tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89132438874954129092024-02-01T22:51:52.484-08:00Lorna Webber's ArtblogPaintings and random comments by Lorna WebberLorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-55823366557953792342021-03-15T08:29:00.002-07:002021-03-15T08:29:37.188-07:00Online Exhibition now on<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> "While We Wait"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">https://www.rga-artists.org.uk/wait-exhibition.html</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">See my entries here: https://www.rga-artists.org.uk/wait-webber.html#lorna-webber</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHB6isKgk9DVnMigI8Qr-gNKF6Fve3IcdSMPlW3fksrvqRkwIH4ULkYV2YVW-ib0duDiL6erLWEF3CR4ACbA1OsN0sJN0No4uPBqRAw3Akz7abJOjxrsOPIIO-OBY4hMgYNi5-qhnEPi8/s800/wait-exhibition-poster-800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="493" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHB6isKgk9DVnMigI8Qr-gNKF6Fve3IcdSMPlW3fksrvqRkwIH4ULkYV2YVW-ib0duDiL6erLWEF3CR4ACbA1OsN0sJN0No4uPBqRAw3Akz7abJOjxrsOPIIO-OBY4hMgYNi5-qhnEPi8/w493-h493/wait-exhibition-poster-800.jpg" width="493" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-30462462811498664232021-03-02T09:00:00.001-08:002021-03-02T14:02:20.863-08:00Welcome<span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">To view my galleries, just click on the page headers on the menu bar above. Click on any image to enlarge it.</span></span></span><br />
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These are the little creatures that live underground and come out at night to tidy up the parks and woodlands.</span></span></p><span class="normal comment_text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><img alt="Bumbaloos 1f M.jpg" height="546" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/31588/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px !important; vertical-align: middle;" width="409" /></p></span>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-29904385106944273922020-07-18T14:54:00.001-07:002021-03-02T15:02:07.231-08:00Flowing again<p><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Further experiments with connection of shapes and lines in the landscape.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A study for a painting I started some months ago and got stuck. I thought I might try to apply my current thinking about big shapes, flow and 'active' passages of paint. I'm basing it on a scene from a trip to the Isle of Wight last year, when I went sketching at Brook Bay.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="IoW beach LW.jpeg" height="296" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/31058/320" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="290" /> <br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="Brook Bay plan.jpg" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/31059/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: grey; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqF0Hget__-oAnuOB89vB-WQMnb6qYjxK6Ti7FPDSwCfjRDMBspi3RYhrFyuLy1dCDqrHVRw1khiPHMuIbxYJiCWzN6PDoMwcVMFNT4mthmSOTVpC9c__ROipB6BZNbQPC4my7CgDS0K8/s1094/Jly16+Lorna+6+Brook+Bay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1094" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqF0Hget__-oAnuOB89vB-WQMnb6qYjxK6Ti7FPDSwCfjRDMBspi3RYhrFyuLy1dCDqrHVRw1khiPHMuIbxYJiCWzN6PDoMwcVMFNT4mthmSOTVpC9c__ROipB6BZNbQPC4my7CgDS0K8/w400-h395/Jly16+Lorna+6+Brook+Bay.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Brook Bay, IoW<br />Acrylic on box canvas 50x50cm</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="background-color: grey; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOgeXx4GdGJ7KJZLJf5r5NClMH7wxzqDV0kZT5DYAatyo-BebcQGKqJjyZx6Oka2L0vRdr-nooxxkCXTFUJaaDT-M9GcdRyngwtFBeGgR-XiTcYJHdD9gJGnIj4PIYI6AfCcP7ktXL7g/s1920/Jly16+Lorna+5+Half+Tree+panorama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="1920" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOgeXx4GdGJ7KJZLJf5r5NClMH7wxzqDV0kZT5DYAatyo-BebcQGKqJjyZx6Oka2L0vRdr-nooxxkCXTFUJaaDT-M9GcdRyngwtFBeGgR-XiTcYJHdD9gJGnIj4PIYI6AfCcP7ktXL7g/w640-h232/Jly16+Lorna+5+Half+Tree+panorama.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Half Tree Panorama</span><br style="color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Acrylic on paper 45x18cm approx.