Sunday, 17 March 2013

LEGO Minifigures 62: Blue Knight

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

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm

Saturday, 16 March 2013

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...

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

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

Monday, 4 March 2013

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

Saturday, 2 March 2013

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.