Not beating about the bush, I find this sort of task difficult because meaning drives my painting and reducing an image to shapes strips it of that. But I know this image because I used it in the previous exercise … Continue reading Part 1, exercise 1:4 – 10 and 20 minute paintings upside down
There’s a beautiful old church in Bramber that dates back to the 11th century and sits next to the ruins of Bramber Castle. This is where the Summer Exhibition is usually held; where glasses of orange juice and homemade cakes … Continue reading Steyning Arts Summer Exhibition – from ancient to modern
18th August. This task requires an assembling of five of my found images, overlapped; an A3 sheet of paper, and water-based paint. I have run out of HP watercolour paper so I used black cartridge, painting the blocks of the … Continue reading Part 1, exercise 1:3 – quick and focused
The notes present a table of artists grouped according to style: slick, flat paint; loose thin paint; photo-realism; black and white; colour and pattern; and messy. The task is first to look two (at least) from each category and write … Continue reading Research point 1 – categories of contemporary and historical painters
That’s it, all done and dusted, assessed and graded. For anyone still in the throes of completing this module, and any new starters for as long as it has any relevance, I am leaving the blog here so you can … Continue reading Farewell, Drawing Skills 1
This exercise uses found images again, this time on 10 prepared postcard sized backgrounds – 5 black and 5 white. I used Aquarelle HP watercolour paper which is quite solid and relatively robust, although I discovered it is not up … Continue reading Part 1, exercise 1:2 – black and white
The task here is to use, I think, of one image on different kinds of background using dilute paints or inks of various kinds, and also varnish. I had available acrylic, watercolour, gouache, ecoline inks, and both polymer and spray … Continue reading Part 1, exercise 1:1 – painting thin and small
I had just begun a personal project triggered by the launch of the Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, which I’d watched being built via NASA/JPL’s live stream from the clean room for many months. It was Dr Who back-of-the-sofa nail biting … Continue reading Introduction
This belongs here because of its relatedness. Made on an 8″ x 10″ re-purposed canvas board but extending beyond its margins it comprises the corrugated packaging designed to protect the fragile contents of a parcel which I’ve stained with acrylic … Continue reading Post-assignment work
This picture keeps zipping by on my Echo Show as it cycles through wallpaper art. Some I recognise – there is a van Gogh and some Gaugin amongst other things – so I assumed this artist was in the same … Continue reading Side project – not at all Winslow Homer
Strayfish Arts 