Tourists
painting figures columns landscape abstract
Acrylic on board 8.5" x 8.5" £85 (British pounds) plus postage & packing (£3.50 to UK; £7 to rest of world)I like the theatricality of this - stage sets and all that - and how the figures look a bit "cut out and stuck on" because I think that's how tourists are. They don't blend in to a landscape very well.
Beach hut
painting beach hut figure abstract surreal
This painting has been sold
Acrylic on hardboard 8" x 8"
Approach
painting abstract urban landscape figures
Acrylic on board 7.5" x 7.5" £85 (British pounds) plus postage & packing (£3.50 to UK; £7 to rest of world)Can't think of anything to say about this except I loved painting it. That's about it really.
Flight
painting figurative surreal
Acrylic on wood 12" x 12" £125 (British pounds) plus postage & packing (£3.50 to UK; £7 to rest of world)This is more the kind of thing I was after - a confident statement not fussed over too much. Is it the start of something new. Or not.
I used a palette similar to the one
Sandra Flood often uses which is prussian blue, raw umber, titanium white, burnt sienna, yellow iron oxide - and I added winsor & newton's violet iron oxide which is the bulk of that red area. I overlayed that in parts with the burnt sienna which you can't see too well in the photo. Thanks Sandra for being the generous girl you are. Do take a look at her fantastic work if you don't already know it. Prepare to be gobsmacked.
The Dream
painting dreamscape figures park evening
Acrylic on board 24" x 24" I have used a lot of colour overlay here which I'm not sure you can see well from the digital image (in reality also the blue is more purply). I used a very limited palette and kept away from my earth colours with the exception of raw umber which I love for providing a "steadying influence". The rest were cobalt, alizarin, yellow iron oxide, cadmium yellow and white. This time I kept the figures in as they seemed to insist on it. It's great working on this bigger size. With the small paintings I tended to discard and start again if it wasn't working out but with these I just continue adjusting, working on it. Maybe this one isn't finished yet - not sure - I'll live with it for a bit.
Night garden
painting landscape park garden night
Acrylic on board 24" x 24"
I have been in Belgium for a week at my daughter's and had a lovely time but it was good to get back to the paints today although I had no idea at all what I was going to work on. I just had this urge to work on colour and I decided just to "play" on a scrap piece of board but then the big "Italianate" painting sat there looking at me resentfully. To be honest it was still something of a disappointment to me although I had lots of nice comments and I thank you for those - but I just mixed some colour and got stuck in painting it over. I tried to make sure that each area of colour "sat easily" next to its neighbour as Charles Hawthorne advises us to do. I worried less about shape and form and in any case I had my composition done. I just had to work into it with new colour mixes.
What stayed in my mind all last week as far as the last painting was concerned was not so much the two figures but the purple and greeny background, so I mixed some more of that and used it as a base.