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-82257014403374315612020-06-29T14:45:00.001-07:002021-03-02T15:05:26.019-08:00Flow<div class="separator"></div><p><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Here are some more 50cm canvases where I'm aiming to emphasise the continuity and connection of shapes and lines in the landscape.</span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt2HlDwth5-VLqXMidErlF2ObJ0XvPFZCZzioDpMlgGOQqiuXNNLIkhyphenhyphenAxe-neiN-jyzPCEh7t-UaIiiCjcLF7Qv9-SVJjAjSCIWaruo2bO7NqtmkxhsyGV4AFeLnGs701vAJEcTPaPvA/s1088/Thornberry+Tree+L+Webber+%2528L%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1088" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt2HlDwth5-VLqXMidErlF2ObJ0XvPFZCZzioDpMlgGOQqiuXNNLIkhyphenhyphenAxe-neiN-jyzPCEh7t-UaIiiCjcLF7Qv9-SVJjAjSCIWaruo2bO7NqtmkxhsyGV4AFeLnGs701vAJEcTPaPvA/w400-h398/Thornberry+Tree+L+Webber+%2528L%2529.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"> Thornberry Tree<br />Acrylic on box canvas 50x50cm<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFcyCQYuUIHI3yZ-LFR5EpxzfB46iiRCfgJGroKT-3jBowYFW8FG6iQLTdno-4BzRiQwM_U_IwMHJVYKn5XImUa9rl-7f537wtZsKhaXaXtUH853BhOQrwfudcRMojfs610F7foMBAvo/s1080/Wild+VineJourney+L+Webber+%2528L%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFcyCQYuUIHI3yZ-LFR5EpxzfB46iiRCfgJGroKT-3jBowYFW8FG6iQLTdno-4BzRiQwM_U_IwMHJVYKn5XImUa9rl-7f537wtZsKhaXaXtUH853BhOQrwfudcRMojfs610F7foMBAvo/w400-h400/Wild+VineJourney+L+Webber+%2528L%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; text-align: left;"> Wild Vine Journey</span><br style="color: white; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey;">Acrylic on box canvas 50x50cm</span><br /><br /><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey;">I decided to try something more close-up. I was remembering a sight that I came across on a painting course in the Isle of Wight last year. In a lovely walled garden, there was a tree with green apples, possibly Bramleys, with the sun shining through the leaves. I liked the green-blue colours, contrasting the transparent, warm yellow-greens with the more opaque, cool blues. I also wanted to get some idea of the movement of the leaves.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" />Here's my photo of it<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /></span></p><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-74s42r3v" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-74s42r3v" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Apple plans L.jpg" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/31047/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-radius: 2px; border: 1px solid green; display: inline-block; padding: 3px;"><a href="https://pmp-art.com/lorna-webber/gallery/302000/apple-tree" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="gallery image" src="https://pmp-art.com/gallery/image/gallery_image/302000/medium/_v=779641593175693" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div><span style="background-color: grey; color: white;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /></span></div><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-74s42r3v" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><br /></span></div><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-74s42r3v" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><br /></span></div><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-74s42r3v" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey;">These are the plans - I changed the shapes further down the line, because I felt I was too fixated on the circles. In fact the photo shows that although the apples are spheres, you rarely see a whole circle shape. Most shapes are interrupted by overlapping leaves or branches.</span></div><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-74s42r3v" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><br /></span></div><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-74s42r3v" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey;">Another massive struggle to get this to how I wanted it.