three small paintings...
...from a series of twenty five paintings [2015, all on wood, displayed in a grid]. i enjoyed painting them and it is nice to look at the photographs again. i think they pretty much sum up my personal style of 'painting' - textured, slightly weathered, some imperfections - favouring the abstract, much influenced by rural country living. still squares, grid references, small building blocks.i found an old rusty shovel [yes, it's a shovel!] and i have hung it up on the wall as a piece of modern sculpture.i don't know what else to say. i am waiting for paint to dry.
road works ahead
[road works ahead]
[on the ladder]
[window reflection]
surfing
i attended an art photography workshop a few weeks back. we were asked to bring one or two paintings to take pictures of, and i took along this small painting...
i used daylight studio lights and reflectors to take this picture [with a camera on a tripod!], and i was also guided in some post-processing in photoshop [i have only cropped it as it came out pretty close, i think - well, i took quite a few test shots to try out some camera settings].i selected this small painting for the workshop because there are no obvious figurative elements and the colours are quite dark and muted, and i thought this would present a good challenge from which to learn a few things.this painting is one of my many experiments at painting a sense of the sea, and it makes me think about surfing and pictures of the inside of waves, as there is no shoreline or horizon to orientate it. it is quite disorientating [to me now] as i was trying to evoke a sense of movement and depth, emerging and submerging, crashing waves, under water, or resurfacing - all on a flat surface - and i'm not sure that it really 'works' - it could be anything [the allure of painterly abstraction] - but i gave it a shot anyway.i think i was feeling quite depressed at the time of painting it.