Art in progress, day six

Beauty Shared

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The painting is finished now, but I will keep looking at it and I might make some changes in one or two week’s time.

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I have lightened Audrey’s face and hair this gave me a good chance to change things.

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I have also lighten the darkest shadows on the horse and put some light paint in the centre of his eye.

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I used broken brush strokes in parts of her hair and near her fingers. This is to try and create a sense of movement.

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I will use broken brush strokes more in my next painting on this blog.
I am going to paint Audrey Hepburn when she is much older. I am also going to leave the horse out!

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Art in progress, day five

The painting is not finished yet but I have done a lot of work on it since the last posting.

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I have added red paint to the horses’ nose to draw it forward and blue paint has been added to other parts of the horse to push it back. There are also many other colours added to the white of the horse.

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Different colours have been added to the girls face, I am trying to get the expression right.
The face is to dark at the moment, when I lighten it I will have a chance to modify it again.

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I have added blue paint to the green grass on the horizon and lighten the lower part of the sky. This is to create a feeling of distance in the painting.

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Hopefully the next time you see the painting it will be finished.

Art in progress, day four

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I have now covered the whole canvas in paint the difficult part now begins.
Painting in this way is very easy but it can look as though you have painted by numbers.

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I am now going to take a little bit of each colour and mix into every other colour.
This will unite the picture together with a bit of luck.

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Most of what you can see on the canvas now will be painted over.
I find it very difficult to paint something right first time, but the great beauty of oil paint is that you can change things.

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It looks as though I am going to get a lot of trouble with ears, eyes and mouths in this painting and that’s not counting the horse.

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Art in progress, day three

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I have painted the horse in just the two colours, mixing black and white together.

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I am a great believer in keeping everything simple.

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My aim is to cover the whole canvas in a type of monochrome and only then will I add other colours.

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In my other blog I have linked my painting and poetry together, the classical artists of the past believed there was a link between the two.
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I try to paint poetry and write pictures they should both tell a story.
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The truth is always beautiful
And beauty always truthful
Hopefully!

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“It’s a horse Jim, but not as we know it”

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Art in progress, day two

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I like to get the eyes right first, but they are not right yet and I have decided to leave them.

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The painting is still in monochrome of ochre and white for the skin, burnt umber and white for the hair, blue and white for the sky.

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Brown paint dries very quickly this makes life difficult. I have to paint the blue sky in now when the paint is still wet because I want soft edges.
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I can see I am going to have a lot of trouble with eyes, mouths, and ears in this painting and that’s not counting the horse.
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There is more art on my poetry blog at
http://www.quantumartandpoetry.blogspot.com/

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Art in progress, day one

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My blog does not get up dated very often because I take a long time to complete a painting.

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Because of this I am going to put my art on the blog at different stages of completion.

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I hope this will be interesting for people who like painting or who just loves art.

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I paint the part I find most interesting first, normally the face.

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This will be like a lesson in how not to paint.

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I only use two colours at this stage with a small brush and my fingers.

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Audrey Hepburn, oil painting in black and white.

Waiting for Immortality.

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This oil painting is in black and white I believe it makes the painting more dramatic, like old black and white films. I love drawing in pencil and painting in one colour is very similar.

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I set up the composition all wrong her head should be off centre towards the right. I tried to correct this by adding the curtains on the right-hand side.

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The painting might have looked better if I had simplified by leaving out the drapery in the background. But it was lovely to paint I used long broken brush strokes so that the canvas would show through.

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The sunlit part of her skin has been left unpainted, like in a watercolour painting. I was hoping it would look like radiant light, there is no harm in hoping.

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