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16 October 2014

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ness art group

the last 2 weeks at the ness art group I had a go at painting, acrylics, from a photo, I keep pushing on and I feel quiet pleased as for me I think it is not too bad, for me you understand, there are others who can do much, much better,

these photos are of a sunset over Tarbert Harris one summer evening in 2000/01 as that is when I lived on Scalpay and this was the view from my house, fantastic isn’t it I have never lived anywhere before with such amazing fantastic views, the first one is the one I used as a source for the painting,


now the painting, ofcourse with my limited knowledge and lack of great numbers of paints I didn’t have the right yellow, I needed a Yellow Ochre, so this is how it looked when I came home from the meeting last week,

this is later in the week and this is as far as I could go without the yellow ochre,

I got a tube at the Colour Factory Friday, the last one phew, this is with the right yellow now and it is as far as I am going with the painting, no Turner I know but for me it is better than I think I can do so I am happy,

Now I am going to have another go to try some ‘bleeding’ I’ve been told I should let the colours ‘bleed’

And sorry not to have posted any textile stuff, I have done some, done my jan journal, I have been playing with Tyvek, never used it before but this melting can become a bit compulsive!!!! must take photos and write about it,

Posted on Island Threads at 21:51

Comments

Bleedin' lovely without 'bleeding' IT!

Flying Cat from top left corner - WOW!


Hi IT, marvellous photo and good shot with the acrylics. Hard to do much without yellow ochre! Thanks for posting your stuff for our delectation.

Barney from Swithiod love your stuff


thanks FC,

island threads from lewis


I love that last (finished?) painting. I love the lights and darks and the yellow cloudlight and that indigo violet sky. I really like it.

edie from tiree


Your painting is as glowing as the photo, IT! Great stuff.

Jill from EK


Very nice IC - its so difficult to get blazes of light into paintings - I'm struggling with flames at the moment, so understand what its like ... I didn;t realise you could bleed acrylics ... :-) though I suppose if they're mixed with water its not so different from watercolour ...

soaplady from struggling also ...


Is this you trying to capture the youth, with your references to Bleeding In Love, the leona of Lewis girl, who had a hit with it. Any excuse to say bleeding though...

Tws from Somewhere on Lewis


Beautiful sense of light!

Conni from NJ


thanks everyone for your lovely encouraging comments, SL I didn't know about bleeding either and must make time to have a go, I have been told you can use acrylics watery like water colours but they dry much faster and are permanent so go careful, edie the indigo violet sky is in the photo but doesn't show as much (it is light reflected from distant clouds, I wanted to include it and make more of it remembering that the Impressionist movement used the complementary opposite in shadows to make the subject 'sing' so I wanted to use the violet in the distant cloudy sky to bring out the yellow more,

island threads from lewis




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