Tag: Turpentine

  • Mirk Wood 2 (Richmond Park)

    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…

  • Abstracts

    Abstracts

    Getting tired of sunny daytime landscapes, I’ve gone the other way inside, or in my garden or at night time to work on abstracts, portraits and night pieces. Light to dark, I feel the landscapes weren’t saying what I needed to say. Too cheery and light for these times. Here is ‘Experiment In Blues’ which…

  • 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…