Beauty in the Mundane

Over at my friends Martha’s blog An Artists Journal there were some lovely photos that martha took of some decaying industrial buildings. I have been meaning to take some photos of just one such decaying site that I pass nearly everyday,the site is waiting to be redeveloped into flats and residential but `I [...]

Painting on Cardboard

10×7ins
Painting on cardbourd is interesting and gives rise to different experiences and perspectives. you can see the cardboard and this gives off a worn effect like a old wall.
When I was at art school there was plenty of cardboard around and this was a usefull at the time.
This image was painted with Acrylic

Ben Nicholson

This is a delightfull image by Ben Nicholson  let us just enjoy its simplicity for its own sake and not with anything else

John Fowles on Pollock

Been reading John Fowls the JournalsVolume 1
For a entry dated 9th November 1958
Whitehitchapel Exhibition on Pollock

Jackson Pollock Exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery.Great wad-sized canvases dribbled,splashed,splashed with colour.Dozens of eminently seriouse people staring at them. Pollock”s artistic qualities seem fairly clear -now and then a then a nice sense of colour (and often,not) and a [...]

William Trost Richards (1835-1905)

This Striking painting was painted be the American painter William Trost Richards and shows Lands Land in Cornwall at its most dramatic.
You can almost feel the spray of the sea in this painting and I like the golden light the painter achieves,
I shall certainly be returning to this artist again as he paid 3 or [...]

Messing about with Paint

Have been messing about with this 6′x4′ canvas. It had layers on already and i have been selecting different parts with colour and diluting with water using a water spray and letting it dry. I have cropped the photo a bit .It is looking interesting.

Wondering Wednesday

A walk along Langstone foreshore always produces interesting photos as this shot of a close up of a old railway sleeper now protecting the shore.

This could be used as a green abstract painting or indeed the basis for any abstract.

Going back up the Lane, looking backtowards the shoe. I always like this view and the [...]

Two Ships

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Brittany Ferries going to France from Southsea.

A very different kind of ferry, very much a old workhorse type of affair that travels from Ryde to Portsmouth and back everyday.
looking towards Gosport in this shot.

Langstone

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A photo of Langstone that I took yesterday but did not get shown.

Degree Show News

I like this arrangement of paintings, we have been given our space for the degree show and i am pleased as it is in a good position.
the event is getting closer and the studio cleaning and preparation gets under way net week.
I leave you with another painting which is growing on me and is back [...]