The following paintings are the results from a recent IAG workshop with Jeremy Yates in Menai Bridge. It was hard work, but we all had a great time and the weather was very kind to us. Menai Bridge Study(oil on canvas board 15cm x 15cm x 3) Menai Bridge Bowling Club Gardens (oil on …
Here’s the result of the latest Island Art Group seascape painting workshop led by our Chairman, Mike Linford, together with one of the reference photos he kindly provided.
This painting was the result of attending a workshop with Joanna Evans. The original objective was to imagine an artist wearing a hat and to paint them in a way which represents their style or associated artistic movement. Unfortunately, despite several attempts to be as bold as Frank, I still ended up producing a rather …
This is my latest painting which was worked up from a plein air sketch produced during the Mike Knowles landscape painting week at the beginning of the month. In it, I am seeking to recreate the memory of the dazzling array of colours on show, as well as the feeling of distance and space in …
These paintings are the result of attending the Island Art Group landscape workshop at Llaneilian in the north of Anglesey. Mike Knowles provided tuition and guidance, as well as useful constructive criticism. I chose to focus on Mynydd Parys (Parys Mountain), which, according to Wikipedia, “dominated the world’s copper market during the 1780s, when the …
These pictures are from a fantastic landscape workshop at Tim Iliffe’s beautiful farm near Llanfairfechan on Saturday. Tim encouraged us to ‘respond’ to the landscape rather than just ‘record’ it, starting with charcoal, then monochrome, before moving on to a full palette. I was inspired by the variety and geometry of the plant leaves as …
This is my print from yesterday’s drypoint printmaking workshop with Linda Davis. Linda was a brilliant tutor and the whole day was great fun!
As part of the Savvy Painter Growth Studio, I took part in the 21 day #savvypainterinstachallenge on Instagram. The video above (based on Van Gogh’s Chair ‘self portrait’) is one example of my attempts to use the Japanese technique of Notan to analyse the composition of paintings by famous artists. Notan, which loosely translates as …
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Here’s a print I made of South Stack Lighthouse during an Island Art Group workshop with Howard Coles during which he introduced us to the Collagraph method of printmaking using textured wallpaper.
