'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

Well that sure turned our lifestyle on it head didn't it ........

Life can change in the blink of an eye- or in my case - in the last few seconds of a catch up call with my youngest daughter. There isn't a need for details here but long story short - We've upped and moved house back to the Midlands, we've sold the motorhome and are no longer part-time travellers. There, when it's said quickly it all sounds so simple. The impact upon this particular little slice of the internet is that I no longer have a studio and any work I do is definitely no longer done under the arms of a gorgeous old oak tree. However, as it took me soooooooooo very long to come up with a name for my little practise I've decided it can stay as is for now. Also for the time being my cards will continue to be stocked in Knighton and the plan is to look for additional outlets in my new locality. My mojo, however, is something else entirely. Actually that is probably better described as lack of mojo and having half my 'stuff' still packe...

It's always nice when .....

It's always nice to make a sale, or two as is the case this week, which is an absolutely fantastic feeling - especially after a small hiatus . Firstly, one of the affordable art prints sold in Rebel Vintage, closely followed by a little original hand painted print in Walkmill @no7. I have replaced both but annoyingly I keep forgetting to take photos (or scans) of the originals before I send them off. Helen has very kindly sent me a photo of 'Summer' in situ. This is the new little hand painted print that she now has in stock. Summer 1/1 HPP - £18 Sadly I don't think I have a photo of the previous one that sold to share with you. They are both a linocut print that has then been hand painted in watercolours before being mounted and then framed in these gorgeous dinky black wood frames. This was my second carving of our spring trip and I really enjoyed being able to carve whilst on the road. I only packed a cheap black relief p...

We're on the road again

I'm currently still skipping from one medium to another and we're now back on the road again so inevitably I'll be wanting to pursue something I don't have the equipment for. I seem to have packed a small print studio so really that genre should be my focus - I don't appear to have quite got there yet 😃 I'm still tatting, as I call it. The art above, as yet untitled, belongs to the tatting category. The original resides in one of my new handmade books. Like the book, it's not perfect but I am rather pleased with it. I also finally decided upon a use for the smaller of the two books I made in my workshop. I'm using it as a little glimmers or gratitude book and will intersperse the writing with tidbits of art like the one below. In other news, a recent printmaking course will hopefully be inspiring me on the intaglio and relief printing fronts - hence the packing choices. One of the techniques explored did result in this lovely new range of cards...

Under the Oak designs