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are well into our second year now. I am just putting my own work here
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We have had
a delightful autumn, so for two friday afternoons we've been out to
a local beauty spot to sketch. From the sketches we have been painting
& etching. It's amazing how much work can develop from this. Some
of my outdoor sketches are shown opposite. The tints were obtained by
rubbing mud, blackberries, hips, haws and deadly nightshade on the paper.
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From
my sketch top left, I painted a digital painting and then made the etching
on the left, I made it whole and then cut the steel plate into 3 to
deliniate textures. |
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I
made 3 further digital paintings from my sketch book |
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Click this pic to see it
snowing
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I did
two imaginative digital compositions, one in watercolour wet-in-wet
and
one pen and wash
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now into abstracting these landscapes. The 1st is done with prociene
dye and bleach and the bottom two are computer painting. |
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A
digital still life just done for recreation. |
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On 1st November we had an
outing to Cambridge, Kettles Yard. A delightful setting of art, objects,
sculpture, etc.
The brainchild of the late
Jim Ede, one time curator of the Tate. He donated this, his lifetime's
work, to The Cambridge Universities.
It contains the work of Ben
& Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallace, David Jones, Henri Gaudier-Bezeska
to name a few.
I made an 18 minute video
of it. These are all clipped off the footage.
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| The work on landscapes is
now being turned into contemporary art. The two above done with prociene
dye, oil pastel, black ink and bleach. The effects, although contrived,
can be interesting and surprising. |
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| Sooo, I thought I would
try my new prog Bryce5, designed for making photo-realistic landscapes.
Here I used it to achieve a surreal effect. But you can still see it
is Sharpenhoe Clappers, well I can anyway, lol |
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A miss-match
of images. The 1st an old acrylic painting I did of the owl from life
in 1996 (a silly tame owl), but I superimposed it on a Bryce landscape.
Next the start of my "paint a commission" painting module.
I have 4 children to portray, this was a digital rendition just as practice
to get into portrait painting again.(see link at top of page) Thirdly,
on the left, a wee drawing from my mini-sketch book drawn from the top
of the Tate Modern, looking over the Thames. This is actually a small
enlargement on the real size of my sketchbook. |
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