Monday, 15 August 2016
A Year Later
A lot has happened since I last posted my Blog.
My husband had a bad fall on our staircase and broke his ankle and foot which required hospitalisation,followed by three months in respite then weeks in rehab.He finally came home ,promising me he would always use the stair lift in future.It has been a long year with continual trips to specialists,physios and now a Diabetic counsellor.He strives on daily doing his exercises ,riding his static bike which our children gave him and eating the correct food .
Meanwhile I have tried to paint in between visits to hospitals,respite centres and rehab.hospital.I even got the house painted out in case we had to sell.I managed to declutter quite a bit too,giving away furniture ,books etc.We have to cater for five walkers in various rooms of the house and outside in the Japanese garden as well as in the garage which has two steps down into it.Another is in the boot of the car.
I have been experimenting using graphite,watercolour pencils,crayons and various types of paper.Fun.Some pieces are more successful than others.
I have been inspired by my visit to Japan in May to see my daughter Julia...and hope to do more Scenes from there at some stage.I love the work of Shirley Trevena too and have been trying to compose paintings and work using her methods.Not easy to say the least.But,I will go on trying.
I have also been trying to use more water in my watercolour paintings.
If only I had more time.
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Explaining my recent paintings.
As shown in my paintings,I have been doing lots of watercolours and have been using some old photos as a resource.As shown in the boat scenes I experimented with repositioning the boats,I changed the format and also altered the scene to remove the car and include a couple of people.I enjoyed the challenge of using the same scene but creating different paintings.
I also experimented with a new style in acrylics too and tried a more abstract approach in the landscape scenes.This was fun.
Next I tried to be very creative and used inks to paint some very abstract paintings.Totally different!
I attended a workshop on abstraction a few weeks ago but have not really worked out going from realism to abstraction,so I intend to spend a lot of time in the next few weeks working on this challenge.
Tuesday, 18 August 2015
Latest paintings
This acrylic painting was from a scene in France where we painted en plein air.
A water colour. I took a photo of this scene through the window of a car.
A watercolour of a scene in Croatia.
A watercolour of a scene on Torcello near Venice
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Wet in wet
What fun I have had since I last wrote.
I have been forced to work more slowly,which is probably a good thing,as I have been trialling "wet in wet" with my board and paper thoroughly wet.Some paintings have worked ,some have not.I find it hard to know when I should add more paint or whether I should let it dry completely then re wet the paper.I suppose I will just have to keep on experimenting until I become more familiar with the process.It is a challenge though.
Monday, 8 June 2015
Sunday, 7 June 2015
A winter's day!
Two months since I updated my Blog.I have as much enthusiasm as ever and continue to strive to improve my painting.I have been trying to paint watercolours on hot press paper,wet in wet sometimes,using less pigment and attempting occasionally to paint without drawing up as I saw a recent visiting artist do.Looks easy when he does it!I must try to be more patient and wait before going back into the wet paint .
As well as watercolour I have done a few acrylic paintings.Some are successful,others not so good.I like to keep a record of my work so that I can refer back to it and sometimes wonder how I achieved a particular result.
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