Friday 2 October 2009

Painting practice

I've had an opportunity to try out a few different brushes to see if I can get similar effects to how I used to paint traditionally in acrylics with alkyds (makes acrylic workable for longer) and gouache. I remember years ago painting large boards and using sticks to get scratchy lines! In some respects I miss doing a physical piece of art and would love either the money to rent a studio or the space to do large scale painting at home.
So, anyway, here are a couple of paintings and sketches, I'm sure I have others on zip disks knocking about somewhere but I imagine they are more dubious in quality, quite often they are done on one layer and 'scribbled' out in an hour or two with the wacom, generally if I like them I save them.