My Flower garden (2)
This was painted in almost the same way as the first in the series (see below), specifically because the first sold quickly on ebay.
Abstract Mountainscape,
This painting is in pastel on card.It is loosely based on a series of paintings by Cezanne of Mont St Victoire
My Flower Garden
This painting is in watercolour, another ACEO painting. There is a story to this one. I was trying to paint a landscape and lost interest, I took a wet rag and scrobbed the paper. This gave me a neutral backgroud which for some reason I liked. I took the three primary colours and dropped them in whilst the paper was still wet and pressed my finger into the resulting colour pools. When this had partially dried, I drew the black "stems" with a rigger. At this point I dropped a couple of other colours into the painting and decided that I actually liked it. I named it because it reminded me of a flower border in full bloom.
Building the City
Another that started out as a quickie with no plan in mind. I had just completed My Flower Garden (seen in this section also). I quickly covered the paper with a wet alizarin wash, and using three primaries I painted in a number of strokes with no definite pattern. As soon as I stood back I could see the "cranes" in the distance over a multitude of buildings. Simply dropping in dark windows made the painting for me. The light windows were fortuitous, a happy accident.
Still Life, bottle in an abstract background
This is another pastel on card. I did this one to illustrate how an abstract background could be realised with a discernable object to make it stand out. This was one of our groups "evening workshops", where we each take a subject and discuss or demonstrate to the group as a whole. Cheaper than professional demonstrators!!!!
asteroids
One of my early abstracts. I got into abstracts in a very dubious way. I was in a group (another one) where every so often they had a theme night, on the first abstract evening I decided to use some of the very brightly coloured pastels from various sets that I had purchased. I was surprised when everyone said that it was just the job for their upcoming exhibition, and blow me down I sold my first painting. I have experimented with abstract themes ever since.
My wife calls this my "smarties" picture.
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