51. Waiting
40cm high x 40.5cm wide
Acrylic on deep edged canvas
2013
£185
Exhibited at the Eagle Gallery “The Garden and Beyond” Andrew Naish one man show 12th – 19th October 2013
Exhibited at Eagle members show 3rd Feb– 1st March 2014
Exhibited at The Workhouse "All Creatures Great and Small" exhibition 4th - 29th Feb 2020
A day up at my uncle’s in Belper was a chance to sit in his garden and take in the late summer sun and paint. As ever with painting live, the sun changes and travels around so you sometimes worry that parts of the picture have different shadows. The dog positioning was rather serendipitous as he wasn’t there when I started. Indeed I was at first more concerned that he was moving the chair around that I was trying to paint, when he arrived but I soon realised he was worth photographing to be added at a later date.
The post-production on this took slightly longer than I had hoped, the piece needed sharpening up – but I couldn’t quite get it sharp enough. I even worried that I needed a better centre of interest thinking that I would have to go back up and photograph the back up someone’s head sat in one of the garden seats. The other thought I had was to add a mysterious figure or reflection in the window. I ended up by adding clarity to the window reflections and re-doing the pale yellow and red flowers top left.
Acrylic on deep edged canvas
2013
£185
Exhibited at the Eagle Gallery “The Garden and Beyond” Andrew Naish one man show 12th – 19th October 2013
Exhibited at Eagle members show 3rd Feb– 1st March 2014
Exhibited at The Workhouse "All Creatures Great and Small" exhibition 4th - 29th Feb 2020
A day up at my uncle’s in Belper was a chance to sit in his garden and take in the late summer sun and paint. As ever with painting live, the sun changes and travels around so you sometimes worry that parts of the picture have different shadows. The dog positioning was rather serendipitous as he wasn’t there when I started. Indeed I was at first more concerned that he was moving the chair around that I was trying to paint, when he arrived but I soon realised he was worth photographing to be added at a later date.
The post-production on this took slightly longer than I had hoped, the piece needed sharpening up – but I couldn’t quite get it sharp enough. I even worried that I needed a better centre of interest thinking that I would have to go back up and photograph the back up someone’s head sat in one of the garden seats. The other thought I had was to add a mysterious figure or reflection in the window. I ended up by adding clarity to the window reflections and re-doing the pale yellow and red flowers top left.