'Winter' Acrylic series

'Winter' Original Art cards and Framed Pictures

My husband always refers to my art as 'neat & tidy'. I know it's not a compliment, although (to be fair), it's not a criticism either. It's his honest observation, I do feel a need to be neat. This often manifests itself in a fineliner of some description being used to outline watercolour (or acrylic) flowers for example. Because I am aware of this 'abstract acrylics' do have a permanent place on my to-do list. This past week I have ticked this off and, much to my delight, I'm quite pleased with the results.

Working on Daler Rowney 190gsm Acrylic paper, I used a mixture of soft body acrylics applied with palette knives and brushes, an acrylic pen and my lovely ArtGraf Viarco Taylor shape in white to add the highlights. I felt something was missing so I added stamped flowers and/or shapes as the finishing touch. For future series I am hoping to carve my own stamps to use. And yes, I did say future series because I enjoyed this so much that there will be more.

Winter Waves

Winter Hills

The set is of eight paintings, two of which I have framed as a matching pair. The remaining six have been made into blank greetings cards but sized so that they can be easily framed by the recipient. All are available for sale. They are currently on show/for sale at the wonderful 'Walkmill @No7' If you are interested in purchasing any please get in touch, either with Helen at Walkmill or directly with myself via the contact form on the right of this page.

The framed paintings are priced at £8.50 and the cards at £3.50 plus any postage and packaging that may be required.

Thank you for reading, please feel free to leave me a comment.

Wendy x

Comments

Anonymous said…

Lovely to see all your wonderful hard work on line!

24 January 2023 at 19:59

Putting it out there

Plasencia Dreams 1&2 So, scarily, I have today placed a couple of nicely framed originals for sale in my local fine art gallery (as seen above). I let the proprietor set the price and so this experience is a new one for me. I'm viewing the whole thing as an experiment that I'm going to try to enjoy and learn from. I thoroughly enjoyed crafting these hand modified prints (HMP). They started life as a print of a watercolour I painted during our Autumn 2021 trip. Early in the trip we'd stayed just outside Plasencia towards the bottom end of the Jerta valley. A lovely cycle path ran from our campsite to the Presa del Embalse where my sister-in-law and I had spent a lovely afternoon wandering around and swimming in the lake. Later in the trip, when we were parked up and chilling just outside Isla Cristina for a few days, I'd grab my paints each afternoon as the temperature rose, and slowly but surely I painted one of my favourite scenes. Presa del Embalse de Palsenci

Whales Ahoy

Whale-Sing Matilda - SOLD Heading to Walkmill @N0.7 this week we have 'Whale-Sing Matilda' Perhaps I need to apologise for the title I've given it, who knows lol. I absolutely love this picture. It's the result of a little bit of digital artistry by myself. The background is a scanned in copy of a watercolour I painted in 2022 which I never finished - as in I never painted anything in the foreground, quite typical of me I'm afraid. The gorgeous blue whales are digital copies of a linocut I carved whilst on our travels this spring and which I'm struggling to frame the originals of at the moment. However, the second I combined these digitally I knew I was onto a winner. Limited to an edition of 20, the print itself has been hand embellished to accentuate the golds and silvers. N o 2/20 has been mounted in a simple black frame and will be available in town from Thursday. With my digital prints I do print them one at a time nowadays but never go over the or

Hello and welcome

A glimpse into my studio - Hello there! It's taken me a while but I've finally started work on my online presence to accompany my creative journey. To be honest this post is pretty much a place holder whilst I work on constructing the galleries and links to my online shop. For a while it will remain the top blog post and I'll update it as I go along. Hopefully when all the construction work is completed the blog posts will be used to reflect where I'm at creatively and share some of my experiences. I have started work on my online shop (hosted by Sum-Up) Eventually you'll find pages for cards, limited editions, originals and a full gallery listed at the top of my Home page. These will detail the art work that is available and will provide a link to that item in the shop. If you'd like to just go straight to the shop then please follow this link here . I've no idea how many folk I'm likely to reach but hopefully it will be fun finding out, and please

Under the Oak designs