Maris Pipers

Maris Pipers

(acrylic on board, 12 x 12 in)

The first painting of the new year continues my interest in market stalls and found still lifes.

Belated best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year to all my Regular Reader. And here I must apologise to those kind people who've taken the bother to comment on my posts in recent months. Somehow the system didn't notify me of those comments so I wasn't aware of them until today and only now have they been published. And here was I bemoaning the apparent lack of interest in my blog posts!

In the next few days I'll be looking at the comments and writing replies where appropriate and then I have to make some catching up posts. A great deal happened between August and November and the work needed to post adequately overwhelmed me. 

I shall make amends. Don't give up on Boogie Street - your comments and interest mean a lot.

A Little Acrylic

Bird Table (WIP)
Acrylic on 20 x 20 cm canvas.

Although the new studio is still in chaos, I made an attempt to get some painting done yesterday. I have a few of these very small canvases so I prepared them with a variety of base colours (burnt sienna in this case) and made a start on this bird table painting.

My Regular Reader may recall it's based on a sketchbook drawing I did at Ingleby Lodge in 2015 and which I recently played about with in Photoshop. I'm still struggling to get to grips with acrylics. Instead of using medium I worked with the colour straight from the tube, but found the consistency of the different makes (and possibly ages of the tubes) not terribly compatible. Despite that, I'm relatively happy with the way things are going and am optimistic enough to want to start one or two more.