Tag: Home Park
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Mynktober / Inktober Day 9-16
I feel like after more than two weeks I am hitting my stride with my version of Inktober called Mynktober. The random word generator did provide some difficult prompts for these weeks being abstract or interestingly vague – cf. ‘Routine’, ‘Disorder’ and ‘Pressure’ but I think I rose to the challenge despite the weather being…
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Parklife 1: Those By Ice Houses Should Draw Cranes
Let’s go hand in hand to look at the park life as since The River Ban I’ve been working a lot in Home Park and Bushy Park, adjacent but very different deer parks. First up is a revisit to the Ice House in Home Park which has been a regular subject for years – but…
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Inktober Week 2
The second week of Inktober – and it’s a difficult week with some rather irritatingly fantasy themed prompts and now the shiny newness is over I’m struggling to juggle things. Not so much fatigue, more that 2-3am ‘do I really have to do this?’ angst which I solved by telling myself yes you bloody well…
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The Golden Wall
No, not a local Chinese but a watercolour of Home Park, with the setting sun hitting the brick wall (near the Ice House in fact). A landscape tree portrait, it even has a bench! Mixed feelings about this one, posting it here as a reminder to not overwork or rework things…First version had some issues,…
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Swan and Crane oil
I think my oils have come light years since July although I’ve not posted them until now (and in fact I am waiting for two of them to dry so I can take pictures). There are a few reasons for that, one is just practice, but also using better and bigger canvas board and materials…
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Dead Tree #2
I said I had painted a lot of dead trees! We’re not even finished yet… This was a piece painted over a few days, both very stormy and threatening rain. I did the watercolour and it got dark, came back a few days later as I felt it was incomplete and sod’s law, someone had…
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