New Acrylic Painting

 

Round the bend to Slaithwaite

 

 

14x10 Acrylic Painting.

 

A scene of the Huddersfield narrow canal near Slaithwaite, I changed this scene a little bit just to make it more interesting

Hope you like.

 

Some close ups

 

 

New work in progress

                              Started a new painting of the Huddersfield canal near Slaithwaite

 

You can go to the Acrylic Tutorials Tab at the top to see how this painting started and managed to get to this stage.

Will be continuing with this painting over the next few days

                                                                        Lock 27e


Just finished this painting of lock 27e on the Huddersfield narrow canal, had loads of fun painting this one but must say at the start i thought it was not working but got there at the end.

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Painted on Daler Board 10x14.

Acrylic Landscape Paintings

Just a few of my acrylis i thought i would put on You Tube.

New Acrylic Painting

                                 OK not plein air but painted in my very small painting room



                                                                   Running Late

 

Running late is a totally fictitious scene painted from my mind with not picture reference of a working canal narrow boat heading for the near by village before it gets too dark.

 

Painted in acrylics as always, size is 10x14 on canvas board.

 

I quite like it, what do you think

Stay Wet Palette

                                                                    Stay Wet Palette


OK a bit about the Stay Wet Palette.

After reading about them on the net i see that many don't like them , the main reason for this i find is that the colours tend to go quite watery / runny ! i found this to be quite true but also found the way round this that seems to work well.

From the start with my stay wet palette.

OK this is what i do when i change the paper in the stay wet. I use 3 sections / squares of paper kitchen towel and place it in the palette first then lightly spray it with water but remember it is only a light spray to dampen it and not soak it, then i cut a piece of greaseproof paper or baking parchment as it is sometimes called and also spray this as well as it will stop the ends curling up when you place it on top of the paper towel, then just wipe of the excess water if need be.

I found that it is necessary to re-dampen / light spray the paper towel every couple of days if it needs it but it is still quite damp then dont , doing it this way i find that the acrylic paints stay usable but at the same time do not go watery .

 

Above picture is my Stay Wet Palette by Daler Rowney with the clear lid on

and below without the lid

 

 

 

 

It also fits nicely into my pochade box as you can see below in the picture,

even with the lid closed.

 

 

Before i go , i use just ordinary kitchen paper towel and standard baking greaseproof paper for use in my stay wet palette, much cheaper than the spare papers sold by the manufacturer in the art shops or on the net.

Works Great.

 

 

 

My 1st Painting of Lock 39e

                                                             Just thought i would post this.

                                                                          Lock 39e

 

I remembered that some time ago i painted Lock 39e ( the one above ) from photo in the studio. Looking at this painting prompted me to go in search of the real lock 39e once more and paint it there and then, even painting from a photo i still changed things a bit .

 

 

 

 

This is the one i did plein air, looks a totally different scene, i think because when painting plein air you tend to use slightly different colours maybe , i don't know.

 

 

Well here where i live in Yorkshire the winter is starting to draw in with much cooler weather, I am a cold arse and just hate winter months. This leads me to think about painting plein air which you might have guessed has gripped me quite a bit , typical with the weather turning cold. I know there are many painters out there which would still enjoy outside painting in the cold but not me , so what to do about it this winter.

 

This got me thinking last night while on the net and i stumbled upon a blog that had a link to a blog about using Google street maps as a sort of virtual plein air painting reference, i thought this was a good idea and something i had not thought of, would this be sort of cheating ? but it would keep me warm.

 

Does anyone else use street maps as a reference to virtually painting plein air , the only problem for me anyway is that street maps don't go down canals which is what i enjoy painting the most but this will make me paint other subjects and may well open a new avenue .

 

Food for thought, well for me anyways.