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Ink Structures cont.

I completed this ink drawing whilst looking at this image of the woods – I took this morning when I was painting outside. With these ink shapes I am mimicking the shapes I see inside cathedrals. Like someone said when looking at the ink drawings: The shapes look like you’ve cast the inside of a…… Continue reading Ink Structures cont.

Ink Experiments So Far

I have really enjoyed this change of medium! It’s refreshing to work with a material that you can drip, bleed, layer etc. I am drawing on skills I built when working in ink last academic year, but trying to push them forward and use as varied techniques as possible. Paper: 90lb watercolour paper and black…… Continue reading Ink Experiments So Far

Artist: Ross Bleckner

I am trying to figure out how I incorporate the cathedral interior influence into the structures in my paintings. The mediums I have been using- charcoal and acrylic sketches don’t seem to be helping me get what i want, so I want to look at Bleckner’s work to look at how he uses cathedral structures…… Continue reading Artist: Ross Bleckner

Finishing Big Rain Painting

The final painting session outside in the same weather conditions and location as before. I decided to record myself painting this time, since that is such a big part of the making process it’s interesting to record it! I put a video together of 8 minutes of painting towards the end of the painting session:…… Continue reading Finishing Big Rain Painting

Second Large Canvas: Process

I started this even larger canvas than the last because I want to test the limits of painting outside! This canvas is slightly taller than me and as wide as my arms stretch so it’s about the limit I can go and be able to carry the canvas outside without any help. The intention for…… Continue reading Second Large Canvas: Process

Reading ‘Landscape and Power’

Mitchell, W.J.T., 2002. Landscape and power 2nd ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press. I read the selected chapters of this book over a few weeks, making notes here as I went. I read this book to understand how my intentions and landscape painting fit into landscape painting in history. And also to understand the British (and western)…… Continue reading Reading ‘Landscape and Power’

Artist: Clare Woods

Rubery Hill47 x 68 cmEnamel on MDF2000 Cold East122 x 183 cmEnamel on MDF2001 These paintings above, Woods says, are painted from many photographs taken at night. She would put use the camera flash to photograph undergrowth. Black Vomit Mistaken Point250 x 1050 cmEnamel on AluminiumThe Hepworth Wakefield2011 Woods works from photographs of British landscapes…… Continue reading Artist: Clare Woods

Photos of Cathedrals

I want to do some sketches of cathedrals, where there is great sense of space and height much like forest spaces. Here is a collection of images of cathedrals and gallery spaces (that seem to use the same architecture as cathedrals) I took around Europe last year. The buildings are a different style to the…… Continue reading Photos of Cathedrals

Artist: Pieter Jansz. Saenredam

This is the painting that I saw and sketched in Edinburgh’s Scottish National Gallery. The use of perspective, space and height captured is wonderful. The more I sketched the painting in the gallery the more I realised it had parallels with the structures in my work. Pieter Jansz. Saenredam The Interior of St Bavo’s Church, Haarlem…… Continue reading Artist: Pieter Jansz. Saenredam

New Brushes!

I bought a few new DIY brushes for painting on big canvases. They range from 4.5″ down to a rounded 1″ brush.Here is a collection of all the brushes I’ll be using on my next painting from biggest to smallest!