The Village shop is complete! 27cmX27cm (Well, almost - just the postbox to get some detail, but I needed to look at it again). The little Westie's name is Delphi and she goes there for a walk every day and sometimes twice a day with her elderly master and he enjoys a beer in the sunshine while she waits patiently. Here is a close-up of the corrected spelling mistake. A patch is the most drastic way to correct mistakes, but it also shows evidence of hand. (You'd never need to do this with … [Read more...]
House portraits in a naive style
After drawing my brother Des and Caroline's home, (a small drawing 15cm wide done in situ) I felt this style would be great to persue and wanted to work at doing something slightly naive. Someone in the village saw my church lino cut and asked me to do a house portrait for Sarah's birthday. Lino-cuts take forever, and we had a time constraint, so I thought about creating the lovely cut-feel by using rubber stamps for the windows and doing some naive flowers as one would have to do in a lino … [Read more...]
House Portrait exhibition
Two more days to let me know about the swatch-swop! Today is an exhibition of my little artist's buildings as a wrap-up of the 2014 artwork by the girls. Here are the final surprise paintings for their mum and dad. I love the way both little artists have interpreted their home as very large. You can see how they copied the windows, but also got a bit confused with the front door and steps leading up to it. The bricks were a lot of work. When you are very small and the sheet of paper is big … [Read more...]