Oil Paintings from May!…….OMGoodness They are actually dry at last!!!!!!!!! :-D

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”Lurking in the bushes”

‘Dapple Shaded Poppies’

Mounted and ready for shipping as is My Original Oil on canvas
‘Dapple shaded poppies’

Dapple shaded poppies mounted

Time for a happy dance…get the clogs on!! Some may remember??…way,way,way back in May of this year I did ten Oil paintings on 14 x 10 inch canvas panels?! Only today have these two, actually dried out ;-/!! But, even just behind a mount, they were worth the wait! 😉 Glad I wasn’t holding my breath though – note to self……”add some white in future!! as it dries out much quicker mixed with other pigments”

”One, Small One and Smallest One” An Original 14” x 11” Oil Painting

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‘One,, small one and smallest one’
An Original Oil Painting on 14” x 11” canvas panel.
Continuing with my black and white phase, yesterday, I started this little still life – it’s developed from a drawing I did many years ago of my little soft toy sheep ‘family’, click the link to see pencil sketch
https://carentaylor.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/pencil-drawing-of-still-life-one-small-one-and-smallest-one/

Happy Father’s Day! 🙂

”Merlin’s magic musings” – An Original Oil Painting on 14” x 11” canvas panel –

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”Merlin’s magic musings”
– An Original Oil Painting on 14” x 11” canvas panel – Painted from a photograph of my garden statue!
Somehow, within this week, I managed to clean just about every inch of our house and wash anything which wasn’t too big to fit in the washer…in readiness for our family get together planned for tomorrow….as well as…starting and finishing this little oil painting ( I think I did sleep at some point ..??!) 😉 But, feel completely satisfied that both house and picture both got finished in time!!! 😀
Merlin can now sit along with the other drying oil canvasses on my window ledge before finding him a slot too in my Etsy shop 🙂

A bored moment filler!

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face from ripped up painting bits or ‘perpetual art’ as my daughter remarked!

Over the holidays I found myself alone one day and thought I might experiment more with the Inktense pencils. Firstly I sketched out some small, (4” x 3”ish) doodles of imaginary countryside scenes with an ink pen, I decided not to ink over the originals, so I scanned them and scaled them up to A4 and printed them off on watercolour paper to play around. All good for quick experimentation though as I had scaled up so had the width of the lines on the drawings, some were now almost a quarter inch wide, not to be put off I carried on playing with the ink pencils just to get a feel of what they were like for blending and bleeding together. after an hour of so I had four wet soggy landscape scenes, so mainly green, blue and a little brown from trees and stone walls. As I sat with a cup of tea watching the contorting and curling failed experiments, I decided there must be something I could do with them – really I think I was just trying to pass more time until my family returned – having finished my brew time I grabbed my hair dryer and gave them a quick blast. A little more dry and curly than before I started ripping them into little bits. By the time my family returned from their day out I was sat sorting small pieces of coloured papers into piles, armed with my PVA glue, a brush and the cardboard back of the watercolour pad raring to go again. A couple more hours resulted in the piece you see above formed from bits of sky, lush green meadows and trees! – I have no idea who it is meant to be it just happened!

Definitely not my best work, but never wanting to throw anything away, the mosaic effect collage is different and I liked my daughter’s description of it having become a piece of perpetual art! It did also fill a bored moment…or two…..even three or four 🙂

Speed sketching at a still life class

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Burlesque Performer/Model – Still life speed sketching class – 15 minute sketch (Colour added later)

Over the Christmas period it was wonderful having family around though it had meant that in the run up to them arriving, it WAS totally necessary to tidy my art and crafts away, as I mainly work on our dining table, otherwise family mealtimes would have been impossible. This wasn’t a problem at first, though after a few days I really needed something to do in the quiet hours of the day. I am not happy sitting doing nothing really for any period of time, so, off I went rummaging in my art cupboard. Whilst looking for some watercolour paper to do some small line drawings I came across a half used pad I had used at a speed sketching art class early last year, which I had forgotten about. I flipped through it and recalled that I had promised myself to do something from the sketches at some point, maybe now was the time!

From the cupboard I also retrieved some Inktense pencils which I hadn’t used before, so they seemed perfect to try on one of these still life sketches. I had no idea how this would turn out but I placed a few coloured pencil marks here and there over the original sketch, took a deep breath and applied a wet paintbrush over the strokes. I must admit I was pleasantly surprised at the vivid colours as the water seeped over the pencilled inks, luckily I had taken a watercolour sketchpad to the class otherwise this wouldn’t have been a good experiment.

Below are a couple more 5 or 10 minute pencil sketches. It really was intensive at the still life class, I think they wanted gut reaction drawing, you certainly didn’t have time to scale and indeed if you blinked in the five minute poses you had no chance as the model would move to another position as the buzzer rang. It was really fun and a good laugh, mostly by the ladies in the room – we had never heard the men so quiet in a class before – We all thought they were a little intimidated by the pretty model. As we all looked over each other’s sketches after the class it was quite noticeable that most of the men had just drawn a couple of the model’s feathers – not the model at all!! 🙂

5 min sketch still life 7

5 min sketch still life 6

10 min sketch still life 5

10 min sketch still life 3

10 min sketch still life 4

 

 

 

Still Life – Van Gogh’s Bedroom – By Me

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Van Gogh’s Bedroom
By Me!

