New Page

Progress on my paintings has been slow, but I am working again and have set up a new Facebook group page for my work. You can see it here...

https://www.facebook.com/paintingsbygm/

Starting over...

To bring things up to date, 3...

These are all still quite a way from being finished and they're all at about the same stage, needing at least one more colour glaze and the detail picking out. They're all quite small too, the largest being 50cm x 50cm, the smallest 20cm 20cm. I paint just about everything at 1- 1 scale, so the roses in the paintings are about as big as roses, the magnolias as big as magnolias, etc... if you get what I mean.

To bring things up to date, 2...

These two are both larger scale pieces with months of work left to do and I don't expect to finish either of them anytime too soon.

To bring things up to date...

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I finished this one a while ago...

And this one's nearly done.

What was the last thing I posted?

Did I ever even post this finished? Click the image for a larger view.

http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/the-cribs/video/be-safe-mtv-session

I keep promising myself that I'll sort this blog out... I've finished a few of the paintings that are on here as works in progress, reworked one or two that I'd thought were finished, and am starting some new work, so it would be good to try and bring it up to date. I will try and sort it out, but I've been saying that since last summer and not got anywhere.

Don't hold your breath.

I'll try and update this blog soon. I'm spending most of my time at the studio working now, where I don't really have internet access, so I don't really have the time or opportunity to update as regularly as I used to.

Nearly finished.

London Art Fair

I've decided to let the work that I finished for the exhibition go. There are four smallish magnolias, all untitled, going to London Art Fair with Beaux. The fair takes place in Islington and will run from the 19th to the 23rd January.

For any further information contact Beaux Arts.

Open Studio

Still no progress.

My studio will, however, be open to the public this weekend as part of the Newlyn Arts Festival; so if anybody in the area is interested in seeing the work from this blog in the flesh, there's an opportunity.

Studio 3
Trewarveneth Street Studios,
Trewarveneth Street,
Newlyn.

Still a world away.

You might have noticed that I've not updated the blog for a while. I'm afraid that there's nothing to report. I'm not working at the moment and have had to cancel the exhibition that was planned for next year as a result. I'll keep you posted.

Getting nowhere...

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Slow going.

Not much to report. I've been finding it a struggle. Put another colour glaze on the branches of this one.



And started two new, small cherry blossoms, rough underpaintings; washed in black...

Apologies for the lack of updates recently. Progress has been slow, despite the hours. I'll get some shots of the work that I've done on the large magnolia up soon. Until then here's a first layer of underpainting on a new, smallish landscape. 46cm x 46cm.

I've been working on the two big paintings this week... As I still can't update regularly, I'll post before and after shots to give you an idea of the progression.

Click on the images for larger pictures.

The painting as it was.


More work on the sky, softening edges and cleaning the whites (which isn't really visible in the photo) and more work on the foreground, bringing out the greens and sharpening the detail. If I remember, I'll post some detail shots next time. There's still a long way to go with this one, but it feels like I'm getting there.



First colour glaze.


Second colour glaze. Painting the whole surface again, cleaning up the colour and contrast; using smaller brushes to bring out detail. There are a few bits I need to re-work, to bring them up to scratch, but I need to get the whole colour layer down first, so the I can see what's going on with the painting as a whole.

I still haven't sorted out an internet connection, so updates are few and far between at the moment. Finished the next colour layer on this one. Still needs another coat on the sky and a bit of work here and there. I'm currently working on the big magnolia, but haven't taken a picture...