My new painting…collage with mixed media and acrylics with some smudgings of ….eyeshadow!
Dollie
Do not be fooled, friends…….!
These 2 may look adorable, innocent…….BUT……they had us awake at 5.45am this morning, trying to get into a huge box, and nothing – but nothing will stop an Ocicat on a mission! So it was an early morning cuppa for us this morning, and me trying to re-write this blog, as yesterday’s was wiped off after I put the photo on! We have the BBC coming back again Fri; they (Horizon programme) are doing a programme on cats and what they get up to once through the cat flap. I don’t think any of our 3 will be used as the Oci’s will probably not wear the camera collar, and CoCo, if she will wear the collar, really can’t get up to that much once outside, at her age! (But that’s what we think….maybe this programme will prove otherwise!!). Still when the been came last time, all 3 cats behaved impeccably! Anyway…..art…..I have been very busy painting, and have just finished another which I will put on here in a bit. I’m still doing the same stuff as I want to feel I’ve really got to grips with it before I move onto to something else
. We had some social stuff going on over the weekend, so as my dining table doubles up as my studio, all my stuff had to be moved to another room! Needless to say, it’s all back again now, though. Anyway fellow bloggeroos….that’s a quick update for now. I’ll have a go at getting the new painting on here now! XThe sleeping beauties!
So, this is where I’m at now….
These 3 paintings are where I’m at now. Collage….collage….and more collage! Ilove it! I’ve always loved pop art and the sort of ‘dolly bird’ drawings of the 60’s and 70’s (anyone remember Jackie magazine?!). Well I’ve always aspired to do those drawings, even back then when I was a school. With this style of collage, I can incorporate my ‘dolly’ drawings within it, and I am hoping my signature mark will be the Big Hair, in twirly colours, in each of them.
There is a fantastic artist, Tamara Laporte, who offers online courses, on collage, which is what got me started. She really did make me totally unafraid to have a go. I’m sure I still have a long way to go, with my collage, and my other style of painting, but I will keep at it.
I have also downloaded another great artist’s (Glyn Macey), online course. He to, uses collage, but in seascapes and other scenic views. So that will be by next step…..once I’ve mastered me dollies a bit more!
Fun Day Out
Acrylics with collage and mixed media. his was inspired by a day out in London, hence the tickets!
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I have only just finished this painting; in fact I plan to add another maple leaf in the bottom left corner, to balance it out a bit. I haven’t got a name for it yet, so any suggestions…. As part of the collage I used dried acrylic paint which were left on my palette, and which I scraped off and stuck onto my canvas before I started painting. I now have a little pot of dried old acrylic scrapings!
Eye Eye
Mixed media and collage, using acrylics and water soluble wax crayons. I really am enjoying these ‘abstracty’ paintings. Anything goes with what you use; it’s more how you put it together as in the composition which matters and I’m not sure I’ve got that right yet! I’ll keep on with it though as its such fun!
Walking in the Heather
Oil pastels
Gerry
My sister took this lovely photo, from which I painted Gerry in oil pastels. (They are just so easy to transport to my art group).
this is plain rude…poking his tongue out!
oh dear! is he bored too?
Waiting to Fish
Acrylics with impasto painted cliffs, done with a palette knife, and the pebbles on the beach have a raised effect by using splashes of masking fluid all over.