23 March 2018
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My final piece from the Observation to Abstraction class added another colour to the previous palette of Pthalo Green, Permanent Rose and Transparent Orange: Peach Black. Apparently this was originally produced from burnt peach stones and it is a warm, … Continue reading
22 March 2018
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The third of my recent Observation to Abstraction paintings changed things up a gear but adding a third colour – Transparent Orange – to the palette. There isn’t anything that makes use of raw orange in this piece (or raw … Continue reading
21 March 2018
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In my second painting from the Observation to Abstraction session, I was using the same limited palette of Pthalo Green and Permanent Rose but the result is quite different. There is still an element of cartoon but it has pushed … Continue reading
20 March 2018
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The first painting I did at last week’s Observation to Abstraction session was using a very limited palette – just Pthalo Green and Permanent Rose. Both are intense colours but they can produce a reasonable range between them. For this … Continue reading
18 March 2018
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I have now uploaded the watercolours from Friday’s Observation to Abstraction art class to my Flickr site: expect a series of pictures over the next few days. The particular challenge for this set was that all the images were quite … Continue reading
17 March 2018
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Yesterday was the third and final session of this term’s Observation to Abstraction series, taught by Ella Clocksin. If you click on the image above, you can view it larger on Flickr and also see the individual sketches. As always, … Continue reading
5 March 2018
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When I got home yesterday afternoon, I carried out my plan of doing another painting from the same sketch. Same source and same paper but my tubes of watercolour, brushes and general painting set up: I used a limited palette … Continue reading
3 March 2018
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Here is a painting I finished off this morning as part of my home work for Ella Clocksin’s Observation to Abstraction course: I’d done drawings of the objects on top of a bedside cabinet, one while seated and another while … Continue reading
18 February 2018
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That is the first painting of the afternoon from Friday’s Observation to Abstraction session. If you saw yesterday’s sketches, you’ll see that I was working from the same position in the room. Now we had a palette of watercolours to … Continue reading
17 February 2018
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Looking back at the drawings from yesterday, I was trying to work out which one to pick for the blog and then it struck me that I could pick all of them: We started with a ten minute sketch of … Continue reading