‘Just three words’

Having been unable to spend time painting recently, managed to get back on task and complete the first of this series. Purchased 25 canvasses yesterday and have been priming them in readiness!

since last postings managed to get an hour in the studio and go mad with brush and paint, managed to turn around ‘grin smile laugh’ almost to original starting point, happy with the use of white instead of the dark blue (although photo image looked brown – I am crap at photography, should get Rhysbaker to do the photography thing for me!

couple more layers of white me thinks. Still unsure about red lettering – do I keep red, if so, lighten/keep the same or darken? do I go back to the original white as intended – a lot more work and thinking, further updates tomorrow

Just managed to get on with some painting after day of looking after JJ
Had a re-think about current three little words – ‘grin smile laugh’ – decided to get back and work the background with white. Standing back, I’m happy with the first layer, it will need a couple more to cover the dark blue last painted. the element that I am really chuffed with is when you look closely you can see the under painting – in certain areas the reds and different blues show through.

Able to spend some hours in the studio today – roughly nine hours non stop (apart from cups of coffee). Looking around, apart from the usual mess, there were several unfinished works. I’m getting keyed up for the next series of works… just three words and 100 ways to artfully say bollocks. I decided to work on these and hopefully finish them, clearing the way so to speak. One of the ‘unfinished’ pieces ‘ wince’ has sat around for a few weeks, after the initial sketch and mapping out. I had worked out the colours – a very pale blue grey with a strong cadmium red overlay. also, at the same time, I sat looking at the initial just three words painting and as usual decided to work on that instead.. when will I learn!

Recently, some of the paintings, although successful, I feel I have been missing a certain feeling, one which I haven’t captured for a while. Well, sitting and sitting, getting up and walking around can get your brain working, out with a pencil and started scribbling on the wall – came up with it; I like to layer the surface, putting undercoats of paint which show through in the final outcomes, this was it, I went back to the painting. I originally thought that the background would be white, but after working today, I’m not sure. Then again, I’ve just had a butchers and not too happy with current state. (the blue doesn’t come out on the photo!!)
‘Wince’ on the other hand is going well, using a colour base I used some time ago, made some changes to the mix more cadmium to sharpen it.

Bad light prevents photographing next stage – the blue is a base layer. Further images to be posted.

as previously posted, started a new series of work based on three little words (influence of the Humament – Tom Phillips). Still undecided about background colour, off to have a think…