A very personal painting

This is very definitely a painting for my children. It is very personal and actually makes me cry a bit when I look at it but I love it. It is mixed media with several layers so there is also an awful lot more tucked away under those layers.

Image Transfer

I have done a bit of image transfer in the past as part of a mixed media page but recently had a go at transferring images and photos to small canvases. The level of success varies as you can see below, it seems slightly harder to transfer to canvas than just to heavy duty watercolour paper but I am getting there and learning with each one. Still working on getting a better image of the first one....every time I do it I seem to lose just a bit too much of the image when I rub off, or rather a bit of the image in a place where I really need it to stay. They are meant to look old and vintage-ey and I like that effect. I read somewhere that a bit of oily household polish on the final image can help remove the final bits of cloudiness which I am going to try. I haven't done it on these and I haven't got pictures of all the ones I have tried but I think I will try and keep a record of how they develop from now on.

Art fills my soul

Some recent paintings

I am really critical of my work as I guess most of us are but I quite like these three paintings, well at least the first two, not very happy with the third. At least I got a little bit of pleasure from something I had done in the first two and I enjoyed experimenting with multi coloured and layered backgrounds in pictures 1 and 3. It was interesting to see how it affected what I could actually achieve on the faces themselves.