Day 48. Still Making Art.

June 24th, "On the Shelf".  Gouache.

It's day 48 of the #arteveryday group.  People are still posting their art regularly, and it's incredibly rewarding to see how they develop.  For myself it has kept me busy and given me a routine with preparation of the daily theme posts, and creating the collages of work each day.
My personal development with painting is coming along gradually, I watch tutorials sometimes on YouTube, and am really enjoying the new art materials I have invested in.

June 20th. "Bottles". The contents of the caravan drinks cupboard.  I really like the natural colours of these Windsor and Newton Cotman water colour tubes.

June 25th "Geometric".  Water colours and gouache.

June 21st "Solstice".  Water colours.

June 15th "Gateway".  Gouache.

June 17th "Building".

June 18th.  "Pink".  (For some reason I continued to write "May" on my paintings, when it was well into June!

Negative Space

June 11th "Negative Space".  Gouache.   I'd never tried this technique before, but after looking at some YouTube videos I thought it looked pretty simple... actually it was hard, but by the third layer of paint I'd started to get the hang of it.  It's about filling in the space around the image, letting it dry, then adding the next layer back on the picture, and filling in the space between again.  4 layers later (paint becoming stronger) and it looks pretty effective.  Would have been better with watercolours, but at this stage I was just considering buying some.

June 13th.  "Bubbles" building on the negative space theme, I used acrylics for this piece, but determined to get hold of some watercolours and mop brushes. 

June 22nd, "Spikey".  I finally invested in some water colours!  Inspired by brambles I did some more negative space practice.  The paints were recommended by a friend in the group and are really powerful, more like inks, and only cost £5 from Amazon.  The brushes have revolutionised my painting experience (£14, very thick but with fabulous pointed tips).

June 12th "Mythology".  According to the story of the Bearded Lake, tall green-clad fairy women come out of the lake with their pure white cattle to sun themselves on the bank.

After spending the morning researching the god Pan, including listening to a woman from Australia who claimed to be spiritually connected and actually chatting to the deity. (Just putting that there for future possible experimental film soundtrack). 

This is the group collage, and I was so inspired by some of the Welsh legends, I remembered the legend of Llyn Barfog about which I'd been commissioned to make a Welsh language film a few years ago.

June 23rd.  "Daisy" seemed like a nice simple theme, but I overworked this, and lost the simplicity somewhere along the way.

June 14th."Protest".  There is a lot of protesting going on, with statues coming down and the Black Lives Matter movement.  This image is inspired by Greenham Common womens camp, and the 14 mile human chain I, my friends and my parents were part of in 1983, protesting at American nuclear weapons  on British soil.

June 16th, "Smoke".  Portrait of my son who happened to be sitting outside our colourful shed smoking on this morning.  I used a new basic set of Windsor and Newton Cotman water colour tubes.