🏡 My Home

 

025 My Home

Has turned out rather well.  Painting buildings has been quite fun.  I love all the straight lines!

I have in the past attempted 3D models and pictures of the house but have never completed them, writing them off as too much of a challenge.  This one however feels quite different.  

I did this using the same technique I normally do.  I printed it off in black and white on A4 paper and cut out the buildings.  

I then drew around it so that I had a very basic outline.  Free drawing the rest in using my steel ruler,

 

🥀 Tulipa

 

016 Tulipa

Today I tried to paint some Tulips by copying a picture I found on the Pinterest website.  I have joined two Facebook acrylic painting groups, where I can show mine own artwork off, see what other people are doing and even ask the odd question or two.  

I think one of my next projects will be a Painting of one of my many animal photos.  

I have decided that this picture can be a nice present for Mum and Dad for Easter.

🐰🥚🐣🐤🐥🐇  

🏖 Out to Sea

013 Out to Sea

This project started out life as going to be another song lyric, 'Love is like a grain of Sand' from Fleetwood Mac's 1982 song  'oh Diane'  

This was to be the background and in the foreground, a hand and a mixture of sand and hearts slipping through the fingers as the next line of the song implies.  However this background was far too good in my opinion to cover up with a hand.  So I am keeping it like this.  

The Fleetwood Mac lyric, or another, will return at some point when I maybe have a better vision to accompany it.

Good call I believe.

 

⛵ Sea at Sunset

 

010 Sea at Sunset

I am going to do my own version of the picture shown on the Laptop that I found on the Pinterest website.

I had a canvas board that I yesterday painted with Magnolia emulsion.  I had previously (a couple of years ago) tried painting something purple on it.  I thought rather than waste it I could reuse it.

This photo was taken after painting the Sky and Sea.  Next is the Black bits, but I'm a little nervous that this bit could easily go wrong.

It is now complete.  This has to have been one of the easiest pictures to do.  I will get a better photo tomorrow in daylight.

Its not too bad at all.  I need to do more like this.  

When I showed my boys they were amazed that it took me just one hour to do this one.

Tape Art 2

004 Tape Art 2

 

I was so pleased with the first one.  How bright the colours look against the Black background and the sharpness of the lines I wanted to have another go.

So I am reusing the other one of my old canvasses and started making the second in a set of modern art pictures.  All done in exactly the same way as the first.

After adding a few more random bits of tape I coloured it in with Acrylic Paints (adding a few extra colours this time).  This is it at the end of today, I pretty much spent the whole afternoon doing it.

With these tape pictures the fun bit is carefully peeling off the tape.  I will let it sit overnight before doing that bit.

So, I couldn't wait until morning, haha! 

Again, not too bad at all.  A little bit of bleed and Peel in places but again it's exactly as I expected it to be with probably about the same amount of work to do as the first one had.

Please Note though, this photo was taken just before 11pm and the lighting in the Conservatory was not at all good.  This photo was taken using the flash so the colours don't look as true as they would in daylight.

14 March 2021

Here is the finished piece after touching up all the bleed and Peel areas.  It is now complete and I will finish it off with a coat of Matt Acrylic Varnish.

Tape Art 1

 

003 Tape Art 1

I painted this canvas Black the other day and wasn't sure what to do with it so I stuck tape over it and started colouring in the gaps in with bright Acrylic paints.  I just went for it.

All segments painted.  Now for the big reveal.  Carefully peel off all the tape.

And this is exactly what I expected. 

Some of the Black has peeled off to reveal the original blue that was on this recycled canvas.  

And some of the colours had bled under the tape which I can also spend today putting right.  

But, this stage has gone much better than I expected.

After careful touching up and fixing this was the end result.