April 10th, 2010 by ColourPainter
Commission : Landscape oil painting that looks like a sketch. Update on ‘Antony’s View’ sketchbook work (In a previous blog post). The finished painting is in Daler Rowney oils using Pro Arte series A and B brushes (Long flat and filbert). Its 1 metre x 50cms and is quite imposing in a white room.
The canvas been built up in several layers (Mostly dry brushed – without mediums). The photo below is deceptive in that you can’t see the surface texture… it is just a happy snap! I’m intregued by the way it looks and feels like a sketch at a distance but, on closer inspection, is clearly a textured oil painting. I’ve mixed very specific greys using red, yellow, blue & white to intentionally look like graphite – and varied the tones for interest. It will be challenging now to try and interpret something similar in colour.
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I’ll leave it for few days and go back to it – if i feel any more needs to be done.
A couple of close ups..
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Julia
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April 2nd, 2010 by ColourPainter
Just a quick update on how the studio is progressing. I’ve finally managed to get some of my artwork into the studio… Still quite a lot in storage/galleries too. But, always nice to be surrounded by some things you enjoy. As you can see from the image, I’m currently working on a greyscale oil painting – Its about half done. The studio is based quite close to the Harlow Carr Botanical Gardens, Harrogate. Visitors welcome but please contact me first.
Rgds Julia
Art studio Harrogate. Click for a larger view.
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March 28th, 2010 by ColourPainter
I’ve been extra busy this week moving into my new studio and framing some of my prints for a gallery. The studio looks a little bare right now, with nothing in, but i’ll soon remedy that! I will be displaying sculpture and paintings. The studio is situated very near the Harlow Carr Gardens Harrogate.
Visitors will be welcomed but please contact me to arrange times. I’ll add some more pics to my blog once I have my work installed.
Rgds Julia
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March 8th, 2010 by ColourPainter
‘Antony’s View’ – Commission
I’ve spent some time this week working on a client commission. The brief included the following criteria..
- Interpret the local landscape in my style.
- Realism – not abstract.
- Contemporary.
- Not nostalgic or sentimental.
- Linear.
- Greyscale.
- Tree as a fundamental object while encompassing a wide area of landscape.
It is fortunate that the landscape is very near here and I have a great affection for it. It is quite beautiful while not being ‘pretty.’ Its a working landscape with farms all around and the huge Chevin Hill rising up behind covered in pine trees and outcrops of rocks. I really liked the tree at the front… and, being winter, you could almost see through it….I shall really bring that idea out in the actual painting. Oh, and i loved the bath the farmer has been using for water – brilliant! 
Can you find it?
Otley Acrylic Landscape Sketch With Chevin Hill And Tree. Idea to interpret in oil paint - Probably 1 metre wide. The sketch above was done at 80cms. Please click for a larger view.
The image above is a draft idea for interpretation in paint. When it is executed i’ll focus on..
- Keeping it 2D (Flat) while indicating the distance landscape – a heady challenge!
- Balancing numerous grey shades and using white highlights.
- Making brush strokes linear and sharp (Almost like a drawing) – cutting through several layers of oil paint.
The oil painting will be far more considered – with layers of paint built up. I don’t want to fully interpret the image until my client has approved the principle – then i can develop the idea more fully… Or come up with new ideas!
Sketchbook..
Quick linear charcoal sketches - Simple information gathering. Please click for a larger view.
Make the final oil painting using layers of paint and sharp lines. Keep it flat.
rgds. Julia
February 26th, 2010 by ColourPainter
The river Wharfe Otley and TittyBottle park from the bridge.
Acrylic painting of the river Wharfe and TittyBottle park from the bridge. Click on the picture for a larger view.
Cryla heavy body acrylics on canvas (80×50 cms). TittyBottle Park is a small triangular strip of land along the right hand side of the river (Where the benches are in the above image). TittyBottle is the local affectionate name for Manor Parade Gardens on Mill Lane (Originally called Milne Leys). Generations of mothers have taken babies to the park – hence its name!
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