Red Sky

 

This is a smallish (450 x 300 mm) oil that I began without any clear idea where I was going, except to repeat a composition I'd done in acrylics and oil pastels quite a few years ago.

Now I've stalled on it. I feel that it needs something more, but what that is I don't really know. 

I'll put it aside for a year or tow, and perhaps revisit it then. Or maybe not. 

Juggler Mime

 

This little canvas (about 150mm square) I painted quite a few years ago, mainly because A wanted something in these colours for her office, but also to try out a craquelure medium I'd bought.

Acrylics on pre-stretched canvas .

Stretcher Bars

 

I made a set of stretcher bars out of some scrap 40x40 pine for a canvas 500x500mm, not because I have any particular painting in mind, but just to see how easy or hard it would be to make them. They're not hard.

They're not enormously expensive to buy, but they're far from free, and this gives me ultimate flexibility when it comes to size and profile.

I've learned one or two things in the process:

• It would be a good idea to leave a bit of a horn on the tenon, to be sawn off after assembly.
• Also, if I put a mortice at one end of each bar and a tenon at the other, they should (I think) be interchangeable. Though that's probably only worth while if I was making a whole bunch to be assembled later. For this one I did each bar with either mortices or tenons, to minimise the chances of getting myself lost.

The bars need to incline down on the front face towards the inner edge to keep them free of the canvas, and to help with that they have a thin raised bead running along the outer edge. That was easily made in one step on the table saw.

Abstract

 

Another painting today, just because I felt like it. An abstract this time.

300 x 800 mm, acrylics on canvas.

Tree

 

I think this is about finished. I've had enough of it for the moment at any rate.

300 x 800 mm, acrylics on canvas.

Blue Folk Revival CD Cover Painting

 

This was a painting I did back in 2004 for a CD cover for my friend Peter Gatonyi's band, Blue Folk Revival. Or maybe the CD was called Blue Folk Revival. I don't remember.

Anyway, I just found some photos I took of it at the time on the fairly shitty digital camera I had at the time.

If I recall correctly, it was about 800-900mm square. Acrylic on unstretched canvas.