Studio spring cleaning

The cleaning in the studio is going well but slow as I’m sorting through all the UFP’s, I keep come across experiments that I did a will back and I can now see where I can expand on them and take them in a different way. This pile is getting very large.

The garden is a different story and an on-going one ha-ha but it will not beat me.

Untitled

Acrylic paint 

10" x 12" Boxed Canvas

Marks and Mediums

Just made some plexi plates to test out what I will get using different acrylic mediums and tool

I have used different mediums by there self and combined with each other plus been try different tools to apply it and work into it to see what marks I will get when it come to making a print of the of them.

Now I have to wait for them to dry properly and then find the time to make the print this is so exciting.

Santapaw's Helper

Well that’s Christmas over with for another year it has been a good one, what with having to cook a full Christmas dinner for 15 people and 3 dogs. All sitting in the back garden in the sun eating to much and drinking to much a good time was had by all Ho Ho Ho.

I did Santapaw’s helper on Christmas eve.

"Santapaw's Helper"

Acrylics on canvas (20"x 24")
December 2009

Now its time to look to 2010

Happy face

I have just finished this painting in time to get it ship down to Wellington for the end of term exhibition.

"Kenny"
Acrylics on canvas (20"x 24")

June 2009

The year is on the move

Wow it April 1st, this year ha defiantly got a gallop on its just going so fast,Well today I got stuck in and finished the abstract painting I have been working on it is in the style of Ben Nicholson

Acrylics on canvas (16”x 20”)

March 2009

Would not dry haha

Just finished these two flow paintings the first one I tried I experimented with adding stuff to the paint to make it dry slower and flow freer you could say the I achieved my goal in as much that the acrylic paint did not dry for 4 weeks

“Reds, Green and Yellow on white”
Acrylics on canvas (16”x 20”)
March 2009
“Blue, Red, Yellow and white on Blue”
Acrylics on canvas (16”x 12”)
March 2009

Dog's Life

This is an acrylic painting i just finished it is of a golden Lab called Hannah it's from a photo ref for D/S

"Hannah the Lab"

Acrylics on canvas (16"x 20")

March 2009

Flood painting

I have been experimenting with colour and flow of paint. With the right combinations of colour they can turn out bright and fun there is a very random out come to the finished painting, but even using acrylic paint they can still take quite a wile to dry.

Flow Ab "Red, Black and white"

Acrylics on canvas (16"x12")

March 2009

Flow Ab "Red and Green, Purple and White"

Arcylics on canvas (16"x12")

March 2009

Wednesday afternoon are back to normal my art group has started up again. It was nice to catch up with some old faces that I have not seen since the end of last term did not get a lot of work done in the 3 hours plenty of talking. Walking around and laughing I did get to try something.

Roses are Red

Ok it February 14th time for all those chubby little babies with bows and magic arrows to be out and about looking for the unaware, Valentines day were love is in the air. Me be being a nice guy decided to do a painting for my wife, so yesterday I shut myself in my studio to get on with it, my wife worked it out that I was doing some thing for her, I have never had so many cups of tea made and brought down to my studio on the pretence of trying to see her painting.

Got to love her for trying.

Happy Valentines Day

“Roses are Red”
Acrylics on ( 8”x16”) Stretched Canvas
Feb 2009