In this studio vlog, I am switching it up between shaping wax sculptures and working on large oil paintings. I made a huge patch of yellow oil paint, and you can see me using it on several canvases. I often paint on several canvases at the same time. Yellow is one of the first colours of spring. The plants outside have …
The blue canvas with the interesting patina and abstract clouds has been drying since December and is now ready to be worked on. I think my paintings need time between sessions to assimilate themselves and decide where they want to go. I have to be patient with them. I added a red shape inspired by a smaller canvas, and things were going well until I got caught in a painting pothole and couldn't
I found this image in a German art magazine and was captured by the movement in it. The narrative is about a saint on a journey. Sitting here in the studio, a year into the pandemic, I realise that the idea of travelling has become so alien to me. Ironic, considering that Christopher is the patron saint of travellers. I made a promise to myself to go and find this Patinir painting in the flesh when all this Covid is over. What’s happening in the painting is just as interesting. Patinir’s treatment of the …
It’s a day for ducks. The rain is lashing down outside while I’m trying some thin line drawings on canvas. I have been thinking of introducing thin lines for a while, and my sketchbooks are filled with drawings in this vein.
The drawings just have to manage to jump from sketchbook to canvas now. Even if they make it across, I will probably rub the lines out or paint over them in the coming days; who knows...
