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Tag Archives: Oil painting
The third portrait.
Sebastian in the sun. Oil on wood, 41 x 41cm.This painting looks very different in different lights.Notice how there is a warm cast on the left and a cold cast on the right. Most of the time painting was spent … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, oil on wood, Oil painting, portrait, portrait commissions
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Under a bridge in the rain, Monsal Trail.
Under a bridge in the rain, Monsal trail. Summer 2021. Oil (and rain) on canvas. 40 x40cm.A plien air painting! Quite a situation, stung by stinging nettles, umbrella in free hand, brush in the other, children abseiling from the bridge … Continue reading
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Tagged impressionism, landscape painting, monsal trail, Oil painting, plien air
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S & L in the summer.
S & L in the summer. Painted August- October 2021. Oil on canvas. 76 x 102 cm.This painting was a joy to make. I’ve tried to keep the joy, energy and fun of being young. The colours are intense and … Continue reading
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Zoom / Real Still Life With Mirror
Zoom / Real Still Life With Mirror. Oil on canvas board. 50x40cm. Sunday 31/01/2021. 2 hours. Along with some artist friends I painted still life from a screen on Zoom. Infront of this screen I placed on a book a … Continue reading
Portrait of R looking up.
R looking up. Oil on gesso on wood. 13″ square.This is the hardest painting to photograph. It really does look different in real life. The work has more depth and presence. It will be interesting to see whether it gets … Continue reading
Life drawing. Presence.
Past & Present (SLG x2). Acrylic, pencil and oil on prepared paper. 100 x 70cm.The initial painting was in acrylic, then overpainted in oils thinned with liquin. Again the feeling of the models presence was important. Oil paint gives a … Continue reading
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Self Portraits 2020.
This canvas I paint over every few years with a self portrait. Good practice, plus, with photography being what it is, there is still a record of the last version. Self portraits usually look a bit odd, an intense stare, … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorian Gray, life drawing, Oil painting, self portrait, Sketches
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Red painting 3. The Mysteries.
The Mysteries. Oil on canvas. 90cm square.I think that’s pretty much it. The ideas behind this work were:• To make something on a very red ground after doing a few paintings on very blue backgrounds• To make a work that … Continue reading
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Tagged fine art, Mary Ward centre, Oil painting, Painting, Pompeii
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The Succession.
The Succession. Oil on Canvas. 1x1m. 08.05.19. The work is about representing living people on canvas. The real model, the reflection of the model and the Artist reflected in a mirror, the skull (a remnant from an earlier painting on … Continue reading
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Tagged figurative art, London painting, Mary Ward centre, Modern art, Oil painting
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Life painting. One Sunday afternoon.
Sunday afternoon. 3 hours of oil painting on canvas. The skull wasn’t that near the model in the studio. The colours seemed to work well, though I found oil painting problematic, with it’s longer drying time and buttery texture. The … Continue reading
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Claire in the afternoon.
This a portrait of a friend that I’ve been creating on and off for around a year. Everybody (including myself) seems very happy with it. There’s a earlier practice painting as well, shown below. If you’d like to know more … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, Oil painting, Painting, portrait
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Hemingway 5. Different views.
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Hemingway 2. Work in progress.
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Tagged commisssion, Ernest Hemingway, fine art, London painting, Oil painting, Painting, portrait, work in progress
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Life drawing: Oil & canvas
The last of this year’s Friday night classes at the wonderful Mary Ward Centre. Using oils with a time limit can be tricky. The results can be a muddy mess. A solution was to lay on the paint and then … Continue reading
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Blue PandA portrait in oils.
A double portrait in oils. For a friend’s anniversary. The source material was a dark photograph taken from a concert. Made to go with a similar painting I’d created 10 years before as a wedding present. It was handed over to … Continue reading
Life drawing 1. Exercises.
Back into another session of life drawing at the wonderful Mary Ward Centre. Nice to see some familiar faces. Drawn with both hands at once on an A3 cardboard envelope. 10 minutes. The other side of the envelope. A drawing … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, fine art, life drawing, Mary Ward centre, Oil painting
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Works worked on.
Aerial Remembers Acrylic, conté pastel, pencils, Japanese ink and lots of varnish. May 2016. 70x100cm. What happens after the action of the Tempest? Now free from obligation, what would Aerial do? A Reflection Oils, acrylics, conté pastel, pencils and varnish. May 2016. … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic, fine art, life drawing, Oil painting, pencils, The Tempest
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Life drawing 13.05.16. ‘D’ in oils.
I’m trying to make sure you have the feel of a real person in a real room. The stylisation happens in accidentally. With the range of hues, positioning of the figure and range of brushstrokes, this has normal, academic feel. There … Continue reading
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Tagged expressionism, Expressionist, fine art, life drawing, Mary Ward centre, Oil painting
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Life drawing 06.05.16. ‘A’ The lady dancer in oils.
This week oil paint and paper met with a lot of non toxic turps substitute. The interaction was sometimes frustrating but gives these works a different feel than the usual acrylic marks. The model, ‘A’ is fantastic and has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Expressionist, fine art, life drawing, Life painting, Mary Ward centre, Oil painting
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Self Portrait 40, 42, & 45.
The end product. Oil paint on canvas, painted wooden frame. This has been sent in to the Ruth Borchard self-portrait prize. The work 40, 42, & 45 was painted over the last 5 years, with a nod to Dorian Gray. … Continue reading
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Tagged colour, fine art, Oil painting, Ruth Borchard, self portrait
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