Mark’s marks
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22 – Kingfisher (work in progress)
Back to oil after a break. I now have a decent easel which makes painting a lot more comfortable. Working from a photo taken by someone else that I found online. Not aiming to copy it but using it for reference
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21 – Squashes from Lidl
Some Lidl squashes and quinces and apples from the garden with various leaves. Earlier version below. Pencil crayon on A3 watercolour paper.
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20 – Lunchtime doodle
Done with basic pencil crayons and an embossing tool (for the seedy bits). Doesn’t really stand up well to very close scrutiny – they’re only about 5cm across between them.
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19 – Warm and Cool
This is an exercise a technique that Turner liked and that I’ve not really got my head round yet
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18 – More Sepia
Quite like this one
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17 – Back to something simpler
This time I’ve gone with sepia to do some exercises.
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16 – Lake District Bridge
Did this at a few sittings and it looks like it. Some bits quite good but doesn’t really work as a whole. Light direction not consistent.
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15 – Langdale Pikes
Simplified the view a bit to make it more paintable and spent a lot of time agonising about the bracken on the left which ended up looking reasonably effective but not at all like the original photo. Struggled a bit with the wall on the right too. Got the sun in the wrong place but…
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14 – Indigo
Don’t like this one much though some bits of it have worked quite well. The bird was added to cover up a stray bit of paint.
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13 – Exercise in sky, wet-in-wet
This is adapted from an exercise in a book and involves waiting for each layer of wet-in-wet to dry properly before applying the next layer. I’m not good at waiting.
Got any book recommendations?