Free Trade (work in progress - 1st day)
I find that having several paintings on the go is the best policy for me: I can switch from one to another as I choose and gradually move each one to a conclusion. It's a system that does have its drawbacks, in that sometimes I feel none of them will ever be complete and there's no denying that some pictures go off into a kind of limbo, waiting for me to revive interest in them.
However, that is the way I prefer to work, and I haven't felt that there were enough paintings awaiting attention at the Art Club of late. So I started another one today. This is a painting of the Free Trade Inn at the mouth of the Ouseburn in Byker. I started with an orange PVA ground again and fairly quickly established the general colours I wanted.
Getting back to regular work is proving very difficult this month. I probably won't be able to work on this or any of the others at the Club for the best part of a month because of various commitments on Thursdays.
Tomorrow I'm off to York for a few days, so no posts from me until I get back. Stay tuned.
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6 comments:
Hi Harry
This is a nice piece.
Have a great time in York.
Regards
Thanks, Trevor. I'm meeting up with friends from round the country - enjoyment guaranteed, I reckon!
Hi, Harry. Just found your blog - I didn't know you had one. It is a long time since we sat in the same art room with Mr Doxford...
I love your subjects - many of them I have photographs of from similar locations, like Burning Bush for example, and it is fascinating to see the subtle ways in which the artist's eye rearranges things.
Hi Ian -- good to find you here! When I think back to Doxford's lessons I often wonder how I ever maintained an interest in art. But then, by and large, academics have never served me well.
...well 'lessons' is putting it a bit strongly, don't you think?
I know what you mean, but I think I learned a great deal about surreptitious sherry drinking from Mr Doxford.
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