LEGO Minifigures 63: Red Peasant

It's another peasant with a pitchfork! Wonder what he's up to?

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm

Repairing a painted canvas (acrylic)

Oh, darn. 

No Parking featured on the front
of  the Bromley Book.

I put a screwdriver through a Very Important Painting, two days before the exhibition. The Very Important Painting is No Parking. The exhibition was the Bromley Arts Festival. No Parking is a key piece in the Bromley Project. (I was using the screwdriver to attach some hanging hardware. There was a knot - a stealth knot; it was not the most obvious of knots - in the wood, and my screwdriver slipped.)

But darning it wouldn't quite work.

I did a bit of research. I asked for advice in an online forum.
And this is what I did to fix the painting...

T-Shirts

I got a selection of t-shirts printed up (exceedingly small print runs - of one - at exceedingly small prices. I don't know how Vistaprint do it), and I thought you might like to see them. I have too many, so I could well be looking to sell a few...

The Bromley Arts Festival: a day in a shipping container

Yesterday was the Bromley Arts Festival. It was cold but dry, and the good people of Bromley turned up in plentiful numbers. Quite a few came to see me and my paintings in the shipping-container-turned-pop-up-art-gallery.

The Bromley Project book now available on Amazon

You can now buy my most recent book, The Bromley Project (a day in Bromley), on Amazon.

Ice cold in Bromley

Just a quick post to say "Hello!" to anybody who picked up a card or a leaflet at the Bromley Arts Festival today, and to tell all and sundry that - despite sub-zero temperatures (it was snowing, a bit) - the Arts Festival went very well, and I even managed to sell a few paintings, a couple of postcards, and one whole book*!

Primary Pair - SOLD

This isn't a "standard" minifigure painting. It's a bit bigger, for a start. Nearly 6 times bigger. And of course there are two figures. It was also painted (partly) with a knife, and I restricted myself to the CMYK + white palette that I have adopted recently for acrylic knife-work.

Bromley Book Preview

'Tis only a week until The Bromley Project hits Bromley - one day only in a shipping container in the Market Square - and, amidst all the other preparation, I only just realised that the accompanying book had no preview set up.

This has now been remedied.

The Bromley Project by Amanda Bates | Make Your Own Book

LEGO Minifigures 62: Blue Knight

The Plan lurches on. The blue knight is part of it...

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm

Some more framings

I need to do some varnishing (acrylics) and probably a bit of "oiling out" (an interim measure for the oils, involving putting a thin layer of linseed oil over the surface), but here are a few recent applications of frames to two paintings and one drawing...

LEGO Minifigures 61: Red Knight

Another part of my plan. Knights are known for moving curiously. This fellow looks like he might take a few steps forward before sidling this way...

And watch while the queen/In one false move/Turns herself into a pawn

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm

LEGO Minifigure 60: Red Tower Guard

The red team have a tower, too... and someone to guard it!

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm
03/03/12

LEGO Minifigure 59: Blue Tower Guard

The blue tower is well-guarded by this little fellow. He's part of my plan, too...

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm
03/03/12

Some Framed Paintings

Now that I've taken down my Tadley Library exhibition (I sold a triptych - Green 2 Orange), I have been able to unite a couple of the paintings with frames that were ordererd for them but which got confused in the process of being delivered.

Oil Pastel Rescue Squad - part one

Before...                                           and after

A while back, I painted Lemonade, but I was never entirely happy with it; the bottle was the wrong shape and its proportions looked funny. But I had allowed the painting to dry, and spreading new oil paint over the textured areas of the painting would not, I decided, work very well.