Tag Archive | painting
The hardest bit is photographing the bloody thing
A4 sized, acrylic on canvas textured primed paper You see, the problem is not painting the picture, its the photographing of it afterwards when you want to list it on a gallery web site. The actual painting doesn’t look anything like the photograph above, its much darker (deliberately), the greens are much duller apart from [...]
Painting in acrylics, but in a watercolour style
A4 size, acrylic on canvas textured, primed paper Its easy to do of course for acrylic paint is water based, its what makes it so easy to use and its why it should be the first choice of anyone wanting to start to paint for “true” watercolour is such a bitch to master (in fact [...]
On the Easel today…
Another one of a familiar subject but on a larger boxed canvas this time (75cmx50cm), we’ve been here before but the subject sells, what can I do ?
Flamborough
Flamborough, North Yorkshire Acrylic on boxed canvas, 50cmx50cm, available to purchase at ArtGallery.co.uk
Cullercoats Bay
Storm over Cullercoats, acrylic on box canvas, 75cm x 50cm Available to purchase at ArtGallery.co.uk Cullercoats Bay, Northumberland – just up the road from where the Hadrians Walk started (or finished) earlier this year, its a place well known to me and our family, our German Shepherd dog Sam came from Cullercoats, and theres nothing [...]
The Bay Hotel
Switched to acrylics recently for this impression of The Bay Hotel at Robin Hoods Bay, 40cm x 40cm x 3cm box-mounted canvas.
Arncliffe Village – 2008 version
Fifteen years after I did this version I had another go – has the style changed ? I can see where its changed, the technique has changed completely, the earlier one was dry-on-dry, this was mostly wet-on-wet, and I now stray from the “traditional” English watercolour style to now include watercolour pencil highlights. I like [...]
