Sunday, 5 May 2013

week starting 5th May 2013

Hi Blog readers, this week I am going to share some art that I did a while ago because I haven't painted this week, apart from some work on my commissioned piece which is nearly finished I am glad to say. I have been quite poorly for a couple of days and wasn't really up to painting and I have an assignment that I am reading up for which is stealing my creative time. Anyway I looked back through my work and decided to share this piece which is sold.

I am fond of this painting because it shows the working men's club that is situated in a street near my house and is struggling to keep going in an age where people get their beer cheap in the supermarket. It really is a lovely building that I have always admired. In this painting, have moved it near a corner shop that is also in my town. I used to get my children sweets there on the way home from school.
   I like that I can take a building from one place and a tree from another e.c.t and make a whole new setting. Not only do I take buildings and move them around, I also take people and the other thing I like about this painting is that the man with the dog and the lady with the blue scarf are people that I really saw while on a day out in Oxford. I like interesting looking people and they sometimes end up in a painting. Some characters I make up like the post box lady, the old man with a walking stick and the lady with a pram and the cyclist but now and then I do put in the people I see while out and about. I  am also inspired by looking at the work of other artists and try to get to galleries quite often.

Did anyone see the new impressionist painting of the queen by  Artist Dan Llywelyn Hall?
Some people like it and some have criticised it. I myself like it and I think he has a good likeness to the good lady. It is very hard to paint a person and one should remember that a painting will be the artists own impression . Each Artist would see something different and pick out different features that appeal to them.
 I  would like to share my own painting of the Queen that I painted  to see if I could get a real likeness to a person. I really enjoyed doing it although I am more comfortable doing street scenes, they are more forgiving. She looks younger in Dan' painting than in mine
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I hope to do some more art next week so if you enjoy this blog,  look  out on Sunday when I usually update the blog. Thanks for reading Carolyn.

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