Hi Blog readers, just checking in with this weeks update.
High Street ,Stony Stratford by Carolyn Boddy
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This painting took some time to do and was from a photograph of Stony High street. The town is very famous as it was an old coaching town and still has many historical features like the cock hotel and the bull public house which is just down the road. This is where the saying cock and bull story came from as by the time a slightly drunken person had wandered from the cock hotel to the bull public house, what ever gossip they'd picked up had become distorted somewhat. This painting shows the art gallery ( a favourite place of mine) and the estate agents with the road curving round.
This week I did a small bit of painting and a lot of studying plus I Spent some time away from home at a Hotel in Bedford. I chose it for its Tudor beams and for the fact that it overlooked the river. Very nice hide away for myself and my husband to go to as we celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary.
Last Thursday evening I met with fellow artists and I really enjoyed our evening together which was fun because we painted portraits of each other on large paper with large brushes and limited colours.
Time was limited to ten minuets per picture which meant we had to work fast. We had a real laugh
trying to capture a likeness but the experience was liberating as there was no time for fine detail. As a rule I do faff about with tiny brushes and small detail but these portraits lacked features that you would ideally capture( like eyes, noses etc.). I feel I can not share the outcome which in part could be giggled at yet all seven of us had a go and each picture held a special quality and I really enjoyed the company of my fellow artists and the experience of doing something different.
As you know I have started to write a bit in my blog about other artists because I feel the blog will be more interesting if its not just about me. This week I want to mention a surreal artist called Leonora Carrington. I am interested in her work as she is a woman artist and was very famous although not in her home country. She was born and grew up in England but was not really recognised here but was in Mexico where she was a bit of a hero. I am not really a fan of surrealism in general but her work is intriguing, resembling images from a dream.
The Licentiate by Leonora Carrington
Her work is quite amazing don't you think? Anyway she was very unhappy in parts of her life and lived as a recluse after breaking from her German lover around the time of the war. I do think that artists live on the edge a bit and that the part of them that allows them to feel and paint what they feel is also a quality which means they feel too much and as such are very sensitive people. That's just my opinion and I think it applies to musicians as well. Any way thanks for reading and if you do wish to you can follow the link to buy this weeks art and keep a look out on this site for more artwork and news from the art world.
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