Tag: brushwork

  • The Duck  – Plein Air #3

    The Duck – Plein Air #3

    Each new plein-air oil upto this one is progressing at a rapid rate, although I cannot promise to keep it up (in fact the next one kind of breaks the run, but I’ve not finished it so it might get better). This was an experiment in Liquin Impasto, which as well as an impasto medium…

  • My First Self Portrait in Oils

    My First Self Portrait in Oils

    When the weather isn’t good enough for painting dead trees I have been experimenting with a medium I did once in my ‘A’ level then never touched again – oil painting. I need to be able to work all year round, and maybe get commissions so oil painting is a massive scary new frontier for…

  • Life Drawing #3

    Life Drawing #3

    It seems the honeymoon period is over, and this was an odd week where I wasn’t happy with anything I did…some failures which was to be expected, happens occasionally (not that I post most of them here!) but not many successes either, it all seemed a bit, well, meh. More Posca pens (Cultpens: yay! Gave…