my recent blog, we’re now in France, after a great saunter through Italy. My previous post gives you the highlights of that.
I’ve never managed to get to Aix en Provence, which is strange considering we lived within a 2 hour drive for 3 years. We’ve had a couple of attempts during our past French trips, but it never quite worked out, and once we even arrived there, but couldn’t find hotel. This time we were determined to at least have a look at the place. We spent the night, and next morning managed to land right in the midst of the Saturday market – a real bonus for me, of course. I was becoming convinced that many of the French markets were abandoning the coloured umbrellas, and leaning more towards the practical white ones, often attached to the side of the ever more efficient vans. But there they were, in all their glory – umbrellas in every colour, stretched through a large area of Aix. It was a very crowded market, so taking photos proved a little tricky, and I have plenty of heads and elbows in some of my shots as proof, and although the overall impression was one of multi-colours, when narrowing it down for photos, I didn’t quite capture it as I would have liked, but ho hum….. it was still great. The mushroom stand was just amazing, as being autumn, the cepes were there in all their glory, giant ones this year too.
Anyway, this little painting is actually a watercolour, worked up in my rather heavy handed acrylic method of painting. The trick with watercolour I believe, is leaving lots of nice white paper – something I am still trying to achieve. This one depicts a tiny section of the flower market, but there will be more of these market scenes to follow. Have I said that before I wonder…..?
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Le Marche, Aix en Provence
Price: AUD$90.00
Size: 21 x 15cm
(Postage and handling included)
In conjunction with the Koroni Arts Festival, my latest and joint exhibition with fellow artist Gill Tomlinson, got off to a flying start with a great opening on 11th September. We were fortunate to be able to have our Exhibition in the lovely Maniatakeion building in ‘downtown’ Koroni, perfect with its large white walls and high ceilings. It was a particularly hot and steamy night, and I think the very professional interview and video has Gill and I looking surprisingly composed and cool!
I had various recently completed paintings on display, along with Gill’s mostly collage and mixed media works. The table down the middle of the Gallery contained our sketchbooks, which created a lot of interest. Some people even asked if they were for sale…. right!
In conjunction with the Koroni Arts Festival, my latest and joint exhibition with fellow artist Gill Tomlinson, got off to a flying start with a great opening on 11th September.
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