A portrait of Ailsa.
oil on canvas 12″x14″
Ailsa
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Port Stoth, Lewis
Getting slightly closer to the Eardley visuals but still not ugly enough (ugly in a good way). Closer though!
Bogside, Irvine
Trying out another couple of demos based on the work of Joan Eardley.
This is Bogside, Irvine, painted for the Tuesday group (I think) (It was last week and I forget!). It is close enough to the colours of Eardley, but a bit too stylised and not rough or wild enough to capture the essence of the work.
Irvine Shore
Irvine Shore……..oil on board…10″x10″
A brush and palette knife mixture. Cobalt blue above, ceruleum below and a mix of greys in the clouds.
Eardley exercise #3
Using the same source, I had another go at this for the Monday gang.
Slightly more ordered than last one, a sun rather than a moon, and regular mark making with the pastels.
Acrylic and oil pastel on board, 14″x14″
Joan Eardley exercise #2
Painting a copy is difficult because you are trying to mechanically emulate another’s spontaneous marks.
Painting “in the style of” another is equally difficult because the copyist has to fight with their own muscle memory marks and tried and tested signature picture making gestures to emulate someone else’s vision.
Anyway, it’s all learning!
Here is my third demo of the week to try and see the landscape through the eyes of Joan Eardley. One of Scotland’s greatest expressionist painters.
It is thinner than an Eardley, but I hope I capture the greys of her paintings and the wildness of her marks.
Joan Eardley exercise
A class demo for Tuesday group. I was looking at the work of Joan Eardley and in particular, her time at Catterline.
An expressionist painter of the Scottish landscape circa 1957-1963.
Acrylic and oil pastel. There are touches of Eardley here and perhaps not enough of her greys. The emphasis is on gestural marks, layers and textures.
