Back from around the world…
Yes we arrived home after our three month ‘World Tour’ on the 9th April and it was so spectacular that it has taken me some time to come down to earth again!
Alan Kidd – featured artist at Obsidian Show
During the forthcoming exhibition ‘New Year, New Artists’ at Obsidian Art Gallery I am delighted to be the featured artist!
Simon again wearing a green corset
Simon sat for us again! I spent an enjoyable three hours painting this, a great pose with a lean to one side and a green corset.
You be the judge! – first sitting
Last week at our portrait group we were lucky enough to have The Rt Hon Judge Chris Tyrer come and sit for us in full regalia!
Simon is going on holiday to Devon
Well I didn’t really believe I would get my painting of Simon into the Threadneedle Prize at the Mall Galleries!
Simon is going to London!
I have somehow got through the first round of the Threadneedle Prize – well they want to see my painting ‘first hand’ anyway!
Head of Sonja – finally patinated
At last I have got around to patinating Sonja! After a somewhat chequered journey, as you can read from the previous posts…
Clay Head of Sonja – Finished at last!
I think I have done all I can to finalise the head of Sonja, it has been rather a bumpy ride with some unplanned problems!
This week I entered the mini-digital age!
After visiting the David Hockney exhibition at the RA last week I decided to experiment with digital images on the iPhone.
Clay Head of Sonja – Day 5
I worked at home this week and decided to try a new approach, to coil-build the hair as a separate bowl shape and apply it to the head once it had hardened a bit.
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