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I'm always interested in the quick watercolour sketches that people produce and often envy their ability to produce loose, quick and good looking paintings with seeming ease. I struggle with that. Often, my paintings start loose, and then I load them up with detail as it goes on. Perhaps I don't work wet enough on... Continue Reading →
I've recently continued my journey of watercolour painting after being inspired by the art of French Impressionist Adolphe Valette. The odd thing is that Valette was traditionally an oil painter. He dabbled in watercolours but my inspiration came from his oil paintings of industrial Manchester. India House, Manchester - Adolphe Valette. Credit: Manchester Art Gallery... Continue Reading →
A short, personal view on the Royal Academy of Arts' In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s exhibition.
'New Moon' and 'Full Moon' are two minimalist acrylic paintings I have recently produced...
I recently bought myself a set of acrylic paints - red, yellow, blue, white and black - with the intention of creating some larger paintings for my Mapping Suprematism project. I also thought it would be a good opportunity to gain more experience with colour mixing by working directly from the primaries...
Inspired by the last futurist painting I created, I have now completed this train painting. The process of start to completion went through a few more phases than usual. I tend to create as I go for the majority of my artwork with very little planning beforehand. However, this time, I started with some very rough initial sketches to explore the different ways I could style the train.
A few weeks ago, I stumbled across the Russian contemporary artist Georgy Kurasov. I liked the way he fitted the form of the object being painted into geometric shapes. As a result, I've been inspired to try my own, albeit much simpler, piece.
Following on from the Smugglers' Tower painting last month, I wanted to try another landscape. The original plan was to paint either a mountain or desert scene and, like the Smugglers' Tower painting, give it a fantasy background history.
I've recently been inspired by J.M.W. Turner's watercolour paintings, so I decided to attempt his style myself. Turner used a technique of extreme layering in his paintings allowing him to make minute changes...
The above painting, Streamliner Through City, started off as an attempt to be bolder and less realistic with colour in an attempt to mix up my colour style...
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