Spent the morning in the studio and finally started painting my 6 x 4 ft. canvas. As usual I’m not working from one particular image, I like to work mainly from memory or taking inspiration from secondary images. I’m using Acrylic paint for this painting like I have used with a lot of my previous paintings. By working on a much bigger scale I want to try and create an atmosphere within the painting like I mentioned about in one of my earlier posts, so hopefully by working on a bigger scale it will be much easier to create this atmosphere. So far I feel like it is going well and tomorrow I will be going back into the studio to try finish it, so I’ll post some more photos tomorrow of how it is going.
So for the last few days I have been trying to sort out and decide what work I would be putting in our fine art auction. While experimenting with different things in my sketch book I decided that I would put some smaller paintings in and get frames for them.
The first image is the two paintings that I have put in for our auction on monday, I had the choice of a few small paintings from my sketch book but decided on these two as they both looked better than the others when framed.
After helping with the auction hanging thursday I spent the day in the studio Friday and carried on creating some small paintings in my sketch book. I really like how these are turning out and want to get some more frames and see how they look then. Even though this is a bit different to what I wanted to do with my previous paintings its still continuing with the theme of seascapes and abstract pieces.
Last week I started painting on a canvas I had in my studio space. I started painting and after a while I decided I wasn’t happy with how it was looking. So I left it for a few hours and then came back to it and started painting over what I had already done.
The first image on the right is what it looked like before I decided to paint over it and pretty much start again. At this stage I wasn’t happy with how it was looking, although I liked how the sky looked I wasn’t happy with it all as a whole so after leaving it for a while I decided I should paint over it and start again.
The next image shows the first stage of painting over it, I started off by painting the sky and working my way down the canvas.
The third image shows how it looked when I had finished painting it all and when I felt happy with how it looked, I didn’t want to keep painting over it becuase I would end up really not liking it. The last image is a photo I took of my pallet while I was painting.
I keep looking back at the final image and thinking about what more I could add to it. I keep asking myself the questions . . .
• Should I have left it alone in the first place and not changed it so much?
• If I go back to it now what more could I add to it?
• If I could add more, should I? Or should I leave it as it is?
So this painting may develop further, we’ll see.
So I had started painting on my big canvas yesterday, but it wasnt stretched as tightly as it could be and after talking with Jane today she suggested that it would be best to restretch the canvas. Jane suggested that I should turn the canvas and stretch it the other way around so with a bit of help that is what I have done today. Tomorrow I will prime the new side of the canvas and hopefully get painting on it again tomorrow afternoon.
Over the last week I have decided that I am going to start a painting on a much larger scale, 6ft x 4ft. I have primed the canvas, bought wood to have a frame made up and on friday I got the canvas stretched over the frame that was made the day before. To try and tighten the canvas more, once it was stretched I went over it with another layer of primer, so hopefully it will have tightened over the weekend while it dried.
Then tomorrow I will start painting onto it. As I havent taken my own images yet I might work from secondry images, however I might carry on working from memory like I have done so far. Even though I am working on a much larger scale this is still an experiment as I have no planned outcome for when the painting is finished and have never painted on such a big scale before in this way.
