Even though I am at deaths door, I was unceremoniously ejected from my death bed to allow wedding dresses to be tested for worthiness. This is the resulting plague-fuelled scribblings…
If I don’t make it, I leave everything to whoever can grab it the fastest. (don’t look in the second draw)
Pics from tonight…
Learnt tonight that painting on dark backgrounds is not so fun.
Will post the one from the second hour later when its dry. *here it is. Not so keen on this one, but in for a penny, in for a pound.
Smashed it tonight – dead chuffed with these. Haven’t painted at life class for 15 odd years or something daft like that.
Only thing that’s slightly gutting is these took less than an hour a piece, but are so much more alive than the Coldharbour picture I’ve been working on for the last year. Heh ho.
2014 will be the year of finishing the Coldharbour painting…MUST be the year of finishing the Coldharbour painting (for my sanity if nothing else)
Back to Life Drawing class for 2014 for me too. I’ve spent a year getting my head round being a dad, now its time to pick art back up again. Going to try to focus on painting this year.
Happy New Year! :D
still blocking out.
^Gav spitting fire.
Experiment over with this one. Its got to the point where I was starting to make it worse rather than improve it, so time to stop. next up – heavy body acrylics :D
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Chipping away at painting hands. The changing light makes this a nightmare to keep consistent as it gets dark, but no matter…
Thought it’d be fun to post up this painting as it happens, an hour here, a movie there…
Had another bash trying acrylics tonight. It’s not quite what I’m looking for in a wet medium, but still fun. I’m after the feeling of oil paints, without the drying time – thinking of looking into the ‘heavy body’ range from system 3 rather than the original here.
Dave Cropley 