When I finished the last realm painting it was suggested to me that there should be a third one, to accompany the other two, so that the three of them could be hung together. Not a small request at all to achieve! I had a think about it and decided that for me the best […]
A few weeks ago I realised I wanted a ‘wow painting for my lounge wall, and mentioned it to my husband, since the choice would affect him as much as me, as we’d both be looking at it! I came up with a few ideas and told him my suggestions, and then decided on one, […]
It was probably a couple of years ago I first heard of acrylic pouring painting, and was intrigued with the idea of it…as I’ve been using watercolour pours for the basis of painting for years and love the affect of it. I know its not an easy technique to learn too, as its down to […]
I thought I’d learnt a lot about art, and painting in the years I’ve been doing it.. I didn’t think there was much I didn’t know about it. But I have recently, in the last couple of weeks, learnt that there is a new technique that I was unaware of. When I was shown it, […]
Its that time of year again when I have an important painting to finish but think that with the best will in the world, its not going to get done before Christmas. Its not a commission so there is no time restriction on it, but I don’t want to rush it and ruin it, but I […]
I’ve been working on the acrylic painting of the tasteful erotic couple most of this week inbetween doing other things of a more domestic nature as and when they arrived. So its not been non stop all of the week. I know I have a specific way of working when I paint and that is to […]
Right, I can tell you more about the erotic abstract now….. I was happy that I had finished it the first time, but the woman who I had done it for found it confusing in parts, and I realised over subsequent conversations with her that I had probably made it overly complicated in trying to […]
It’s been another frustating week. The house sale has been pushed back another couple of weeks. I stand the chance of losing the house I’m after and am having to placate vendors, purchasers, solicitors, estate agents and concerned friends and aquaintances. Whilst trying to carry on with my life whilst half of my posessions are packed […]
The Burton library exhibition isn’t abandoned totally. Infact I think I’ll be able to put quite a few pictures in. It’s just that I won’t be able to do as much for it as I had hoped for, originally. But that’s ok. And I’ll also be able to hang some of the more acceptable erotic […]
I’ve come home with blue fingers, and that’s always a good sign of an enjoyable day. Well actually, they’re blue, red, yellow, purple and white fingers, and I’m hoping that it’ll wash off with some success…… I’ve been to an art workshop today, painting contemporary landscapes in acrylics with a palette knife, so very messy and […]
Well this is a meeting of international proportions….. 🙂 First we have an English fanny – Queynte 20 – depicted in subtle muted tones but still painted in acrylics. Its a fanny I’ve already painted, but it has such interesting shapes I thought I’d see what it looked like if I just tried a basic […]
Well following on from my last blog post – it seems I’ve got a great success with the “Hot stuff” painting – and the person it is directly aimed at has fallen in love with it……… for all the right reasons! So I’m a very happy bunny! YAY!!!! And so on to other things – […]
At the beginning of this year I painted the “Living Flame” painting for a woman buyer in America. It was a style of painting I’d never done with this effect before and I loved the way it progressed. I’d used the “glazing” effect for landscapes and still life paintings but wasn’t totally hooked on it […]
I’ve been working on the erotic couple in the living flame style of painting all week, solidly. It took me ages to find a pose I was happy with, and then I drew it out, and checked that I was happy with the drawing. Started the painting……………. was happy with the way it was going, […]
After the success of Nitebyrds rainbow Queynte, I thought I’d go straight onto the next one but try something a little bit different this time with the colours. And keep them to as few tones as possible within the basic colour scheme. The original idea was to try it with three tones – cream, pale […]