For those of you who have ventured around my site, you will know and see, I do primarily my own thing! Original and of my own imagination. However, every once in a while, like many others before and after me, sometimes you want to see if you can reproduce an old Masterpiece. Above is the classic ‘Bedroom’ of Van Gogh. I did it in pastel and tried to under work and simplify my drawing of the scene as much as possible. It is amazing just how many people have done this very same drawing. I think Vincent would have been overwhelmed that so many people wanted to share in the knowledge of his bedroom contents!! Other Old Masters’ works I have played around with in moments of being uninspired are;

Still Life (Master Compilation Series) -” ‘EAR’, Where’s He Gone?” – Oil Still Life

Master Compilation Series – ‘Cezanne’s “Mount Saint Victoire” overlooks, Renoir “Boating on the Seine” !’ – Oil painting

They were done to add a little twist to recreating others artwork and yet still making them original too!!!

Still Life – “On a Ledge Series” ‘Geranium and Harvey’ – Oil Still Life

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“On a Ledge Series” – Geranium and Harvey!

Today seems to be a day of showing you my art in different mediums. This oil painting was a rerun of the pastel version (compare) Still Life Pastel “On a Ledge Series” – Geranium and Friend Harvey. I can never decide if I like this one or the pastel version more, I think they both have their own appeal for different reasons.

The reasoning and inspiration for this series; Bored and uninspired one day, I stood in my kitchen wondering what I could draw? Whilst wondering I absent mindedly started tidying and rearranging things on the ledge. I’m not one for nice pot ornaments, rather have slightly wacky or weird decorative things around! So, as I now had a disarrayed pile of things I had moved and a clean window ledge – The idea struck me. I could use it as a little staging area for a series of still life pictures!!!

Still Life – ‘Dewdrop on the Anemone’ – Pastel Still Life

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‘Dewdrop on the Anemone’

In the corner of my gravelled garden, I had a little patch of anemone flowers nestling in with a bunch of stray Candy tuft, which I think I can thank the blackbirds for! The birds see no problem in rearranging my garden plant theme in the search for worms and the like.  Anyway, the whole reason for this pastel drawing was the tiny dew drops which seemed to be floating on the budding flower. They seemed to be defying gravity on the curved petal. After observing them I quickly went for my camera, thinking all the time “I bet they have rolled off. when I get Back!” But no, They were still there!! I took the shot, checked the image on my camera, looked back at the flower… and they were gone. They had waited just long enough to be captured for eternity!!!

Still Life – “On a Ledge Series” – ‘Sleepy Monkey and Wooden Duck – Watercolour Still Life

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‘Sleepy Monkey and Wooden Duck’

Above is another in my series of “On a Ledge” paintings. As random things go that live on a window ledge I must say I do like Sleepy Monkey, this painting is the second he got to pose for!  The light, shade and reflections in this picture worked surprisingly well in the watercolours. As the main focus was centred around painting art for children rooms’ in this series, I have been surprised too by the number of adults who have shown much interest in them.

Here is how the idea arose for “On a Ledge Series” for those who have not seen others in the range

Bored and uninspired one day, I stood in my kitchen wondering what I could draw? Whilst wondering I absent mindedly started tidying and rearranging things on the ledge. I’m not one for nice pot ornaments, rather have slightly wacky or weird decorative things around! So, as I now had a disarrayed pile of things I had moved and a clean window ledge – The idea struck me. I could use it as a little staging area for a series of still life pictures!!!

Still Life -“On a Ledge Series” – ‘Sleepy Monkey and Wooden Ducks’ – Oil Still Life

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“On a Ledge Series” – ‘Sleepy Monkey and Wooden Ducks’

Here we are again at that tidy window ledge, with more still life exhibits! The two ducks I pinched (Borrowed) out of my Daughter’s bedroom where their normal duty is to act as bookends and the monkey was from my Son’s room.  He had a jungle theme many years ago.  This particular still life was done in oil paint, though in the future I will post another of Sleepy Monkey and Wooden Duck (Only one duck next time!) painted in watercolour.

Looking again at this picture, I love how tidy my kitchen worktop is!! Maybe I should do more in this series!!! Below is an explanation of how this set of paintings was born for anyone who hasn’t seen others in the series.

Bored and uninspired one day, I stood in my kitchen wondering what I could draw? Whilst wondering I absent mindedly started tidying and rearranging things on the ledge. I’m not one for nice pot ornaments, rather have slightly wacky or weird decorative things around! So, as I now had a disarrayed pile of things I had moved and a clean window ledge – The idea struck me. I could use it as a little staging area for a series of still life pictures!!!