Two Works in Progress

WIP - Aerial View

(Acrylic on canvas board, 12 x 12 in)

WIP - Crossing the Square

(Acrylic on canvas board, 12 x 12 in)

Two works in progress, both views from a tower in Verona. One begun yesterday, the other creeping to completion. Both with issues to resolve.

WIP: Crossing the Square

Crossing the Square WIP
(Acrylic on canvas board, 12x12 in)

Another new one blocked out yesterday. I’ve always loved views from above. In this case, I'm working on a photograph taken from a tower in Verona.

 

Moli des Comte, Ciutadella, Menorca

Moli des Comte, Ciutadella.

(Markers in A5 sketchbook)

Not the most appealing viewpoint, but the only one that didn't involve being run over. I thoroughly enjoyed my week's holiday in Ciutadella, the old capital of Menorca, but found it difficult to do any drawing. In part because of the usual inertia, but also because like Verona, it's a town of very narrow streets that make drawing difficult.

 

Greek Doorway

Greek Doorway

(Mixed media on board, 12x12 in)

Completed using some of the billboard scraps collected in Verona as well as acrylic and crackle paste. I think I find this kind of textured painting more satisfying than any other because there’s always a little thrill at seeing some of the unexpected results of this process.

 

Billboard Scraps

 

A good haul from the old billboards of Verona. Last month on a walk round Borgo Trento, the Art Deco area of Verona, I was delighted to find a few billboards with umpteen layers of old posters ripe for the picking. When I got them home, I was a bit disappointed because they are mostly quite faded, but they’ve proven very useful as collage elements on the painting I was working on today.

Verona Side Street

Verona Side Street

(Markers in A5 sketchbook)

My first urban sketch in a very long time. I intended to do more of this in Verona, but one of the problems I found was that the side streets are very narrow and most of the interesting parts of buildings were high up. It's quite difficult trying to stand in a busy street (all streets turn out to be busy when you're not looking!) looking upwards.