</span></div><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-74s42r3v" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey;">I realised half way through that my plans weren't simple or clear enough. I also found that I was getting stuck on certain shapes and it was only when I painted them out, I was able to move the painting forward. </span></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: grey;"><br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizK5iKxUag3y_8wg7RXvEe1HeEGOpM31WKyEkzEFWjkjGO8xlLL32QE0gTtQ4tENchIvPxPMNLH81chQ1Ocxj-Z9U2cjXSDmlrhbNr2zZpY33b74eyyh7GHsvwnlPXgXP1bMMY5FScRh0/s1080/Jly16+Lorna+4+Apple+Tree+b+%2528L%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizK5iKxUag3y_8wg7RXvEe1HeEGOpM31WKyEkzEFWjkjGO8xlLL32QE0gTtQ4tENchIvPxPMNLH81chQ1Ocxj-Z9U2cjXSDmlrhbNr2zZpY33b74eyyh7GHsvwnlPXgXP1bMMY5FScRh0/w400-h400/Jly16+Lorna+4+Apple+Tree+b+%2528L%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; text-align: left;">Apple Tree</span><br style="color: white; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey;">Acrylic on box canvas 50x50cm</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><p></p>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-43960437289147541572020-06-26T14:34:00.004-07:002021-03-02T14:41:42.041-08:00Flow in the landscape<p><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">This was inspired by a photo shared by Rosalind Amorin. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Here's the planning sketches, with some colour tests.</span></p><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="Valley plans.jpg" border="0" height="459" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/31036/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Valley plans.jpg" width="308" /></span><div><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">It took me quite a while to do this, I kept adjusting here and there and changed it quite a lot. I re-drew the first plan a couple of times because it didn't seem to be working too well, and the plan at bottom left is the one I was working to in the end.</span><div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0iM_tWrPOOuTJbJ7HHnoO0Uztqns8vVGCK_TssQIysHucjZjGR3Y8omMfSvshocZp7l-rgVy4Z4i-nLZqiahboAqbdZFOwdqCBwcV60s6g6vtjzcvkBHeQdSoxl2JpL9xjX96h8mjDuQ/s1080/Wilder+L+Webber+%2528L%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0iM_tWrPOOuTJbJ7HHnoO0Uztqns8vVGCK_TssQIysHucjZjGR3Y8omMfSvshocZp7l-rgVy4Z4i-nLZqiahboAqbdZFOwdqCBwcV60s6g6vtjzcvkBHeQdSoxl2JpL9xjX96h8mjDuQ/w400-h400/Wilder+L+Webber+%2528L%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white;">Wild Valley<br />Acrylic 50cm square<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-45813936077083618132020-06-26T10:36:00.010-07:002021-03-02T14:01:04.726-08:00Inspired by Barbara Rae<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">My first attempt at a landscape <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;">à la</em> Barbara Rae. I spent a few days on this. It seemed to me that her paintings are made up of a few large, well-composed shapes, made exciting by the use of lively and complex strokes and textures, variations of hue, tone and intensity. She uses oils and silk screen. I tried to get the effect in acrylics.</span></div><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span class="normal comment_text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey;">Plans for the painting, which I based on a landscape photo by Craig Johnson (shared with permission)...</span></p><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-7rty6rm7" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-radius: 2px; border: 1px solid green; display: inline-block; padding: 3px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://pmp-art.com/craig-c-johnson/gallery/117530/the-journey-home" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="gallery image" src="https://pmp-art.com/gallery/image/gallery_image/117530/medium/_v=779641382669853" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> </span></div><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial;"><img alt="Path Home Plan.jpg" height="376" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/31046/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="224" /></span></div></span><span style="background-color: grey;">Acrylic on box canvas 50cm square...<br /><br /></span></span><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgriILec61QikcEZWRDMqMbjd8BH4G5RD4V_FT4BnusnnkzJKB1uDu844kRtqQrbsdipNVD3xC5092LpJhTSCzOavZupmremD7KyGSFA-qFIvlvMOoet6LKsXq7nO4OhehEodjyYVKZEZY/s1080/The+Path+Home+L+Webber+%2528L%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="613" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgriILec61QikcEZWRDMqMbjd8BH4G5RD4V_FT4BnusnnkzJKB1uDu844kRtqQrbsdipNVD3xC5092LpJhTSCzOavZupmremD7KyGSFA-qFIvlvMOoet6LKsXq7nO4OhehEodjyYVKZEZY/w613-h613/The+Path+Home+L+Webber+%2528L%2529.jpg" width="613" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">The Path Home</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-15907460702361320202020-04-09T10:21:00.009-07:002021-03-02T13:58:47.906-08:00 More Viral Art Club<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Further exploits from Sarah Holliday's Viral Art Club.