Tag: Landscape painting
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Box Hill 2022: A Slight Return
Last month before all this heatwave nonsense I went back to Box Hill to do a few pieces, both good pieces – the featured work is a ‘resting’ piece on the hot long walk upto the top of Box Hill, unlike George Meredith I don’t have a donkey to help me get up there! Part…
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Mirk Wood 2 (Richmond Park)
A return at the start of this year to Richmond Park and the area I call Mirk Wood and it saw some New Rules – bigger, more colour, new mediums like the paint sticks, back to oils (sort of), and different butcher types of sketchbooks, sgraffito, and more sculptural ink sketches, very much inspired by…
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Skyscapes
When I was an art student in the 90’s you’d expect me to have been into Hirts and all that, but I actually was just as much into Monet’s Haystacks and the skyscapes and oil sketches of John Constable. The latter, especially his Cloud Studies and Skyscapes left a very big mark on my psyche…
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Prussian Blue abstracts
I am fond of Prussian Blue, I mean really fond of it, and for a while totally obsessed with it’s dark greeny-blue nature and it’s properties, which I’ll talk about later. It was the first modren synthetic pigment, created back in the 18th Century from dried blood (ugh) and is made from oxidised iron salts.…
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More cheap art hacks
I love to save money on art materials, like photography it seems somehow the word ‘artist’ tagged onto something double or triples it’s cost, I mean daylight lights at Cass Arts costing £60-£100 when you can get a cheap desk lamp and a daylight LED bulb for a fraction of the price? They saw you…
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