Start of New Triptych

Thursday this week I started a new painting a Triptych of a Lake Land Scene with mist on the hills. Below are a couple of poor photographs of the very early stages I am sure you get the idea.

I am away for the next couple of week but will be looking forward to coming back and working on this I am quite excited about it.

Two paintings completed

I have been back painting with my artist friends for the last few Thursdays and have manage to complete a painting I started on in 2009 if you look back through the blog you will find it so you can compare then and now. I have also finished a second painting of the Lakes, it is from a walk Anne and I had up to Easedale Tarn above Grasmere a beautiful place. On the way up the clouds were down on the hills and the atmosphere was moist this is my interpretation of that moment I hope you can feel the mist and the mood.

This is the painting I never finished from two years ago it is my wife Anne walking down a ginnell in Keswick. I am working towards an Exhibition next spring and have a few works of the Lake District I think they should hang as a series in a the show. Acrylic on canvas 460 x 605mm 

The Walk to Easedale Tarn

Acrylic on canvas 605 x460mm

My friends at the Pavilion where I go to paint on a Thursday had the idea that we should all put a subject to develop, on a piece of paper then draw one out of a hat, we would all then produce a response to that topic, we drew out "Blood". The following day a few of the group went along to an exhibition of Aubery Beardsley and some other illustrators at "The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery" at Leeds University. The image below is my response influenced by the exhibition and the topic of "Blood"

Blood and Beardsley

Watercolour

Met up with some of my artist friends on Thursday, well two of them, the others were snowed in. I went along with a blank mind and a quarter sheet of watercolour paper and ended up with this painting of a dog, working direct from a photo on my lap top taken on one of my many lakeland trips.

Artist Trading Cards

Artist Trading Cards (ATC) are small works of art about the size of a standard playing card -in the UK - 2 1/2" x 3 1/2". They can be produced in many materials from collage, marker pen, watercolours, acrylics, almost any thing. The idea is that they are traded (not sold) between artist or indeed anyone. The idea was conceived by Swiss artist M. Vanci Stirnemann, back in 1966 and in 1967 he had a show of 1200 cards he produced. Today there are group meetings where people trade cards. Some galleries are offering ATC events. Below are some examples of my first attempt at making some.

Artists Trading Card

Helen Beatrix Potter

Artits Trading Card

Vincent Van Gogh