Today's session has been an experiment in some techniques I haven't used before. To start, I used the cerulean blue to express the mid-tones on the figures. I didn't completely cover the layers already painted, including the original light blue wash. You can still see parts of the canvas showing through, giving it quite a rough feeling.
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
The parliament paintings - the water carrier
Monday, 4 July 2011
Reworking an old painting
I'm preparing for another trip to South Africa next week and I want to get as many paintings as possible finished. Luckily the painting gods seem to be on my side as I completed 'Selkie Woman, after Rackham'. A selkie is a mythical shape-shifting creature; a seal that can shed it's skin and turn into a human. Humans fall in love with selkies only to find that they are missing later on; or some humans hide the seal skin so that the selkie must stay in human form.
I loved this image from Arthur Rackham the moment I saw it. It's taken a while to complete but here you go!
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