Up to London to see the new Eurostar terminal at St Pancras very large and busy. As a rule I do not do first day things and tend to avoid them.
It will be interesting to revist when things have settled down. Will post more pictures when Blogger is less busy, its a bit slow at the moment!
Here is Rob painting, I have known him for a couple of years now since doing the Access course anf now in second year od Fine Art. His paintings have been mainly abstract.
his latest project involved leaving paintings around Southsea,,,,,,
Level 1 Fine Art student doing her stuff for her Autobiography Project which all students who are doing Fine Art at Portsmouth do. I like this painting very much, the largness of the face is a interesting interpretation of a self portrait and I wish her well with her project!
Blopgger being a bit slow uploading today. these cards are part of ongoing project. they are on the window and are Free. when they are gone there is a empty space...for now.
Happier now that I have managed to do a bit of painting in the studio... Experimentel!
A interesting guy. He is off to Brazil for a month over Christmas, to see his Dad whom he has never seen! Wish him luck with that.
he paints different shapes and does all manner of different things, his website is very interesting to look at and worth a visit . A name to look out for I feel.
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Things are settling down...have not got specific studio space yet but hopefully within the next week or two..... my stuff on the window ledge of the studio.....making a point I suppose. a bit on the edge of things.....
Have been somewhat ocupied with my degree course of late so have not blogged as much.
i am a painter but do have ideas and am sort of interested in conceptual art, but a lot tends to annoy me but I can at least appreciate where some of it is from..aspex
Aspex is a interesting Gallery in Porsmouth and it is not just about painting, paid a brief visit last Wednesday, will go again.
I aim to be more productive on the blog front
O.K i am a untidy person...Show me a tidy studio where everything is in its place then i might believe you but how many tidy Artists do you know! Are You A Tidy Artist?
The start of a whole series i feel....early morning commuters wayting for thiere train or train stations any time of the day.
this time of year I always want to paint ranges. reds or yellowes. perhaps it reminds me of the autumn leaves o or even fireworks.
First Picture showes Third Year Student busy painting, Second Picture showes second Year Students discussing.
to add to my collection of people sketches there are now paintings many more to appear i feel
This was a older Painting probably the start of my people phase. The Yellow hair was done with photoshop!
what with starting back to uni and variouse goings on its been qiute busy so here are three photos to make up for the blank couplle of days this week
First photo is just experimentel with variouse painting recently done
quite pleased with the second Photo.
last one of some friends who were having a group tutorial.
a painting I did the other day it is about intercaction or not in a Gallery, some people walking around, some standing even one looking at a picture.
Yesterday morning was a glourious autumn morning and i decided to go for a walk along langstone foreshore and get in touch with nature and rebalance the mind a bit.
First picture was the stream with the sparkling sun (it has come out in reverse oder so the top one is the last picture you look up!)
second pic was of the swans they do keep moving as nature does so what you point at to get a picture is sometimes a bit hit and miss!
third picture all together now aaaaaaagh,,,,sweet ducklings!
The fourth and finale on of Langstone mill. I have a love hate relationship with it as it tends to be overpainted and evereyone wants to paint it locally, if and when i do I think it will be abstract and mixed media.
The pace starts to quicken and a new term starts at Uni.I put up a painting in what will be hopefully my studio space for the next year. it was the painting that I showed earlier here but it is in a new situation, site specific so to speak!
After much fiddling and swearing have finaly got the picture i wanted post the right way up! and am happy now that it is done, the earlier post was a bit of a error but i was experimenting
with the painting.
first day back at uni they do not get going to next week, we are a group of 56 now!(2nd year).
I do like these lamps and I think there is a painting of one brewing in the background!
A bit of art history,
I discoverd a interesting painter Patrick Nasmyth
He managed to paint using his left hand after he had injury to his right hand and he was deaf due to a illness. His financial affairs were chaotic and consequently he never managed to make any real money from his paintings, he paid great attention to brickwork and fore ground in his paintingDetail Here
More info here
I found it interesting that even though he was deaf he seemed to be able to get round this problem also the problem with his hand must have caused numerouse problems for him,.
it was during a sketching exhibion in august 1631 that he was caught out in a thunderstorm and caught a cold which turned to influenca and he subsequently died.
A view of a sketch i did from the Royal Festival Hall a few weeks back, it may be ready now for a painting, I know the perseptive is not really acurate but one has to allow a bit of artistic licence.There might be a blog later today but wanted to test this one out as i got a funny messsage on my email about status or some such....
