I find when I am stuck on a painting or hesitant to ruin a new canvas, I start looking for inspiration on Instagram or on-line, or start doing 'business related' tasks. Anyhooo... that's what is happening now. I have a painting I am trying to do in acrylic vs oils and I am unsure about my background - so I am changing themes and styles and working on the blog. Above is a video recorded in time-lapse mode on the iPad of the drawing portion of my painting. The process for making these time lapse videos used to be longer and much more challenging - now most phones have a time-lapse button and you can have that sucker on instagram faster than should be allowed. Ah, tech... I love / hate you.
Monday, 27 January 2020
Art and Technology
I find when I am stuck on a painting or hesitant to ruin a new canvas, I start looking for inspiration on Instagram or on-line, or start doing 'business related' tasks. Anyhooo... that's what is happening now. I have a painting I am trying to do in acrylic vs oils and I am unsure about my background - so I am changing themes and styles and working on the blog. Above is a video recorded in time-lapse mode on the iPad of the drawing portion of my painting. The process for making these time lapse videos used to be longer and much more challenging - now most phones have a time-lapse button and you can have that sucker on instagram faster than should be allowed. Ah, tech... I love / hate you.
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Night painting
I have wanted to attempt a 'nocturnal' painting and have done a couple of sketches in the past. This is my first attempt with oil colours. It's from a photo of my brother, getting the bonfire started for our Christmas sledding and fireworks party. I think I will attempt a larger scale one this year, maybe squeeze in more of the family.
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| 11 x 14 Oil on Canvas |
Thursday, 9 January 2020
Another Process Post
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| the grid and drawing |
One of the BEST places to visit on this planet is Haida Gwaii, on Canada's west coast. It is spectacularly beautiful. I travelled there with my family a few years ago and we had a wonderful time. We learned a lot about the Haida people's culture and history, we ate great food, we met friendly people and we took an epic trip on a zodiac boat to one of the culturally significant sites. I have painted a couple pictures from photos, but I took soooo many photos that I could probably keep painting. I hope to get back there again some day to do some Plein air painting.
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| starting in with the oil paints |
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| Nearing completion - picky details will take another couple of days |
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