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Studio and Painting in Progress

We have cleaned out the end of the garage and have turned it into a "studio", This photo is an overview (featuring the front of my car in the foreground).

This photo is a close up of a workbench that I'm currently using.

This is the latest stage of a painting in progress. An earlier stage is illustrated in the previous post.

Flimsy and unstable, but cheap.

During the Christmas/New Year Break I made a start on the biggest painting I’ve attempted. Until now I’ve used small canvases and canvas boards. At times I felt restricted by the size of the canvas which tended to make me strive for more “neatness” and cleanness than I felt capable of achieving.
As a trial I bought some large, cheap cardboard sheets and moved my “studio” away from the dining table to the garage floor.

This trial has probably been inspired to a degree by the work of Ian Fairweather, a recently discovered favourite of mine, who painted on some very flimsy and unstable materials. If it was good enough for him, and the galleries who bought his work – surely cardboard is a good enough medium for a beginner’s trial and error attempts to learn how to paint.

So far I’ve enjoyed the exercise and see its value. It has allowed me a greater freedom at little cost and I haven’t felt the restraint of trying to fit a big idea into a little space. I’ve also felt less need for neatness. Smudges, inconsistencies and crooked lines don’t seem to matter so much on the larger surface. So far the only drawback has been the cardboard’s desire to curl due to the wetness of the paint and, I assume, the atmospheric humidity.

The work in progress is looking very rough, but it is showing me the possibilities and giving me the confidence to invest in more suitable, yet more expensive, materials to create something with more permanence. I can also see the possibility of experimenting with ways of improving the weaknesses of what I’ve done so far, and because the cost has been minimal, I don’t have so much pressure to get it right.

Crossing Jordan

I like the idea of this painting but I didn't get it right. I'd like to try it again one day, maybe on a bigger canvas. The addition of "Jericho" in the top left didn't do this attempt any favours - it merely threw the perspective even further out. However, I REALLY like the colour of the ground. I think I learned a lot through my use of the paint there.

Australian Art Glass: Jon Firth

Painting With Light.

I came across this today, and even though the idea goes way above my head I found it interesting. There are some beautiful artworks in the gallery.

http://www.marklawrencegallery.com/pages/the-painting-with-light-technique

Infusing Paintings with Holy Scripture

The Painting with Light technique is an innovative new digital art process that Mark Lawrence uses to literally infuse scripture verse from the Bible into his artwork.

Mark wanted to find a way to incorporate into his Bible verse inspired paintings the actual words from the scripture that moved him to create each painting. After several years of trial and error, he refined a high-quality image rendering process that he could use to digitally re-paint each work using the exact words and text from the Bible verse as the digital paintbrush.  (complete article at link)

Australian Art Glass: Eamonn Vereker