“Random Emergings…of Black” © Copyright CAREN TAYLOR 2017 From my New Series of Doodle Abstract Cubism Style Artworks

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“Random Emergings…of Black” Copyright Caren Taylor 2017                                               Another of my pencil crayon doodles on 20″ x 16 inch textured watercolour paper

A new piece for my exciting series..entitled “Random Emergings…of Black” A unique quirky Original pencil crayon abstract These pieces I find so relaxing to do and never know what their outcome will be until I’m finished?! Seems there are still many more random things in my head awaiting space somewhere on new artworks  Hope you enjoy exploring what I hope will twist and turn your eye…wondering…it’s a…. this way…Or…If looked at another way…it’s a…..!! Lot’s of changing perceptions and perspectives 🙂

Bleach painting – Original Imaginary landscape

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Bleach painting imaginary landscape.  Some bleach paintings are available in My Etsy shop!   Carenscanvasandcraft                               

This is another experimental bleach painting using nothing more than imagination, diluted domestic bleach, black A3 card and a little brush, or painting in reverse! By removing degrees of the black colour from the card with different concentrations of bleach I created a ‘dreamy moonlit loch’ Removing the black colour has left a greenish tinge to the lightened areas, which I think, softens the picture nicely. 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Bleach painting – Mysteries of the forest – Eyes are watching YOU! (No.3)

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Painting with bleach – Available on My Etsy Shop CARENSCANVASANDCRAFT for a limited time!

Having now got into the swing of the New year I feel the creations queue growing inside me and its definitely time to get on and let them out. Having completed the first A3  sized bleach painting of a forest for Ronnie I carried on and did another for my Etsy shop. Although they are all of a similar scene (from my imagination) each one is also unique and original, it would be impossible whilst using bleach and water to replicate an exact copy and so they are more of a series by that respect.

Painting with bleach is quite exciting and very experimental as you have to wait for it to dry out before knowing the result and whether or not it needs reworking and so the process goes on, painting in reverse, ‘removing’ the picture onto the paper, until I am happy with the effect.

Bleach on this particular black card has produced a green tinged effect to the scene (which hasn’t been picked up very well by my poor photographic efforts with my little Fujifilm camera) which I must admit I quite like now. It turns out to be less harsh and somehow more mysterious than a stark white on black!

 

More bleach paintings coming soon :-)!

Bleach painting – Following up on a promise!

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Ronnie’s forest bleach painting

After showing an experimental imaginary bleach painting on WordPress.com last year I was asked by our family friend, Ronnie, if I would do a larger version for him. As everything art and craft wise became quite hectic in the run up to the holidays, I said it would be in the new year – and here it is as promised.

This painting was done on standard A3 black card, (double the size of the first one) using nothing more than a little brush, domestic bleach and water with a touch of imagination!

After having a preview of the larger version, Ronnie was ”Really pleased with it!” my Mum informed me and now it is in a glazed frame on its way to be hung in his apartment.

Thanks for your continuing support Ronnie! 🙂 (I know he reads my blog!!!)

 

 

‘ “SCENE” From a Bench Series’ – Tuscan Ruin – Oil Pastel

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‘ “SCENE” From a Bench Series’ -‘Tuscan Ruin’

In this Oil Pastel drawing I wanted the viewer to be aware there was a backdrop to the picture but for the main focus to be within the ruin and of how the light entered it and cast shadows, light and shade. The image should project, hopefully, a sense of a hot summer’s day, even becoming hotter into the middle distance until a haze is cast over the far flung mountains. Pure imagination!

This series of pictures have all been done using Oil Pastels and in each one I have placed a Bench. Always the same bench but sometimes I’ve flipped it around to suit the angle of the scene. All the pictures in this series are from my imagination and are drawn to give maximum illusion to the perspective of the landscape around and create as much depth as possible in the small images. Hence the series title, ‘ “SCENE” From A Bench’ ! 

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!!!

Landscape – ‘Forever Poppies’ Oil painted Imaginary Landscape

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‘Forever Poppies’

I think I went into poppy overload in this imaginary oil painting! I wanted to create a landscape of vivid, vibrancy. With a suggestion of an eternal swathe of flowers meandering gently into the distance, whilst the foreground offers some degree of texture to the flowers and intermingling grasses.

Landscape – Watercolour (Sort of!) Landscape

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Helping my Mum to paint!

This painting was done in an attempt to help my mum to paint. After years of seeing what I had produced in artwork and craft she surprised me one day by asking if I would show her how to paint. From being little my Mum had shown absolutely no erring toward creativity. Naturally, after I had gotten over the shock of her request, I said I would at least try to help. I added, ‘maybe we should start off simple!?’ To which my Mum produced a picture very similar to the one above and said, ‘This is what I want to paint!’ “Arrrrgh” was my first thought followed by Arrrrrgh, then Ok. Even though I am self taught, where to begin to show a beginner? I decided on a step by step approach – literally I draw a line here now you do it and so on. Eventually after Five hours of this we both had a picture. I have to admit if you held them (my Mum’s attempt and mine) at the end of the street and walked to the other end, looked back – they were similar!!! We painted them using just children’s round block paints (£1.99 painting set my Mum had bought), not even real watercolours. My Mum would not ever allow a second viewing of her artwork even to me. Though I never considered it to be of any great creation of mine, as it was based largely on a picture my Mum had brought to copy from, my Husband really liked the end result, so being a cheap skate, he got it for his birthday in a frame!

Abstract – Shifting Scenes, My ”Forgotten Dreams of Crimson” – Pencil Crayon Abstract

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Shifting Scenes in My ”Forgotten Dreams of Crimson”

This play around doodle was done whilst scribbling in another of those ‘bored moments’ of “I don’t know what I want to do today?!” Rather than use black and white, as I have done in some of my other abstracts in this section. I wanted to see how I would feel about one in colour? To be honest, I still don’t know, I think I prefer the black and whites. Though I do like looking around the whole image and still finding things I don’t remember drawing. When I do one of these abstracts it is never planned and I restrict myself from holding the picture at arms length until I’ve finished. That way I think I get to explore it as much as others would on first seeing it. Whilst the picture is just made up of random shapes shaded, it is a voyage of discovery in finding little figure type people within the shapes. Simply, by the right hand bottom corner, having a little perspective, it made me think about the theatre and moving background scenes. Hence, the thoughts before the title!