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQ_x6QwTaPnHdcoIEgRsLXjPNdc1iRvVEx1zIRgFg8YA-ck20x89QNusLorRls4GgC2MCizmSPA9rydj4jBvIVaclAQK5R2C3e-R713Neh0b9byEs90yCDWNlW75jdT5CjCBMNAY5woQ/s958/ViralArtClub+%25287%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="845" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQ_x6QwTaPnHdcoIEgRsLXjPNdc1iRvVEx1zIRgFg8YA-ck20x89QNusLorRls4GgC2MCizmSPA9rydj4jBvIVaclAQK5R2C3e-R713Neh0b9byEs90yCDWNlW75jdT5CjCBMNAY5woQ/s320/ViralArtClub+%25287%2529.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="807" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BlcOdkJnlnIP5LtXUmv4XYBfB-nFoSpYG08ffe93QtStuxPCbgaP2ioqmveTfdPD49aod13jn6IhbczETP5TI9XflbmkZHBTJFeBDdzkaJUT2fYgdmpTWTr6p0zi4KZ2htXOtQII79M/s320/ViralArtClub+%25289%2529.jpg" /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: grey; 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color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhyJKrLDcVaAoWnIvOVAmq2Fa3Tp4ShBqPWKH8zpHlqpWr3__3SeQFwArHQoszroQGIavIzJUPLUyTc07bPn8PBNVweBMucL2zgF6xvH-FupWevwNV0lkIgfTwULO9yK0REsObPxqeHCs/s1615/ViralArtClub+%252812%2529+%2528Large%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1615" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhyJKrLDcVaAoWnIvOVAmq2Fa3Tp4ShBqPWKH8zpHlqpWr3__3SeQFwArHQoszroQGIavIzJUPLUyTc07bPn8PBNVweBMucL2zgF6xvH-FupWevwNV0lkIgfTwULO9yK0REsObPxqeHCs/s320/ViralArtClub+%252812%2529+%2528Large%2529.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1142" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNDKYDROwyeQWBu74x_UfXkaBzbZ75jKw13urAkVRPx2sgs3mLkgruTg3OAN1-v2DjEUp8ryH_rGubnMuBHfhVKS4BmxDeS5u196NvLw-0VQHF3IEMH5O3vXzYzlMutvYZYaJqqAFl8BE/s320/ViralArtClub+%252811%2529+%2528Large%2529.jpg" /> </span></div></div><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-34095304534787975292020-04-02T10:13:00.007-07:002021-03-02T13:55:47.062-08:00The Viral Art Club<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">I have started following an Instagram project called Viral Art Club.</span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white;">It's a daily art exercise, being set by my art mentor Sarah Holliday. She is a member of the prestigious Royal Watercolour Society. Wonderful artist and teacher. Anyway, if you use Instagram and feel like taking part, it's open to all ages and levels of experience and is completely free. Look for @viralartclub</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">1. Line drawing of a daffodil 4B pencil (no shading). 2. Contour drawing of lily in pen.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="20200329_1330181.jpg" height="309" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/30660/800" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="306" /><span> </span> <img alt="20200329_1330182.jpg" height="351" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/30661/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="296" /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /></strong>3. Using line weight to describe the fall of light. 4. Shading to describe the fall of light.<strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /><img alt="20200329_1354572.jpg" height="341" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/30662/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="294" /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span> </span> <span> </span></span><img alt="20200329_1437382.jpg" height="340" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/30663/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="317" /></strong></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><br /></strong></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><span>Working dark to light with charcoal.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" />Cover the paper with charcoal and lift out the light with a putty eraser. If needed, put back some dark with the edge of the charcoal. Then, negative shape lilies.