I spent some more time finishing off my pochade.
I replaced the hinges and clasp and made a brace from a couple of mending strips. I have an old camera tripod which is missing the block that is supposed to screw into the camera. So I made a mounting block out of three pieces of boxwood and [...]
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Well I made some progress today. Whether this will be worth the time I am putting into it remains to be seen. I must have spent two hours this morning seeking out the right hardware. Everything I have read insists that it is essential to replace the existing hardware with something sturdier, so I have found [...] I have been thinking for some time that I wanted to replace my antique pochade with something a little less precious. The one I have belonged to my grandfather and is at least 100 years old. I have looked at the commercially available ones and they are mostly too big, too expensive or too fancy. I [...] For more information and to see the finished painting, see My Daily [...] Well I am beginning to think that this was a mistake, that just because it worked at 7X5 doesn’t prevent it from being a monumental waste of canvas at 20X16. I guess that is pretty usual at this stage but with my smaller paintings it happens after about 10 minutes, not a week. I will let [...] So I decided to choose this one for my January Monthly painting. I have painted it twice already, last January and earlier this month, and it has been a popular subject. It is 20″ X 16″ and I hope to retain some of the spontaneity of the original while using the advantages of allowing some drying [...] This little watercolour was done about 7 years ago. I thought about it when I went out to paint this lunchtime. When I got to the spot I had chosen I realized that I had forgotten to fill up my water reservoir, so I had to resort to [...] This is the first time I have done a true WIP for an oil. It is too bad it wasn’t something more successful. OH well, here it is I was so unhappy with this that I actually went back and revised it slightly after it was posted (something I usually make a policy of [...] These WIPs are kinda addictive. Here is one for Thursday’s post. For this one I did a tonal study on site as well as the photo. It was a bit awkward because I didn’t have anywhere to sit, and there was no shade. I use a sharp white pencil to reserve small areas, it works quite well when [...] Here is another work-in-progress. The photo was first heavily cropped. The next image is just the pencil crayons before adding any water. After adding the first wash I work into it again with more pencil. I use several different kinds but mostly Derwent brand; Inktense, Graphitint and regular coloured pencils as well [...] |
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