The Art of Being Alive As An Artist
Some here may or may not remember my starting this painting two years ago. It began as an experiment in photorealism, and to see whether I could do it or not. It was a daunting challenge to begin with, and progress was often slow. Last year at the beginning of this pandemic and my year-long […]
I’ve stopped worked on my highly detailed Venice painting with the fruit cart for now because I needed a break from it. Instead I’ve been focussing on doing more impressionistic work, if only to remind myself that there are other ways to paint than just with a tiny brush and rationed breath. It’s been a […]
It has been a little while since I last posted anything here, although I have been keeping myself fairly busy with various painting projects. I believe I left you with my lighthouse painting in my last post. Since then I have completed the third watercolour painting of my daughter Grace, in a series that will […]
Finally, I have bitten the bullet, taken the bull by its horns, and accepted the challenge of once again, attempting to sell my art online! It may turn out to be a fruitless venture as typically it can take up to a couple of years before anyone even notices that one is present. However, owing […]
At the stroke of midnight last night I added the final brush stroke to, what is my first ever landscape in oils. It has taken me almost a month to complete, although to be fair, half that time was spent waiting for layers of paint to dry. In between, me and Bill have repainted our […]
Rather than being close to completion, I like to think that I am instead slightly further away from the beginning than I was. Producing each layer is like watching paint dry – literally. As stated previously, I left the painting to dry a little over the weekend, at least enough that I could begin working […]
The tree line on the horizon has a little more tonal definition now and the foreground some more tonal variation. I’ve also blocked in the man and his wife in readiness for further glazes. The man will eventually be a lot darker as in the original photo, but I’m hoping that the texture of […]
Here’s where I’m at with this landscape painting after just a week. I think it’s been a week since I began – although I find I’m losing track of time. Hours fly past as I concentrate on just one portion of the painting at a time. The sky has now acquired three layers of paint […]
I’ve been promising myself to get back into painting for some years now. Specifically oil painting. My Dad, who was and still is a brilliant artist and fairly adept at using oils bought me my first easel and oil paint set when I was still in single digits – age 7 maybe. He taught me […]
After about six hours work I am letting the digital paint dry, so to speak. The plan was to recreate something of an unfinished masterwork, as if the artist had run out of funds in the middle of the project. The bit I love the most about being an artist, and a visual editor is […]
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