Paint to learn: After Andrew Gifford

26 cm x 22 cm oil on canvas paper.

Another artist I found some time ago who also paints the city, Andrew Gifford.

http://www.jmlondon.com/exhibitions/leedsbradford-paintings

Garlic

10 cm x 10 cm oil on canvas paper.

Paint To Learn; After Edward Seago.

21 cm x 15 cm watercolour

I suppose like a lot of the artists we choose to study the fluid and spontaneous response will always be missing but that doesn't stop the fun in trying.

Mousehole

This painting is part of a step by step demonstration. The last in a four part series for Leisure Painter magazine, part one is out now in the June edition.

Paint To Learn; After John Singer Sargent

I've decided to spend the next year getting to know watercolour as it's a medium I've had very little experience of so what better way to get acquainted.  I spent a year doing acrylic paintings of Liverpool, and a year doing oil still life, so time to give watercolour a bash and study the work of the masters like Sargent.

Mark Making and Texture

After Kurt Jackson

Working at the Cape with The Brisons on the horizon

Collage

Tuesday’s lesson will see us working in the style of the Cornish painter Kurt Jackson.

The painting is of The Brisons just off Cape Cornwall.

We will work in a combination of oil and watercolour styles. The lesson is focused on making different marks and getting different textures with the paint, so anything goes. I want you to concentrate on playing with the paint and seeing what happens if...

Kurt Jackson usually works on his knee or lays out very large canvas’ on the floor. We will block the canvas in standing at an angle and use plenty of water with the paint. Don’t worry about the drips, try to let yourself go and enjoy the paint.

For the second stage we will lay the canvas flat and work within the shapes we have created using both watercolour and oil techniques.

We will need ultramarine and cobalt blue, burnt umber, crimson red, cadmium yellow, white, hogs hair brushes and a painting knife.

Learn more about Kurt Jackson on

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2005/06/22/kurt_jackson_feature.shtml

Half Each

20 cm x 14 cm oil on canvas paper.