acrylic painting

Studio 365: Day 258

Day 258 iv

Monoprint I 15.9.15

Day 258 ii

Monoprint II 15.9.15

Day 258 vi

Today’s acrylic palette: Yellow Ochre, Naples Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Hooker’s Green, Phthalo Blue, Payne’s Grey. Today’s paper: YUPO – a new paper which I have been experimenting with, as you may have noticed.  I like it a lot.

Studio 365: Day 227

Not at home, so…

Day 227 iii
 
…here is another find from the studio bottom drawer from a series of visual puns I had been having fun creating some years ago. This one is entitled, not surprisingly, Knot a Painting.

As I’m away this weekend here are a few more images in the same vein, which some of you may remember…

knotapainting ii     notapainting

…together with a story I wrote in April last year in response to a Writing Challenge to craft a story in Fifty words .

Homage to Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis

Knot at Home

knotathome

Gregory awoke, still seated in his armchair, newspaper in hand.

Something felt very different.

He knew he was knot the same.

“I am in a giant Perspex box” he thought.

He remembered a book he had once read about a man becoming a fly.

He knew it didn’t end well.

not at home

Not at Home

…but home tomorrow.

Studio 365: Day 203

Day 203 ii

The Yellow Field

A painting from a few years ago (acrylic on canvas, 78″ x 64″) while we visit our beautiful new granddaughter for a couple of days.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half

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Cypress Alleyway Half and Half

Half photograph, half painting of Cypress Alleyway, Castello di Reschia in Umbria, Italy.

Reschio   Cypress Alleway

The original photo and painting

You can see how the painting was developed from a charcoal sketch to the finished work here in a previous Weekly Photo Challenge:Layers, which I also titled Birth of a Painting, in November 2013.

Studio 365: Day 185

Santorini ii

Sensational Santorini

On this the eve of the referendum in Greece I thought Day 185 on thechangingpalette would be a good day to post this painting of Santorini from our memorable visit there in July 2000. We have so much to thank Greece for in our modern world that has been shaped by its philosophers, its culture and its history. For this great birthplace of democracy lets hope tomorrow leads to better days ahead.

Santorini

Journal  8.VII.2000

Studio 365 is on the move this weekend visiting our beautiful one-week-old granddaughter.

I’m totally smitten 🙂