ArtRba Photograph: Malta, Acrylic on plywood.
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Whilst this one was finished earlier today and ready to be gifted to a friend; I have several other pieces of art currently on the go. Well, I sort of write 'several', almost tongue in cheek.
There's an A4 ish sized watercolour of Venice, in which I am about 3.5 hours in, when I just had to set it aside and wait until I'm back in that zone. There's the construction lines for something around A3 size, depicting the Old College and Sky from a close and low viewpoint. This one will be drawn and painted using Inktense Pencils. There's another Inktense and Watercolor Image of an African elephant on 14 x 10 paper, but alas like the others this is also unfinished. There's something around 10 x 8 in watercolour of the Thames and one or two bridges. Setting this one aside created a problem, as the dried masking fluid tore the expensive paper and damaged the surface. In the soft pastel range; I have a portrait (yes unfinished) and a landscape which I set aside half way through. There's also a repaired huge canvas that nothing has been done on, and there's the detailed 'Grand Canal' scene in Inktense that turned from being a 'labour of love' into just labour.
So 'pushing on' with the Malta image over the last few days has been a rewarding experience. Using a palette knife can be so liberating. Better still; the image fits in with some mark making stuff that I've been doing.
