This may seem like an odd step, I've wiped much of the colour away now and have begun to paint these areas white. They will need several coats of white gesso to get back to pure white again. Why.. you may wonder? To get perfectly saturated colours some, especially yellow, needs to be applied on [...]
Playing around with colours looking for the perfect combination. Bright colours are like white chocolate, too much and it becomes overly sweet. You need some neutrals so the brights can be an accent rather than dominating. I'm quite happy with the colour balance so far but further tweaks will be needed.
Adding colour; initially I'm blocking in areas to see how the colours work. These most probably won't be the finished colours. I'm using a thin layer of paint for two reason, firstly so it will dry quicker and secondly it can be easily removed if needs be. This is quite a game, I'll keep making [...]
Pentimento - derived from the Italian 'pentirsi' meaning to change your mind. Pentimento is a change made by the artist during the process of painting. I make many of these changes, painting over lines and scrubbing an area back to the primed canvas. Here I'm feeling happier with the movement in the painting, however I [...]
I'm sketching out the composition with paint and a brush. A few grid lines give me structure and something to work around. The composition will change from this point most probably several times however I need a starting point, a beginning, and this is it.
It's October '24 and I'm looking at a big white rectangle. Artists often grapple with this stage and I'm no exception.. how to begin? I've applied a thin wash of oil colour giving a base. Later on I'm looking to use the colours of summer fruits, blackberries and currents and the base colour reflects these. [...]
It's October '24. Over the summer months I've painted a series of geometric oil paintings. This is number seven and here I'll show my process from blank white canvas to finished painting. I'm using canvas stretched boards which are ready primed. The solidity of the boards is the huge advantage to a canvas stretched on [...]
