This an Instagram ten-day challenge! I am writing these posts to ‘flesh out’ my theme called: The Colour of Landscape Day 7 I like close-up surface interest. I became very experimental in oils, so in addition to my love of colour and glazing, I added text and collage to my landscapes. Here you can see some maps of the Ridgeway are embedded into the landscape. Thank you Fillingdon Fine Arts for finding a new owner for this painting. This is the first painting that had text added to … [Read more...]

This a a ten-day burst of blogs! I am writing these posts to 'flesh out' my Instagram 10-day challenge. I have decided on a theme called: The Colour of Landscape Day 6 There are so many ways to start a painting, but I find the most successful ways that work for me is to either use a tonal underpainting - usually Ochre and umber, or to use a colour beginning. In The Black Pine, I have shown the 'first pass' which is a colour beginning. This enables me to use glazing and impasto, turbid areas … [Read more...]

I am currently taking part in a ten day challenge to publish posts on a theme for 10 consecutive days. I am giving more detail about my posts on the blog. My theme is The Colour of Landscape. In After an introduction of my background (Days 1-3) I have started showing the process of my journey back to my oil painting roots. (Even though I had never painted landscapes!) Day 5: One has to revisit basics in order to move forward, so I needed to go back to more naturalistic compositions and … [Read more...]

I am currently taking part in a ten day challenge to publish posts on a theme for 10 consecutive days. I am giving more detail about my posts on the blog. My theme is The Colour of Landscape. In Days 1 - 3 I introduced my thoughts about landscape and showed my background as a Word Artist. Day 4 The Colour of Landscape In my first year back at painting in oils I did a multitude of small 'Daily Painting Still Lifes'. My fine arts degree in oil painting went back so many years that when I … [Read more...]

This is Day 3 of the Instagram #tendaychallenge and I was nominated by su@bonfanti, who was a part of my ‘Artists’ books journey’ ten years ago. I would like to nominate @ronniecruwys. I am posting on my blog to add information to my Instagram posts. Day 3 If I don't mention my years as a lettering artist / book artist, there will be a massive gap in my story, even though the theme is The Colour of Landscape. I guess my for much of my artistic career, my landscape was words, fine lettering and … [Read more...]