Latest Work - boxes and canvas art.

Large 5x4x3 box and small box 4x3x2 with original vintage interiors. Using books, newspapers and magazines dating from 1845-1912. Outsides are found objects from necklaces and belts covered with tinfoil then painted with acrylic and top coat of bitumen. varnished with gloss varnish. Legs are wooden beads.

14x8 deep edge canvases texture is polyfiller with various childrens stamps used to make swirls and marks. Onion net pushed into polyfiller then smoothed to show net. Acrylic paint including bronze, gold and metalic blue. Bitumen makes the dark shades. The net goes over the edges. Gloss varnish. The colour shifts on these depending on the light.

6x6 deep edge canvas, acrylic paint, dayglow pink and gold. Over polyfiller and used a stencil for the swans. Bitumen used again and gloss varnish.

Study in Turquoise

This is the canvas that was in the Art in the Garage blog.

So now it has been through two lots of underpainting. top coat of metallics finished. Will varnish after its really dried out.

I am in a phthalo turquoise mist at the moment. Soon that tube of paint will run out. I purposely have not bought another or I think I will just paint more. Its such a yummy colour. Its Atelier Interactive. Metallics are Galeria by W&N they don't make them any more.

Birthday walk

Today I am a year older but , probably, no wiser!!! Such a lovely day i went out for a walk, 3 1/2 miles around the Suffolk / Essex border near my home. Took a couple of pictures of flowers, well weeds but they are pretty.

Then these next ones are of some poppies in the very early morning sun in my back garden. Just as I took them, all I've done is cropped.

Next one is just because I know we all love Molly, but some times she is such a stinker, she got into my bath, after me of course. Another of those fox poop days. Just look at the colour of the water, she loves a nice hot bath and just sits there being soaped and massaged.

Art in the Garage

So its onto canvas art and painting again. Dunelm Mill has got 30x40 canvases at £11.99 so I treated myself to one. Just going to see how it hold up and then will go back for more if ok.

Here it is after texture has been put on.

Texture is house paint, normal emulsion matt, with wood glue (lots at least 1/2 500ml bottle) water and pollyfiller. Mix until smooth, I don't mind the odd lump. Then paint on and slosh around as you like.

Other canvases done at the same time and my mannequins. They are waiting for inspiration from me. I have 4 modern and one old one. There are canvases hanging from the rafters too.

Going to auction on Tuesday, there are three lots of art materials...................... boxes and boxes. Plus 67 canvases. Will I spend too much money, probably. Anyone want to come we could go shares on the lots????

Final Rupert pictures - for the moment!

Well after a lot of snipping and sticking I have now come to the end of this series. But only for the moment, my brain just needs a rest from Rupert and Fairy land. These are the last ones.

This last one is a homage to an art site I belong to. At the moment I can't get on ther as its showing a malware infection. And yes I have run all my scans and cleaned my caches. So any LMM members could you be a sweetie and upload for me. Thanks.

Contemporary Art Girls come to visit

Well it was a coldish day but cheered up when cherry and Linda came to visit. we had a great day. talking art, men, life and looking at my garden.

Heres some pictures. Cheery Cherry.

Lovely Linda

And as they really are!!

That was fun playing with you in Corel Paint Shop Pro girls ;-))

Are these Two Naughty Boys???

Rupert finds a Morse Code machine and sends a message. His friends Algie, Bill, Pong Ping and Podgy look on to see what will go wrong!

The other naughty boy is typical 1950's humour, but do you know a naughty boy like this??