After starting this piece back in October, I unfortunately soon found myself at a creative block. I got the outline completed, completed the sky, started on the sand, sea and deck chairs then stopped. A random free day found me adding real sand to the actual sand part of the…
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Sunshine and Deckchairs – The Painting
This marks the start of a really exciting project for me and to get back painting on canvas with my trusty acrylic paint. I don’t really know why I stopped painting but I put it down to a lack of time (working full time then having my children would do…
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Art sessions 4.0 – Mark making with nature
Almost a year later now we returned to Art sessions. This time; as we no longer had access to the beautiful space at Ruskin we opted for the local nature reserve. Got muddy and creative with my art buddy Amira Hasoon (@amira.hasoon). Even in the chilly March weather! Using mud…
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Art sessions 3.0 – Still life study
For the third art sessions we chose a traditional still life, using whatever items we could find within the studio. This ended up being old vases, jugs and a gravy boat. Simple items that I could really focus in on shape and detail. We also decided to set up some…
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Art Sessions 2.0 – Skeletons continued
Making the most of the access we had to the college, the second art sessions with Amira Hasoon (@amira.hasoon) we focused on experimenting with a different media; gouache, whilst sticking with our original subject of skeletons. For this session we posed both skeletons on an old sofa (with great difficulty…
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Art Sessions 1.0 – Skeletons
Having the opportunity to work and get creative with Amira Hasoon (@amira.hasoon) within the Ruskin school of art in January 2022. It had been a really long time since I just made art without a specific purpose. For a long time I made art for people through custom orders focusing…