Posts
Eye Candy for Today: Pierre Guillemet portrait
14 hours ago
Showing posts with label oil painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oil painting. Show all posts
Friday, 7 August 2015
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Thursday, 21 August 2014
Friday, 10 January 2014
Friday, 10 May 2013
Monday, 1 April 2013
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Monday, 27 August 2012
Tunnel Visions and Minotaur Dreams
These first two are small oil studies,
exploratory paintings in a new series
called "Tunnel Visions",
hinting at the preciousness of sight,
again exploring boundaries between landscape,
aerial perspective techniques and abstraction.
As James Elkins has described so beautifully in "What Painting Is",
oil paint actively encourages this kind of thing -
a sense of depth and the wallowing in atmospheric effects!
Largely the marks are made with the thumb and fingertips
and occasionally rags.
Painting medium or solvent dissolves and blurs edges and allows for subtle skeins of pigment to criss cross one another and blend.
In the above example, alizarin crimson makes a dramatic note
which could possibly be seen as jarring, but that's the point
really - experimentation.
Below, sap green, white and raw umber are applied more
loosely, but with a similar end in view; that of suggesting a heavily
circumscribed glimpse upon some new realm.
Minotaur Dreams...
Above are two from the "Minotaur Dreams" series,
where similar techniques are used with warm raw burnt and red umber,
deep orange oxides, indian yellow and smoky transparent blacks.
Solvent is sprayed on gently to make the paint more diffuse
and give detailed drip effects in some areas.
Rags are used to expose paler golden staining from the Indian yellow.
deep orange oxides, indian yellow and smoky transparent blacks.
Solvent is sprayed on gently to make the paint more diffuse
and give detailed drip effects in some areas.
Rags are used to expose paler golden staining from the Indian yellow.
White and naples yellow are opaque additions that immediately create
a fog like area - sometimes this gives a sense of far distance
and a blurring of any hinted-at horizon.
and a blurring of any hinted-at horizon.
Below, a Bull of the Woods, with an initial improvised drawing layer
using piped black acylic from a plastic bottle with nozzle
(the type you get in haircolouring kits).
This dries very fast and it's very satisfying to rub oil paint over
and around these contour lines.
That eye keeps recurring. Slightly unnerving...
using piped black acylic from a plastic bottle with nozzle
(the type you get in haircolouring kits).
This dries very fast and it's very satisfying to rub oil paint over
and around these contour lines.
That eye keeps recurring. Slightly unnerving...
Friday, 2 December 2011
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Monday, 19 September 2011
New impasto abstract, "Red Queen In Autumn"
Oil on Canson Figueras sized painting paper, 40 x 36 cm.
... and a couple of details:
These details will lead to further paintings I think, this time.. I need to explore working with broader strokes using larger brushes or ideally larger painting knives.
Loving my new Mameiri Classico Cadmium Red Light.
The title also refers to an Italian "giallo" film, "La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte", English title "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times". It has a brilliant Bruno Nicolai soundtrack which I've been listening to a lot lately. I find a lot of his work autumnal, in an exciting blustery way. Here's a highlight,
Red Queen In Autumn etsy link
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Friday, 20 May 2011
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Flowers of the Wind
Flowers of the Wind
oil on canvas panel, 15 x 11 inches approx.
We've had some breezy days over here lately
and this made me aware of the strength of flowers as well as their delicacy,
how they ride along in this boisterous game.
etsy link
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Laughing Song
oil on canvas board, 16 x 13 "
"When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
When the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing 'Ha ha he!'
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!' "
-William Blake, 'Laughing Song', from 'Songs of Innocence'
A number of interesting musical settings to Blake poems, by Jeff Gillett, are here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JandEGillett#p/u/4/M9pvcWA8fYA
etsy link
Thursday, 21 April 2011
King of the Wood (Beer and Butterflies)
10 by 8 inches, oil on canvas board. 20th April 2011
etsy link
The garden is all a-flutter with orange-tipped and yellow butterflies lately!
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)