Work in progress. I have been planning this idea in my head for some time and managed to snaffle a good photo of the
ship earlier today from a friend. It is intended to be the
P&O Aurora Cruise Ship in
acrylic on
Winsor & Newton 22 x 18 inches
Canvas Board using a mixture of
Winsor & Newton 'Galeria' acrylics (cheap and on offer where I shop for 4 x 60ml tubes (colours of your choice) for only £10,
Daler Rowney 'Cryla' artists quality acrylic with a superior pigment and colour flow (along with a superior price of around £7 for 70ml or so),
Lefranc & Bourgeois 'Louvre' which I find are a pretty good
acrylic product (and were a gift when I retired), and believe it or not
'Boldermere' from
the Works, which are pretty poor, but good enough when that's all you can afford. I can't recall if these were a gift or I bought them to try to complete a large piece which in all honesty wasn't one of my best goes. They will also do, as I work through using them rather than wasting them or donating them to a charity. So all in all, different manufacturers and different
acrylic paints. Working in
acrylic is fairly new to me, and so far, I'm finding it all good fun. My former
acrylic painting style was very much like
painting by numbers. Specific colours in modelling
acrylic and use that colour to fill a specific area of the painting. These days I mix my
acrylics and would be just as happy with one blue, one red, and one yellow, along with a white to lighten the mixed
colour or to provide highlights on an image, and a black to darken it. So the two tubs of various
acrylics that I have acquired over the years, could just as easily be 5
tubes. Using
acrylic is less precise than
watercolour painting, but some of the
watercolour techniques can transpose into
acrylic painting. Not that I care, as I'm having a hoot just slapping it on.
My social media art work in progress gallery is apparently sitting at www.facebook.com/ArtRBA or so I think that it is. I have acquired a real passion for art, and enjoy forming images through words and various solid artistic mediums such as the aforementioned acrylic painting, using watercolours, mixed media involving mono-printing ink and soft pastels, oil and or soft pastels as stand alone pieces, and various pencil work form a range of HB to 9B, to inktense pencils, watercolour pencils and good old coloured pencils. I don't sell my work, but I do enjoy showcasing it in its various forms. I also like showcasing my poetry and a small percentage of my artwork is now linked to specific poems that I have written.
