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Tag Archives: Art
Life drawing. When I close my eyes.
When I close my eyes. Acrylic on prepared wood. 90 x 90cm.The colour range and composition was really thought about on this one. There was going to be a cat in the bottom right. The eyes were closed at the … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic, Art, figurative painting, fine art, Painting, portrait
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Life drawing: Bronzino Night.
A in the manner of Bronzino. Acrylic and pencil on MDF. 40x50cm.Bronzino is one of my favourite painters. A master of flattery, technique, composition and colour. Less Gravitas, more fun than some other painters of the time, with less religious … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic, Art, bronzino, Cupid with Venus, life drawing, national gallery, Painting
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Octavian in Pompeian red
Octavian in Pompeian red. Acrylic on wood with big wooden frame. Painted with a very restricted palette on a Pompeian red ground. I used glazing medium a lot on this. There’s an odd stylisation on this which made another artist … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, Gaius Octavian, life drawing, Painting
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Self portrait 2023 (Winter)
Self Portrait (Winter). Oil on wood panel. 60 x 90cm.This painting was created to enter a portrait competition, after being asked to apply by a researcher. Self portraits are a tough call, you are are invariably going to look rather … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, figurative art, from life, Oil painting, portrait, self portrait
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Mackerel!
Mackerel and lemons for S. Acrylic on MDF. A3.This was painted live. There was a great moment when a spot of blood came of of the upper fish. Still need to eat the fish from the freezer. A very pleasant … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic, Art, fish art, fish portrait, life drawing, Painting
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My Son’s birthday portrait.
A Portrait 2023. Acrylic over glitter on gesso on MDF. Around A5.Painted in an evening.
Imagined Portrait on Red
Imagined Portrait on Red. Acrylic and pencil on MDF board. 50 x 40cm.Originally made at a life class tutored by the fantastic John Close. This painting was constantly tinkered with. as you can see below. Eventually I used a John … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic, Art, figurative art, life drawing, Painting, portrait
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Dreaming of Silver
Dreaming of Silver. Acrylic and pastels over prepared board with glitter. 40 x 50cm.There’s something fun about fighting with a painting surface; glitter does not like to be worked on! Another portrait with a hot red background, another painting with … Continue reading
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Red thoughts.
Red thoughts. Acrylic and pencil over prepared board. 40 x 50cm.As I now have short salt and pepper beard and hair, people automatically think it is a self portrait. Which is interesting. The painting was created in a hour at … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylics, Art, artist, figurative art, fine art, life drawing, portrait, red painting
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The Disappointed.
The Disappointed. Oil on prepared wood. 30 x 60 cm.The model looked a little unhappy, which I amplified and skewed. When someone said she looked a little like an absinthe drinker, I thought to add a hazy still life in … Continue reading
An advert for my portrait work.
I design a quarterly magazine and they had a page to fill, So…
Red Portrait
Red portrait. Acrylic, glazing medium and pencil on board. 40 x 50cm.1 hour in front of the model, 20 minutes at home. The model had a small but powerful pink light on his face. This was fascinating to paint. I … Continue reading
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Composition in Green, Yellow and Red.
Green, Yellow and Red. Still life on a table tennis table. Oil and oil pastels on mdf.This was created as I was teaching art in my studio. I could be distracted by creating this and still be in the room … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, composition, Oil painting, oil pastels, Painting, still life
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Why I spend my Friday nights life drawing
Thought I’d spread the word.
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Tagged Art, drawing, eveningclasses, johnclosearts, lifedrawing, londonart
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The view from the interior
The view from the interior. Acrylics and oil on canvas. 30 x 50cm. May 2021 – November 2022.This painting took a very long time to complete, with a lot of changes. A scene in a stylised manner, with a sense … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, fine art, John close, oil on canvas, Painting
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Sitting in the Light.
Sitting in the Light. Acrylic on board. 30 x 40cm.A two session painting, so, around 6 hours. I was not happy at all after the first session. The sketch was trying to work out what was wrong with the work. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, life drawing, Life model, London art, Painting
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Study / Reality / Reproduction /
Study / Reality / Reproduction. Acrylics on prepared wood. 13″ square.Last Friday night at John Close’s fantastic art class I had the pleasure of painting this scene,In the top left there is a wonderful Grisaille study (with addition of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, caravaggio, John close, life drawing, modbodadrian, Painting, Rubens
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Slapdash
Like everyone else in the world, I have much on my mind at the moment. The work in the last few weeks has got fairly loose and is painted on photographers backdrop paper – a sort of thick non grainy … Continue reading
Many figures, one model.
Many figures, one model. Acrylics and pencil on prepared paper. 97 x 70cm.These were painted over two sessions, around six months apart. Fun how the figures interweaved with each other. Two more paintings with multiple poses. There is a strong … Continue reading
Life paintings on canvas, wood and crumpled paper.
Figure on Canvas. Acrylic on gesso’d canvas. 60 x 40cm.Russel & Chapel always have a great bin of canvas roll ends, from which I chose this piece of canvas primed with gesso. https://www.russellandchapple.co.ukA nice hour of painting with a fan … Continue reading
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