</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /><span face="Open Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial;"><img alt="20200330_1440472.jpg" height="329" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/30665/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="302" /> </span></span><img alt="20200331_1440473 Large.jpg" height="325" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/30667/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="325" /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span face=""Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Backlight</span></p><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="ViralArtClub 8.jpg" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/30681/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span></div>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-70413932017676240242020-02-02T10:03:00.011-08:002021-03-02T13:54:49.084-08:00Portraits<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Decided to go with a few quick portrait sketches.</span></div><div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://pmp-art.com/lorna-webber/gallery/293607/quick-draw-portrait-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></span></span></p><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-s83f7tod" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-radius: 2px; border: 1px solid green; display: inline-block; padding: 3px;"><a href="https://pmp-art.com/lorna-webber/gallery/293609/quick-portrait-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; cursor: pointer; outline: none;"><img alt="gallery image" src="https://pmp-art.com/gallery/image/gallery_image/293609/medium/_v=779641580738875" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-radius: 2px; border: 1px solid green; display: inline-block; padding: 3px;"><a href="https://pmp-art.com/lorna-webber/gallery/293611/quick-portrait-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="gallery image" src="https://pmp-art.com/gallery/image/gallery_image/293611/medium/_v=779641580738875" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div></span></span></div><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-s83f7tod" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-s83f7tod" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-s83f7tod" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-radius: 2px; border: 1px solid green; display: inline-block; padding: 3px;"><a href="https://pmp-art.com/lorna-webber/gallery/293608/quick-portrait-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="gallery image" height="400" src="https://pmp-art.com/gallery/image/gallery_image/293608/medium/_v=779641580738875" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="302" /></a></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-radius: 2px; border: 1px solid green; display: inline-block; padding: 3px;"><a href="https://pmp-art.com/lorna-webber/gallery/293610/quick-portrait-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="gallery image" src="https://pmp-art.com/gallery/image/gallery_image/293610/medium/_v=779641580738875" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div></span></span></div></div>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-82329084220722073302019-04-02T10:01:00.013-07:002021-03-02T13:52:16.537-08:00More Lino Cuts<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Lino cut based on my drawing of a tree in a road in Reading, Berkshire. A4 size (approx 8" x 11.5")</span></span></div><span class="normal comment_text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; color: white; font-family: arial;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey;">The drawing, made with silver pencil on black paper, is on the left. Obviously the lino print is mirror image.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><img alt="Parkside Tree.jpg" height="400" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28650/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="283" /> . .<img alt="Tree lino cut 1.jpg" height="401" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28649/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="267" /> . .</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><span>I made a few different versions of this using different colours and inks...</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><img alt="Tree in Blue and Ochre s.jpg" height="425" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28652/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="284" /> . .<img alt="Bark with Blue Sky Large.jpg" height="424" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28656/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="282" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><span>My favourite is bottom right, which I had framed. It printed with a kind of dendritic texture that suited the bark perfectly.