Progress of landscape from abstracted inspiration to figurative end point in 3 steps

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1. I thought these sand dunes made an interesting pattern when turned upside down. Try it yourself and compare it to the picture below.

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2. I had a stab at turning it into an abstracted landscape with the aid of acrylics and masking tape.

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3. I thought this could be improved and I had another attempt with oils. In the process I played with vertical strokes and enjoyed the rainstorm effect of the top half.

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I’ve submitted the end result to the Clifton Arts Club Summer exhibition today, I’ll let you know how I got on.

Sunday afternoon painting of a Sunday afternoon scene

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Decided to have a paint of my lounge on a drizzly Sunday afternoon. I’ve not attempted an interior scene like this before. Pleased with the colour mixing and the dog. Interestingly it looks really disappointing online. Usually the most shockingly bad picture looks presentable online, i can’t work out why the opposite is true in this case.

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Sunflowers

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I entered some pictures into a Nailsea Arts Week festival exhibition this weekend. It was at the Tythe Barn which is a great building. Thanks to Bee and Anne for organising it. I took a picture from the bedroom wall of some Sunflowers which was a bit of an exercise in oil pastels and someone bought it. It took me by surprise as I realised I hadn’t taken a photo of it when I found it was gone. There’s a lesson there.