Posts Tagged ‘painting’
September 9th, 2009
Sunflower
Hasn’t been the best summer, we had a lot of rain but that didn’t seem to stop the hoards of sunflowers that grew up from seed in my front yard. They literally took over a couple of our flower beds and the birds absolutely love them. Inspired by these huge plants I thought it fit [...]
January 25th, 2009
Painting: Valve
No, I haven’t given up on painting yet. Here is the latest painting, it’s another still life and it’s a big brass valve. This was a tricky exercise as the Valve had some tricky angles and curves, not all of which I got right but I had fun, learned a bit, and that’s what counts.
I took a couple pictures [...]
January 18th, 2009
Painting again
At the beginning of December I decided that I wanted to get back into art, in particular painting in Oils. I haven’t had much experience with oils so this presented both a learning opportunity and an outlet for some pent up creativity.
So I’ve been painting. Initially I was a bit apprehensive to get started, which is natural, but once I did, [...]