Shadow Fighting
When I spoke to Stewart we talked about the back of my panels – or at least those parts seen when looking down the sides of them. We talked about […]
Category Archives: Tests
Colour Journey Journals
Whilst in Wales I took the opportunity to start collating my ‘source’ material from my colour journeys. This is a fairly long process and involves me taking the journey images, […]
Easter Escapades
Over the Easter period, I did a fair bit of painting. Most of these (in fact all) will remain as test pieces for one reason or another. For a start, […]
Sherwood Printmakers 23 March 2014
I went to Sherwood Printmakers on Sunday and had a great time experimenting with stripes. While I was making my new TV cabinet, organising the living room (my mind is […]
Plaids 2
I’ve taken another ‘day’ from my colour diary to play with creating plaids. I love the interaction of the colours – the way that these compositions allow all the colours […]
Plaid Diary
Following on from our seminar on Monday, Alexa commented that one of my paintings reminded her of Tartan. This seemed quite interesting to me, due to my current obsession with […]
Head of the Board
Since my tutorial with Stewart I have been concentrating on painting on board and the scope this gives me for different sizes and groupings. After my initial painting experiments (and […]
Studio work 15 Feb 2014
The starting point for experiments on this day was to look at the monoprints I did in Oct 2013 and see if there were any elements I could bring into […]
Studio 8th Feb
I’ve managed to drag myself away from the Winter Olympics today (particularly the slope style – although the Luge is about to start!) long enough to blog about yesterday’s studio […]
Studio day 01 Feb
I finally started painting yesterday. It was worth the wait. Although the ‘final pieces’ were hopeless, the journey to them was really fruitful. The boards sanded down great and presented […]
