I often paint sunflowers. Their bright happy faces are irresistible and their bright yellow petals are the perfect shape for a palette knife to smear the bright yellow paint on in a happy frame around the burnt umber, almost black centres. Sunflowers symbolize adoration, loyalty and longevity. Much of the meaning of sunflowers stems from its namesake, the…
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Passionate about poppies
Poppies Acrylic on canvas 30 cm X 40 cm Poppies are bright, cheerful, and colourful with crinkly paper thin petals. Sadly they never last very long in a vase as cut flowers. There is always a tumble of petals and a dusting of pollen at the base of a vase of poppies, it’s their fleeting…
Summer is here
Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface in very thick layers, usually thick enough that the brush or palette knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. When dry, impasto provides texture; the paint appears to be coming out of the canvas. Acrylic…
All things painterly…
The last while I have been trying to force myself to loosen my painting style and move in a more painterly direction. I started using a combination of palette knives and colour shapers together with a brush to force myself to stop worrying about keeping things inside the lines. Rather than relax my brushwork I…
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