Launch

Launch

Something completely different.  Started out as a doodle and I revisited to try some effects and filters.

After Hubert Robert - View of the Port of Ripetta in Rome

After Hubert Robert  - View of the Port of Ripetta in Rome

 Stumbled across this artist Hubert Robert by chance.  What struck me about the compositions was the use of theatrical lighting. The work is a cappricio, an amalgam of multiple views juxtapositioned to make an appealing composition but not reflecting their true geographical location.  When taking such liberties with the subject matter it makes sense to throw out the lighting rules and go for theatrical lighting.  A greater treatise on this piece can be found here. 

Farmhouse

Farmhouse

Worked on this and a few other pieces at the same time which I think helped a bit.  Returning to each with a fresh eye.  This was an exercise in keeping the pallet to a few colours.

Building A

Building A

Working on this for a while.  Progress was not helped when I lost some progress by failing to save.  It all worked out for the best I think because I changed the foreground.  Anyway this was more a learning piece.  

Council meeting Spitpaint

Council meeting Spitpaint

Haven't done a spitpaint in a while.

Self Portrait oils

Self Portrait oils

Did this one as after a burst of doing portrait practice.  Looking very serious.  Entered it in the portrait artist competition run by Sky.  That was used more as a target to spur on the practice and deliver something at the end.  Sky got back with confirmation that I was not successful (no surprise). What they did was send a garbled message to me and about 400 other entrants. I know this because the email addresses were visible to all. What followed was a brief attempt be some of the recipients to get an impromptu show together.  That petered out into a hail of emails from peeps asking to be removed from the list.  The production company  was Storyvault Films. 

Skirmish-2

Skirmish

 Worked on this original doodle.  I was going to abandon it at the point below but pushed on to some sort of finish.  Seems like  I was working on this forever as I don't have a lot of time to paint at the moment.