A painting doesn't just happen - the finished painting may look simple as if its just come together. That's the feeling I want my work to have when it's complete. However it's a process. A process that involves, observational sketching, laying out, blocking in, amending and finally completing.
A question I've often been asked is; 'How long did it take you to paint it?'. My answer invariably is 'A few hours sketching and observing, time thinking about it, a number of hours to do the actual painting and forty years of experience'. The experience is the bit you can't quantify, but its the bit I can't do without - its experience that enables me to take things out in order to simplify and to create marks that are beautiful in themselves.
For me a painting needs to work on a number of levels - subject matter, size, mark making, colour and design. I need to like the subject first and I get real joy from creating a work that reflects how I feel about it.
The following series charts the progress of an Orchid painting I did as part of a series. Notice how changes and amendments happen along the way - the changes give the final painting a sense of tranquility which was what I wanted to achieve.
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Original drawing from life
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Drawing up on the canvas board
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Monochrome blocking in of broad areas
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Roughing in some colour as a guide
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Refining the colours and shapes
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Making fine changes to colour and shapes
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| The finished artwork (SOLD) |
