Blue Party - digital picture

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Blue Party - digital picture. Self Portrait.  Playing in Photoshop.

Incredible Indelible 2 (Poem)

POEM: “Incredible Indelible 2″

Incredible Indelible.
You taste really terrible.
That makes you inedible.
Shame.

POEM Amateur Technically

POEM: “Amateur Technically” 

Amateur Technically
Trying for some poetry
Don’t know what they’ll think of me
Crash and burn

Adventure artistically
Never thought you’d ever see
Hidden gifts inside of me
Keep on trying

Door detail in acrylic

Acrylic on canvas board 8″x10″

Finished piece:

Stage 4 - Nearly finished:

Stage 3 - First glazes:

Stage 2 - Underpainting: 

Stage 1 - Drawing onto board:

Crab Apple Study

Study of crab apples and acrylic glazing technique.  On canvas board 9″x6″.

Study of Acrylic Glaze Technique

Study of an apple following a lesson in glazing in acrylics. On canvas board 6″x9″

The first painting I feel actually proud of for more years than I can count.  Amazing what a bit of application and and a bit of guidance can do.

UPDATE 18 Mar 2007: I see a lot of people searching for information about acrylic glazing technique :)  Here’s  a link to the lesson I followed off the WetCanvas forum.

 The steps are embedded within a loooonnng thread of discussion which is old and closed now - but keep trawling through the pages - all the steps are there. 

I learnt a lot just from this one lesson - I never painted a picture like this one before that lesson!  Have fun.