Beginning with Chinese scripts and moving through historical and textual representations of this key part of my environment, all of it alongside the actuality, I’ve arrived at the near final stage. As of last week, there is an enclosed and … Continue reading Assignment 5 – painting and print #5
The assignment focuses on aspects of the artist’s personal environment, from walks to buildings, animals, pets, garden, and the interior of the home. Written long before the current situation whereby some of us have spent almost a year with little … Continue reading Assignment research point
Delivered by Mall Galleries via Facebook video on January 30th 2021. A live demo of anything is hair-raising enough but when you’re not only the star turn but also the camera operator, sound engineer, and studio assistant, and you’re facing a faceless but constantly chattering stream of comments with nobody mediating them for you, it must be a nightmare. So absolute respect to Tony Allain for delivering two pastel paintings in under two hours, along with a commentary free of gloss and any sort of falutin. This is towards the middle of the first painting which he made from a … Continue reading Tony Allain – pastel painting live demo
The animation was made in MotionLeap for iPad, the video with audio in Filmora10, the audio for the first video was provided by Epidemic Sounds, copyright free and subject only to Creative Commons licence which recognises fair use, and the … Continue reading Side project – copy a Degas
Sometimes I just need to break out of a planned route and go off piste. At this point in the execution of the final assignment for UPM, I’ve a) had about enough of cartridge and building work, conservatories and mud, … Continue reading Side project – copy a Degas
Things have moved on a little in the environment under examination and now there are panels ready to receive glass. There should also have been a roof but due to a measurement error, this could not be fitted and at … Continue reading Part 5, Assignment 5 – painting and print #4
Remember those quiz questions that go something like, UK law or Game of Thrones? Well here’s another – Abstract art or painter’s palette? Whilst this may seem somewhat uncharitable with regard to contemporary art, I think there is a valid … Continue reading Contemporary art or palette?
After completing the first pair of paintings in quite an abstract style, I’m intending to make a further two pairs in increasingly less abstract style, reflecting the eventual resolution of the studio environment. Today/tomorrow there are electricians, on Monday there … Continue reading Part 5, Assignment 5 – painting and print #3
Two Tents. These are in the garden filled with the other half of my studio contents, waiting for their new home to be completed. So far, they’ve withstood some serious winds and torrential downpours with only a slight shift in … Continue reading Part 5, Assignment 5 – painting and print #2
Building on the earlier sketches, I’ve begun making larger paintings using the same initial images and extracts from the I Ching and Tao Te Ching. I mistakenly chose a different page from the latter, thereby adding a further layer of … Continue reading Part 5, Assignment 5 – painting and print #1
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