I went out to the studio just to have a look,
in tidy day clothes of course
Taped over both paintings and re-glazed the thin sharp gaps with a nearly white mix of paint and sunflower and turps
Removed the tape and added some more red, blue and yellow oil bar to bring up the colour again
They might be finished
I’ve worked on these for a week now, today I added a dribbly top coat of a very pale blue with safflower oil
It needs some more highlights so when this glaze layer is dry I will work over it with random scratches and dashes of white and yellow
Still a bit too specific and representative for my liking, looking for a more impressionistic abstraction
a series of 6 paintings I made on paper last year
each mixed media (oil, oilbar and graphite pencil) 40 x 30cm approx
all sold in an on-line charity auction
I think I might make some more like this later on this winter
I’m thinking purples and reds and greens
solo show letterkenny donegal 2010
an early show at home in wales 2005?
solo show this year
this is the time of year for writing submissions to galleries for shows for next year
thought you might like to see a few snapshots of previous shows
from ‘october musings’
2 paintings nearly dry in my studio oil and graphite on canvas 80cm sq
this is the foundation stone / wheel / arch of my work
an inspiration first discovered in college
built on and flowering
thank you secret gardener for showing me the origin
3 rough-edged pieces of raw unprimed canvas
mounted and painted on commercial canvas
then removed from the mounts
swirls and shapes and angry colours
painted with ferocious energy
now hang limply over a rail
what next?
each piece is about 70cm squarish, originally mounted on 80cm sq canvas
I could re stretch and remount
I could paint over them
I could burn them
any thoughts?
I’ve heard people love lists
so this (above ) is my favourite mainly yellow painting (private collection Ireland)
and here is my favourite red painting (private collection England):
And yes, here’s a favourite blue one (private collection England):
And here is my favourite green one:
and finally a favourite mostly purple one
Now you have a rainbow (with the orange ones from yesterday)
old small
small blur
about 25 x 20cm
mixed media on canvas
private collection in Italy
old large
110cm x 180cm
oil on canvas
new huge
100cm x 210cm
made up of 4 separately framed canvases
oil and graphite
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