¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 As I start Semester 2 of 2nd year I join Painting, having studied Intermedia 1st semester. My 1st task was to get my workspace into some assemblage of order. That was a completely thankless task that took 2 days of my life I will never get back. Looking at these images reminds me that I must paint that back wall and get rid of that hideous chandelier. Tasks for another day.
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¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 Love looking out to The Pentlands and Hillend. In the evening the slope is lit up with twinkling lights.
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¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 Our first project was to create 10works – concentrating on colour
¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 I did a few experiments with alcohol ink
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¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 I don’t like the gold flakes
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¶ 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 This was ink and salt. I love the orange and flash of blue. Not sure I like much else
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¶ 13 Leave a comment on paragraph 13 0 Alcohol ink and salt on Yupo paper – I like the rust and dark blood red. I also like the wee flash of pink popping through.
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¶ 15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 0 This really didn’t work. It was seaweed / wire / collage and ink – disaster
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¶ 18 Leave a comment on paragraph 18 0 Landscape in watercolour and pastel – yuck. Insipid/ uninteresting and totally boring
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¶ 20 Leave a comment on paragraph 20 0 Landscape in pastels – better than the last. Think the yellow and black work better than previous but hills, especially 2nd aren’t right
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¶ 22 Leave a comment on paragraph 22 0 Acrylic on paper – composition is too linear.
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¶ 24 Leave a comment on paragraph 24 0 This was an acrylic paining in my sketch book that I didn’t much like. Revisited it with the addition of pastels (light green/ rust red and yellow) and think it has much improved it in less than 10 min.
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¶ 26 Leave a comment on paragraph 26 0 Not sure about this – was a quick acrylic with pastel. had planned it as an under painting but stopped as think it is interesting as it is . Not sure however about the white strip and if I should do something with it.
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¶ 28 Leave a comment on paragraph 28 0 This was an old painting that I didn’t like. I went back to to see if I could improve I actually think I have made it worse. It feels too much as a slope and not sure about the addition of oranges and yellows. Does it look like two different paintings?
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¶ 30 Leave a comment on paragraph 30 0 Quick watercolour. I covered the ‘rocks’ with tissue paper. Not sure that was such a wise move.
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¶ 32 Leave a comment on paragraph 32 0 I have been doing some experiments with cold wax
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¶ 37 Leave a comment on paragraph 37 0 Trying to be more abstract but finding it hard. I think the gold blobs might need more breaking up
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¶ 39 Leave a comment on paragraph 39 0 This is the largest clod wax and oil painting I have done (103cm x 79cm). I wasn’t sure about it – I do tend to overwork pieces all too often. Anyway I decided to leave it a few days and come back. I actually think it is finished though not sure if it could do with more of a light source.
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¶ 41 Leave a comment on paragraph 41 0 I decided to try and work with brighter colours on a larger scale based on works by The Group of 7. This is oil on board its 130 cm x 83cm. Mentioning earlier how I overwork a project, I am well on the way to achieving this.
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¶ 43 Leave a comment on paragraph 43 0 At this stage it still had some promise I think but I decided that the central bit wasn’t quite right and thought I would block it out and re do – oops…….
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¶ 45 Leave a comment on paragraph 45 0 This is where it is currently. Feck knows what I was thinking with those yellow and red blobs around the tree base. Why I have decided to put all that purple on the rocks is a mystery too. – I am walking away from this one at the moment befor I cause more damage.
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