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This is what I mostly paint, and things have gone pretty well this year. I've not been on Deviant Art so much recently, for which I apologise. Hope to invest some time into uploading a lot of this year's paintings this autumn
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private drawings such as sketches, portraits and various handmade drawings. Due to the fact that it is not possible to hide folders, I decided to use this form of collecting my works
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Lady on the Staircase, Jan 2014
Happy New Year everyone!
This new painting is adapted from two photos by Peter Pedonomou. I've tried to create an elegant, airy composition whilst making the best of the light and detailing. The challenge was the abundance of competing whites, broken up only occasionally by stronger tones from the wood and her hair. This provided some rather tricky issues with contrast. I find this kind of painting challenge easier to deal with in the poor natural light of the winter, when colours are muted and tones stand out better to my eyes.
This large figurative painting took just over 25 hours to complete and will hopefully be one of a short series o
Devious Journal Entry
Busy, Busy, Busy. Now it's Springtime I feel really energised about art, and creativity. Just as well with the annual Cheltenham Art in the Park looming. Hope to put some some more new work in the weeks ahead to share with my DA friends and fellow artists.
Art demo
In a couple of weeks I'm giving an art demonstration to a local art group. It's the third time I've done this kind of thing, and am feeling pretty confident about it. Last time, the room was packed with folk - about 60 people showed up, and I found that I little tough going, trying to keep all those people entertained for two hours while I painted. There's lots to talk about, of course - techniques, paints, styles, and also quite a lot about how artists can make use of the Internet through sites like DA and others. But the main thing is to create something that impresses the audience in less than 2 hours - and given how it takes me about 1
Sales Success
I exhibit in only two places each year - I have a running 'show' in a dental waiting room in my home city of Gloucester, which gets seen by a large number of local people; and I also take part in an annual Art in the Park festival in nearby Cheltenham (which I also help organise and run, too). This year, I enjoyed some success in my painting sales at this exhibition, as well as having a great time meeting with fellow artists and art-loving members of the public. I sold 9 paintings altogether, which was a particularly good year considering the totally crappy weather we've had in Britain this summer (and I use the word 'summer' advisedly), an
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