That is whata I am calling them at present(see title) I am doing lots of these sort of sketches in my current sketchbook and even though not drawn direct they are reresentive of something this one has a railway platform fell to it.
Have been fiddiling some more with the Houses of Parliament am happier with the bridge!
One of the pleasures of keepimg sketchbooks on holidays is that you can look back and very often use them as memory joggers, they somehow seem to envoke more than photos as you very often include how you were feeling on that particular day,
STUDIO PARIDISIO
I stayed at the above Place in '03 and remember it as a very pleasant holiday. The hosts were Barbera and David with theire son Jason who was looking after the art side of things that week, they usualy employ seperate tutors for each week, so making for a varity of styles to choose from.
The actual villa was a charming place very Italian and you can probably see more from the link. Happy Days!
This encaarstic painting has a almost science fictiom feel to it, to my mind you could be looking out of a cave to a distant planet in space. This by the way is a recent encaustic work i am still trying to decide whether to persue this as a project at some point or not,
This painting is of tower bridge and is really about texture of paint,,,,hopefully you can see it is tower bridge and means something for you. you can see a earler sketch book tower bridge in a previouse post.
Please note it has come out a bit darker but it still showes what i mean...
This painting is not finished by any means but it is sort of working a bit dark in places but then that adds interest
Spent this morning in Chichester as is my thing on most Saturdays and found myself doing a very fine art thing of taking a picture of some tar on a pavemement, interesting pattern though.
Waterstones were having a book signing by someone who had written about local Jazz in chichester took photoof band playing otside
Have not shown many New york photos here, These from the trip made there last march. Theses are near central park.
I love the way there seems to be things on top going on, part of the architecture of course
It was quite cold then and snow still on the ground in Central Park.
Please note that though there appears to be two blogs for yesterday there is in fact only one the Savoy blog is in fact todays.
As a bonus have found another link on whistler
Eagle Wharfe
As part of my Westminster To Tower bridge research I have been Looking at Monets London paintings of the Thames and smog link(new scientist)
image from Christies
Monet painted Sun Breaking Through The Fog' in 1904, from the window of his hotel room in the Savoy
Web Musum. Paris
It is worth quoting a passage from Peter Ackroyds excellent biography of London, Vintage
page436 quoting Monet on London Fogs.
"Then, in London, above all what I love is the fog....that gives it its magnificent breadth. Those massive,regular blocks become grandouse within that mysterious cloak."
Whistler's Nocturnes
Just a brief blog on Whistler I need to do some more research on this. He called his night pictures Nocturne because of the use of very little paint. Whilst still oil they were indeed almost watercolour also very few coulours again the metopher with music was very clear to him,
Whistler also made some interesting Studies of views from the Savoy as the link below shows
Pigeon
Monet also stayed at the Savoy and the picture shown is of Waterloo bridge painted in 1900
Waterloo Bridge
Comming right up to date TheThames Project
Kurt Jackson did a whole series of paintings featuring paings of thames and publihed a interesting book on his sketches
When I was out at about 10 this morning the air was so fresh you would think it was winter. it was so clear and crystal sharp that it was mind blowing in a dazzling sort of way, I had my camera with me and took a couple of shots. I always wonder where these planes are going and comming from!i think one had just taken off from Heathro or Gatwick(5Omile away) Perhaps the plan was America Bound?(Second Pic)
anyway hear is another one to finish Off
I have started a new blog on the themes of 100. My first theme will be doodles
artythings100
I hope hope you will find the experience interesting, there may be other thems comming up in the near future we will wait and how this journey develops.
I seem to be in experimental frame of mind, many years ago I whent through a envausatic phase yjough fairly pleasing images i was never entirley satisfied with doing them as they were done quite quickly. So reinvented for the 21st centurey i have been doing some more and produced some interesting things. i will show you another one tomorow.
The sea has always been magical for me and i could never imagine never having seen the sea as some people in the middle America must experience.
Cornwall has rugged cliffs and dramatic scenery and this painting is probably based on this. Cornwall has always drawn many artists to its shores. Perhaps one of the most famous schools of artists was the Newlyn School of Painters. popular in the 1880s and 90's. it could be said that the arrival of the railways from about 1877 opened up the whole area and opened the way for tourisim
