Thought I would be brave and do a mural straight onto the wall. This happened to be the fireplace, left as a black space for far too long.
And turns out its the perfect little alcove for the Christmas tree 🎄.
Nice.
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Tree mural
acrylic
Starry skies – paintings
I really liked the sunset baobab trees painting so did another sunset one. And an extra one to create more stars, thought they looked quite nice together.
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New painting – Black with white trees
Even though I had all my colours out ready, it was a two tone picture that wanted to be created instead. I like it very much.
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New painting – cosmic skies
Starry skies are still the favourite at the moment, using acrylic. This time, just space.
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New painting – Baobab Trees
Another of last weeks creations, I’m quite taken with acrylics again and doing trees and stars. This time trying to do baobab trees. I saw them when I went to The Gambia years ago and have always wanted to try painting them. Not bad for a first attempt, but I hope to get better.
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New painting – starry night sky
Having tried all weekend to paint and coming up very short of my own expectations, I finally found my groove last thing on Sunday night. Back on the acrylics and night skies and getting into the new pack of colours I treated myself to.
I don’t think I will be waiting until the weekend to do more, as I have the bug again. There is a another busy week of work ahead so will try and squeeze in some evenings so I don’t lose the momemtum. Although the photo is ok, have to say, it looks better in real life and is propped up next to me at my desk now as it’s super pretty 🙂
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Black and white paintings #1
Turns out I really do enjoy painting trees, and with the new style I’m doing it requires a black, white and grey painting first before the colour glaze is added after with oil paints.
I have decided to keep a couple of them without colour as they are very pleasing to my eye, it’s thoroughly satisfying being able to create these. Just finding the time is difficult at the moment.
Light, shadows, depth and perspective is something I have always wished I could do with drawing or painting. I finally found a medium I can explore that with. And mixed with another favourite, nature.
There have been a few other experimental pieces which I’ll share over the coming days. Some have worked ok, some not so much, but still have something about them. We’ll see where it goes from here.
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Painting – Purple Artic Winter
Trees and colour are my favourite, it’s nice experimenting with different techniques. I have a habit of over doing it, so I love the simplicity of this one.
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Painting – mountains
This is one of my early acrylic attempts mountains. It didnt turn out exactly how I wanted it to but I really like it and find it calming. I did it in a panel on canvas but may try it again on it’s own.
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Learning to paint #5
It continues. I have some metallic acrylic paint too so had an experiment with that.
I love the boldness of the colours, but still need to get the hang of stars. Splattering paint looks easy but…
I thought this one was a right off, until I added the metallic overlay and attempted my first palm tree. I was really chuffed with it in the end. It seems to be the pieces I think I have ruined, I then relax and don’t worry about ruining it! I need to be more confident it will turn out ok.
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