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
Category: Second Term
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!
Large Canvas Painting
1m x 1.5m stretched canvas. I made and stretched this canvas and primed with two layers of gesso plus a thin layer of blue acrylic paint. Oil and Liquin used on top of acrylic underpainting. White structure lines done in thinned oil paint w. turpentine. Painted outside in the woods on a still, sunny evening…… Continue reading Large Canvas Painting
Oil and white charcoal experiment reflection
<Painted enplein air at sunset standing here. With this experiment I tried bigger blocks of colour, a more limited and thought out colour palette, longer brushstrokes and less brushstrokes. The result is interesting I think! Less brushstrokes means the scene feels vast and emptier, with the space between marks very apparent. The dark green background…… Continue reading Oil and white charcoal experiment reflection
Comparing recent experiments
White tape experiment done en plein air in oils with acrylic an gesso primed paper. Painted on cloudy day in afternoon. White tape applied before the canvas was primed with the green gesso + acrylic. Underpainting and colours Colours are less vibrant in white experiment than on the dark grey background on canvas below. I…… Continue reading Comparing recent experiments
Georgina Harris 