In my last blog entry I mentioned that I wanted to do one painting a week, for four weeks. Am I on track. Well kind of. One isn’t quite a painting, but more of a sketch, but illness, and having a bit of a social life got in the way.
So far I have completed three out of the four pictures and just have one more to do, which I don’t think is that bad going.
I started off painting a version of a St Ives scene, although my artistic licence meant that I opted not to put in a few buildings. I then decided that all of my pictures would be of the same scene. I find it quite interesting to paint the same scene using different materials and mediums as it not only helps me familiarise with it, but I like to see how using different mediums changes my style.
The first painting was on canvas and painted using acrylics. I primed over an old painting I didn’t like – this is well worth doing, as canvas’s can be expensive. Then I sketched out in yellow ochre the outlines of the buildings.
I selected my palette of muted colours and set to work. Here’s the result.
My second painting was created on arches watercolour paper and collage, acrylic inks and acrylic paint was used.
I tore up some handmade paper and stuck this on to the watercolour paper using Golden Gel Medium. I then started to drip inks over the canvas, using a misting spray to help the paint merge on the paper. This gets quite messy so it’s best to put down some plastic sheeting or newspaper if you don’t want your worktop to get stained.
Yesterday I was thinking about the painting holiday in St Ives I went on some time ago....July 07 to be precise and how invigorating it was. How much fun I had being with creative souls, none of whom I knew at the start and how we all painted the same scene so very differently.
