Work in progress - 16" x 20" - Soren Larsen - with guidance from a photo in a brochure.
Latest efforts first
2010
The first two are work in progress!
Work in progress - 16" x 20" - Soren Larsen - with guidance from a photo in a brochure.
2010-04-14 - 12" x 24" - Poppies 2 - under guidance - painted to match a large painting of Trudies. Sue did one too, which is better.
Size 26" x 13" - Completed March 2010 - From a small photo of a painting - with guidance.
Coverack, from a photograph, started in 2009 but put finishing touches in February 2010 - under guidance
12" x 16" - An attempt at Maria Callas - finished July 2009 - copied from an instruction book on 'Portraits'. I ended up doing my own thing, which is better than the original but sadly not the same likeness.
Glasson Regatta 2006 - painted from a photograph. Finished June 2009
Finished 13th March 2009: Based on or copied from: Windward Latin Sails Artist: Jaume Laporte
Finished December 2008: Based on Pino's Angelica
The last painting we did in a large class. It needs a lot more work but as I'm doing this for pleasure I've decided not to do any more to it, February 2010
Our next series of five two hour sessions started at the beginning of May 2008. For this one I've illustrated the state of the board at the end of each session. Click on the small pictures to see a larger one.
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Our cousins had a scantilly clad watercolour that I liked so I photographed it, mirrored it and used my grandson's toy epidiascope to project it on to the board and drew round the outline of the basic shapes. It's 310 x 410 mm.
I painted the background and a week later finished the painting in an afternoon.
Our next series of five two hour sessions started at the beginning of May 2008. For this one I've illustrated the state of the board at the end of each session. Click on the small pictures to see a larger one.
Our fourth painting, 762 x 408 mm. I say our because we all painted the same picture although as you can imagine they all turned out different. Another five session series starting in February 2008.
We didn't have a photo to base this one on and Peter changed the direction, composition and tone of the picture every week. We had to work on it at home and I'm not happy with it yet.
Our second series of only five sessions this time, was in the autumn of 2007, and my third painting, 410 x 310 mm, is the result above.
We were to have had another series before Christmas but sadly, John, who owns the studio - it's a room above his shop, lost his wife, so Peter cancelled the lessons out of respect for John.
This is the second one, about four two hour sessions.
We ran out of time and had to finish this at home. I didn't like this picture at first but it's grown on me.
They were both done on our first series of eight sessions starting in February 2007.
In spring of 2007 we started to go to oil painting classes. Michael was really intersted in water colours but these classes were available at a studio half a mile down the road at Earnshaw Bridge; so we decided to have go.
We were assured that whatever our ability we'd be delighted with the results as so far everyone had been. I didn't believe them but it turned out to be true!
Above is my first painting, 508 x 406 mm. Took three, perhaps four, two hour sessions.
The teacher, Peter Clayton, gives us a photograph. We draw six squares on the photo and then on the board and using our judgement rough out the shapes in pencil.
He tells us which colours to mix and which area to apply them too.
We paint wet-on-wet as the painting develops.