Saturday, April 14, 2012

Lemon in and out of the bag - SOLD -

This is my second painting involving fruit in and out of a plastic bag. As a painter this is interesting since it involves a variety of brush stokes - some very soft and other very crisp.
This allow the fruit to be seen in focus or out of focus depending on its position in regard to the bag.

Voici ma deuxieme peinture ayant pour sujet le traitement d'un fruit dans un sac en plastique ou en dehors du sac. En adoucissant les marques du pinceau, on peut donner l'illusion du fruit dans le sac.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

A male study


A 45 minutes pose of a male model. This was done in acrylic on paper and I was very free and bold with the colours.However I did respect the different tones of the complexion .


Cette peinture est faite a l'acrylic sur papier et bien que les couleurs semblent hardies j'ai respecte les variances de ton de la chaire .

Friday, March 9, 2012

Horror!

I have just re-read my post from yesterday and I see an awful spelling mistake has crept in ! Read " we LIVE " instead of "we leave".
Must watch my steps - that's the problem with ageing...

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Water

I am working on the theme of "water" for an exhibition at the end of May.  I did not want to feature anything too obvious like the sea (we leave close to it) or rivers or  reflections on water. I believe there will be quite a lot of those. Being a still life painter I came to the conclusion that this is what I do best and therefore set up this composition. Here is where I am after the first 3 hours of work.

Cette composition est pour un projet d'exposition avec pour theme "l'eau", premier resultat donc une ebauche apres 3 heures de travail

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Yesterday landscape -

This was worked from a photogaph taken yesterday on a walk along the coast of the Cotentin. A lovely day and I have tried to capture the light and I feel I have succeeded, so I am pleased with myself !

Cette peinture est faite d'apres une photo d'un paysage le long de la cote du Cotentin, lors d'une promenade hier apres-midi. Belle lumiere que j'ai tente de representer et pense avoir reussi, donc assez contente de moi !

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Less is more




I have found this painting that I did last summer
I love the different greys and looking at the final work now I beleive I should have stop here.


J'ai retrouve cette peinture faite l'ete dernier et j'aime les differents teintes de gris de cette peinture et en comparant avec tableau final je pense maintenant que j'aurais du m'arreter la.




Sunday, February 5, 2012

A new experiment

This painting is done by floating indian ink on wet paper which allows some of it to diffuse or spread.
The white areas were done using art masking fluid - a special gum which works as a reserve (this has to be done before wetting the paper.)
When the work is finished you peal off the gum and reveal the white part .
This is my interpretation of a 19th century oil painting from a black & white photocopy.

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Cette peinture est faite en faisant flotter de l'encre de chine sur papier mouillé ce qui a permis  a l'encre  de diffuser et de se propager.
Les zones blanches ont été effectuées en utilisant un fluide de masquage - une gomme spéciale qui fonctionne comme une" réserve" (cela doit être fait avant de mouiller le papier.)
Lorsque le travail est terminé, on retire la pellicule de gomme revelant ainsi  la partie blanche.
Ceci est une interpretation  d' une peinture à l'huile du 19ème siècle en se servant d'une photocopie noir et blanc.