Thick and goopy!

Eynsham Arts Group Spring Exhibition is now over. Lots of nice things was said about my painting 'The Ascension of The Malingerer' but it large size is still an issue. I have been painting the Morris Paintings at "living room size". I still struggle painting at this size but since the weekend have found laying the paint on with a bamboo kebabs skewer allowed me to get the paint down thickly and to a certain extent play with it's texture.

'Modern Art Oxford'

Entry to 'The Oxford Open' Exhibition was unjuried at 'Modern Art Oxford'. So we arrived 40 minutes before the doors opened to find that there were around 30 people ahead . During the wait staff came along to measure our work to make sure we fulfilled the metre squared limit. We were amazed to see people bring in work well over size. Graham, Sue and I were interviewed for the local paper. I, as usual, lost all power of reasoned thought and gabled. We are in and for me this is the first time I have had a picture hung in a real gallery. On the news they said that there were over 400 entries for day one of submission.

My entry was 'The Ascension of the Malingerer". Click on the label below to see all the development work for this image.

'Accension of The Malingerer'

Crayon, Watercolour paint and Gum Arabic
49. x 65. cm

Malingerer Update

The picture is slowly developing. I have at times tried to speed up my work to no avail. I need time to think before I paint.

Further Work on the Malingerer

Close up

First Lick of paint

Started painting today. I am feeling my way as I go along. This is the first time I have tried using crayons for a painting.















Close.










Closer
Sorry the focus is fuzzy but I find taking close ups to be difficult. It does allow you to see some of the mark making







The artist tools or "messy Mum" as my daughter says. I spent some of my early years being educated in America and a new box of Crayola crayons each "Fall Term" gave me much pleasure. A friend sent me a link to the American Crayola site as I was moaning that the boxes were bigger and better there.
http://www.crayolastore.com/product_detail.asp?T1=CRA+52-0029

Crayoning the Malingerer

I am going to use an old technique learnt when I was a little girl. Crayola crayons being the best to lay down initial colour and then painting over with watercolour paints.



The wax resists the paint and the possibilities are endless.

Malingerer again

Have decided to paint this scene again for myself. The drawing from last time has been finished now and I am now drawing up a big watercolour (65 cm wide). The original painting was small ("Has to fit between the port holes.") which made it difficult to explore mark making.

Malingerer

This watercolour painting was commissioned by my friend Iain as payment for him putting in a new shower.









A patron of the arts.

The Ascension of the 'Malingerer' Drawing

Drawing for a commissioned painting.