Thank you!

Hi there.

This is just a very quick post to say that Jayne and Lara both completed the Race For Life last Sunday and my wife and I were both lucky enough to have witnessed it! 

They have raised the fab total of £275, so on their behalf I would like to offer a very big THANK YOU  to any of you who may have contributed in any way, and please enjoy the photo of them warming up for the big event. As the London Olympics approaches - the World trembles!

Whatever your art - please enjoy it.

Paul

Oil Painting

Hello there, hope you are all well.

Here it is then, my latest work, which as you can all see, is definately a WIP. As I have said before, I am totally new to all of this oil painting working, and have no real idea as to how long it will be before it dries enough for me to add to it. Still, there's no rush, and it's all a learning curve. Nice and gentle.

What I am hoping for is to try and enhance the clouds or sky a little more, and to add some waves, both out on the sea and on the shoreline. Anyway, that's later on, as and when I can get to work on it.

The whole thing is done using oil paints, worked using palette knives, on a canvass textured board 12"x10" in size.

So there you go, you can now see that I have been working of sorts, and hope that you like it so far.

Whatever your art - please enjoy it.

Regards,

Paul

Questions!

Well hello there!

Grab a chair and the kettle is on - would you expect anything less? No you wouldn't would you.

Tonight I hope to get back to the adults group and finish my first ever oil painting, you know, the very loose one I told you about last week. It's all exciting new stuff to me this oil painting, as I am intrigued as to how it has kept; is it still wet, part dry, and what will it be like to continue working over the top of what I started last time? Gosh, I'm almost excited!

The plan I had to have a go at home has slowly started too, but all I have managed to do so far is to overpaint a part worked on canvass previously using acrylics. But that's another experiment for me. What does oil cover acrylic like? Does it? That original work was a landscape, with only a light wash of pale blue on it as I started to work on the sky, so perhaps one side will be different to the other?

This canvas is a long rectangular one some 39"x12" in size. My master plan, though not an original one by any means, is to have a go at portraying one of the Massai people we met in Kenya in January of this year, using one of the photo's I took as my inspiration, coupled with a little artistic license I had from doing some sketches a couple of years ago, when I had a go at portraying some jumping warriors in a sort of abstract way. We'll see how they turn out, given time.

So there you have it, my week so far. Hopefully if I get the first one done tonight, I will be able to get it home and possibly photograph it and get it online for tomorrow. Drying times and smudges permitting of course!

Whatever your art, please enjoy it.

Paul

Stained Glass

Hi there once again!

Today I would like to use this post to give you the chance to go visit the site of a good friend of mine.

Eddy Crick - who does some wonderful stained glass work lives in the same village as me, and I have know him for a number of years now. His work is bright and extremely colourful, being a traditional stained glass artist who uses coloured glass - not covering cut pieces of glass with coloured films. You really do get the real thing from him.

He has a small stock of items at home, supplies various galleries and outlets across the country, but is also very obliging to commissions - no matter how large or small.

Please go take a look at his site, I am sure you will not be disappointed. You can simply click on to his site using the "Edrick Art Supports" panel at the side.

Whatever your art, do keep enjoying it.

Regards,

Paul

Oil Be There.

Hello!

It's so nice to be able to welcome a new member to our happy band of blog followers, and this time it's Rob. A very warm welcome Rob, and thank you for taking the time and effort to join, I hope you enjoy it.

It's also very nice to be able to tell you all that last night I finally got round to having a go at doing some art again, after what has seemed a small lifetime! After the past few weeks I finally felt good enough to have a go at something loose and informal, so went the whole hog and went for a list of firsts!

Using oils, palette knives and a very loose style I started my very first oil work! To be honest with you I really enjoyed it and was more than pleased with what I have achieved so far. It's a beach, sea, sky, headland, small cove scene, and I hope to have it completed next Tuesday.

Jon who runs the group was so pleased someone finally got round to using the oils after having them sat on the shelves for over 2 years - he let me bring them home to use as and when I can. Nice touch - thanks Jon, I appreciate it.

My hand has to go up though as I admit to being a little lazy, not really wanting to get to use brushes with oils. From what I have read and heard it's a heck of a lot of trouble cleaning up afterwards. At least with palette knives it's a quick wipe with kitchen roll and your equipment is cleaned!

Hopefully I will be able to post a photo of it next week - then you can all let me know what you think.

Until next time, whatever your art, please enjoy it, and keep at it whenever you can!

Regards,

Paul

Run For Life

Greetings!

As the deadline for the big event fast approaches - and it is NOT football - can I ask anyone who is still contemplating to pledge something, however small, to Jayne and Lara's Run For Life fund to finally do it?

They are now only £25 short of their target, which is a very modest one indeed, and every penny goes straight towards the fight against Cancer, something which helps everyone.

Details are on the right hand side of this posting - so please pledge and help if you can.

On their behalf, a very big THANK YOU to everyone who has done so far, or now.

Regards

Paul

Iris

Hi there - how we all doing?

I still have not been up to much, but one thing I have got to look forward to is the picture below.

Someone has asked me if I can re-paint the background a different shade of blue, then they will have it and hang it in a prominent place in their home. So, when I can clear my head for long enough, then I will oblige.

Hopefully it should not give me too much trouble as it's a nice large piece, around 4 feet by 2 feet 8 inches, so not much fine detail on it to send my eyes and my head daft (or dafter) - who said that?

Some of you who have seen my earlier works may recognise it, but for those who have not, it's acrylic on hardboard with a wooden frame.

However it ends up, I hope you like it.

Whatever your art - enjoy it!

Paul

Heads!

Hi there!

Yes, it has been a while since my last posting, but unfortunately I have just been too ill these last few weeks, and had to spend some time in hospital, undergoing a bit of surgery along the way. I am pleased to say that I am now on the road to recovery - albeit slowly - but I will have no new works to post for a few weeks yet.

My new medication is playing havoc with my head (don't all artists go through phases like that?) and I am having a lot of quite bad headaches, so am unable to sit and draw, paint, sketch or anything artistic. My time on the PC is also limited to my headaches.

Main thing though is to make progress and to get well, so as and when I can I will try and post a bit of script now and then, hopefully once a week and put up a couple of my older works for you to have a look at. I hope this will be OK for you all, but there's not much I can do about it.

So until next week - have fun, take care, and whatever your art - enjoy it.

Paul