New work in progress

Some fun with this one, I used a photo of Ab Lincoln statue and a Banksy rat with sun glasses.

A small mouse somehow worked it's way in bottom right too!

This is the base for a work in progress, I wanted to get a feeling of dried mud and will then build a primitive design on top (probably!)

lots of brown gloss with water based varnish on top prior to being fully dry gave the nice cracked effect. I worked some red acrylic into the varnish to add a bit more colour.

I left three behind

These three pieces are in the Beams Gallery, at Fisherton Mill.

I have some more work which will be displayed on this blog shortly

All wrapped up

The Exhibition was a great success and everything is now packed and wrapped and if sold it will be delivered very shortly.

I have three paintings remaining on show in the Beams Gallery at Fisherton Mill which is adjacent to the main studio gallery where the exhibition was.

Thanks to everyone that helped and purchased for the support and encouragement.

Bringing Zappa home

Last few days of the exhibition

I have to remove the four large paintings on Friday as that is the only day I can have use of the van.

The rest I will pack up on Saturday afternoon.

I might see if I can leave one or two small paintings in the shop area, if there is available space.

For example, this one, which I have just completed, is only 290x360mm, looks good with a bright silver alumium frame

Swapping some paintings with new ones

I decided to put these five new pieces in the exhibition as there is still a week and a half left.

There are some paintings that I will remove and others will move around to make more space, two of these are quite small so should have plenty of room.

The aluminium frame on this one is dark green gloss (almost black) and looks great.

Goodbye Mr . Pink

This is one of the new pieces I am taking to the exhibition for showing in the second two weeks up until 4th September.

This is on canvas and I'll leave the edge painted without a frame. I just got the aluminium frames delivered for the others.

Nobody like Mr. Pink so he has been laid to rest underneath this painting.

You can still make out the movement of the arms and legs, and some of him still appears where I have sanded down.

The original Mr Pink ...

OK fair enough!