The simplistic meanderings of an unfulfilled pencil doodler who one day hopes to realise his vision of becoming a real artist.
Thursday, 30 August 2012
Charcoal practice - child
Sunday, 12 August 2012
WIP Jessica Ennis in Oils
This is a work in progress of an oil painting I was inspired to paint after watching our wonderful Team GB in the London Olympics and would like to dedicate this piece to one very special olympian gold medalist, Jessica Ennis. Well done girl!
This painting has taken me two days so far and will eventually have a mainly black background with a few bits and bobs from the audience (flashes etc.)
Labels:
Jessica Ennis,
London Olympics,
Oil Painting
Location:
Stannington, Northumberland NE61 6DX, UK
Sunday, 5 August 2012
Oil Painting - Waters Edge
Medium: Oils
Paper: Stretched Canvas
Size: 20" x 16"
Duration: 4 − 6 hours
Well I've finally finished this oil painting (after watching Murray thrash that lump of Swiss Cheese!) which I started painting yesterday. Is it only me, but it is getting really difficult to sketch or paint when the Olympics is on, isn't it?
I'm calling this piece "Waters Edge" and it is a memory of when I went walking with my daughter Jasmine (that's her in the water) earlier in the week. We went to a local beauty spot, down to the Gil, on the river Wansbeck just outside my local town of Morpeth in Northumberland.
Charcoal Drawing - Megan
This whole sketch took me about 2-3 hours to complete and although a fairly nice image, I don't think I captured my niece as well as I wanted to. I ended up using only one stick of charcoal for the whole image, by the time I had finished, that stick had shrunk to the smallest stubble of charcoal you could just about hold!
Though I have really enjoyed this session in charcoals and I expect I'll be visiting my willow charcoal sticks again, soon.
Here is the final image:
Location:
Stannington, Northumberland NE61 6DX, UK
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