Thursday, July 28, 2011

My Studio (ex lounge) - a work in progress.





my hallway

Works from top left - of 12 works, 6 are mine;
1. drawing bought in st ives
2. just under it - a charcoal landscape copy i did last yr
3. my first oil portrait done in 2009/10 copy of a  known artist
4. photshoped layered pic of john
5. nude white chalk on black paper i did last year
6. under oil portrait - watercolour and charcoal copy of same landscape at no 2
7. drawing of kim i did using grid method
8.  framed birthday card from john - beautiful cutout book artists - i was doing book making at the time
9. under no 5.   drawing i bought in hastings because it looked like me in my 20s thinking in the uni caf
10.  bottom left - very bright acrylic by an 8yr old that i bought in hastings gallery - i am going to follow him and his brother
11. my portrait teacher sells his work for 1000s.  Even his print in royal academy summer exh this yr was £300.  So i got him to demonstrate for me and i kept his demo -you can see where i got style of some of my portraits from.
12. small life drawing i bought from a friends exh in hastings - 2 people enveloped in each other so their heads become one beautiful tangle of lines


Life Drawings - epxloring styles













Portaits - trying out different styles










Most expensive print hand coloured - by Margaret Harrison Feminist artist from 60s still working

Landscape - i bought this 8ry olds work cause it was promising

Portrait - i bought this as it looked like me in my 20s

Portraits - my first oil painting - copy of a painting of nelson's bird

landscape








Ink portrait

Kim

its a start - first sold work