</span></p></span>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-77756049335688298722019-04-01T09:59:00.019-07:002021-03-02T13:50:49.007-08:00Lino Cuts<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">I made a lino cut of a friend's favourite tree and tried a number of different printing styles with it.</span></span></div><span class="normal comment_text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey; color: white;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif;"><img alt="Vivs Tree s2 s.jpg" height="405" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28658/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="302" /> . <img alt="Vivs tree 2 blkyellow s.jpg" height="385" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28659/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="290" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif;"><img alt="Vivs Tree GreenBlk State 3 s.jpg" height="396" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28661/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="286" /> . .<img alt="Vivs tree 2 blkyellow on blue s.jpg" height="387" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28660/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="273" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Small lino cut - about A5 (4.5" x 6.5")</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif;"><img alt="Linocut Landscape black s.jpg" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28657/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" /></p></span><span face=""Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"></span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" />Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-63211814591225700212019-03-20T10:50:00.002-07:002021-03-02T13:49:45.498-08:00Lines and planes<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Thinking about abstracting images with a focus on lines and planes.<br /><span>[I later sold these all to the same collector.]</span><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">I've made three versions of a garden (image shared by Julia from Sarah Holliday's Blog Group). Always an interesting project to make multiples.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_8bObabvV3JIdHw1ajVlUUPxYks4DM0sKA8unl1ea70tdI9W8Ko8_Xa6hXyzAcnp7ilU4_WMZMyxdy0RyBpU1uFWIGokqbrkwZqeYTnnI8SvtBi-5_yPWV9lVVwaXfQiyJyWxGRXo3Ls/s1493/16Aug18+Lorna1+Julias+Garden+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1493" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_8bObabvV3JIdHw1ajVlUUPxYks4DM0sKA8unl1ea70tdI9W8Ko8_Xa6hXyzAcnp7ilU4_WMZMyxdy0RyBpU1uFWIGokqbrkwZqeYTnnI8SvtBi-5_yPWV9lVVwaXfQiyJyWxGRXo3Ls/w400-h289/16Aug18+Lorna1+Julias+Garden+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdyAhrGHOmoKdANwXo33DkCUb3HyyLIjFJWbbH_IN1wZniI4aUCQL5JZrLPlkaI_r-ZdzeZNETvAUCd-43M9qKaNON1hPHo1e7YzWZTiJp5iYJ1SfgiasVD_5Vp1-s02aMJapF6c1FUss/s1496/Feb2019+2+Julias+Garden+blue+-+revised.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1496" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdyAhrGHOmoKdANwXo33DkCUb3HyyLIjFJWbbH_IN1wZniI4aUCQL5JZrLPlkaI_r-ZdzeZNETvAUCd-43M9qKaNON1hPHo1e7YzWZTiJp5iYJ1SfgiasVD_5Vp1-s02aMJapF6c1FUss/w400-h289/Feb2019+2+Julias+Garden+blue+-+revised.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8HlkNF7LIupWbD5LBNEGIzoIFuxQRIYNU7ze9kxZhgnjxrKmYUaqpRl1Qr9p_x_mURtKLRQto_r7B2-m3HVhqraz2MknsTC-9aAFdiGHt_RQ2lw7bw5afuCE6jZ2LyhdxdtpAvDjWtV8/s1470/16Aug18+Lorna3+Julias+Garden+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1470" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8HlkNF7LIupWbD5LBNEGIzoIFuxQRIYNU7ze9kxZhgnjxrKmYUaqpRl1Qr9p_x_mURtKLRQto_r7B2-m3HVhqraz2MknsTC-9aAFdiGHt_RQ2lw7bw5afuCE6jZ2LyhdxdtpAvDjWtV8/w400-h294/16Aug18+Lorna3+Julias+Garden+3.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-47123995995136719952019-03-18T10:46:00.003-07:002021-03-02T13:48:02.786-08:00Plans<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #01ffff;">Plan for the next 50cm square canvas...</span></span></h3><p><span style="background-color: grey; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie72zga5xORgpj61-ci-zV_O8p6VJYerlXuWuMoehylFRHCJMjFgMiUk4QktevcFU_Bm_tm2ypo06RMPpzcNzidyWHJ0HW9nmzZTJ7rqw726H8sHRSZibgNSWftLbxlAG-kZ2ANslP6Ew/s2048/Rushall+Bench.jpg" style="background-color: grey; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1531" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie72zga5xORgpj61-ci-zV_O8p6VJYerlXuWuMoehylFRHCJMjFgMiUk4QktevcFU_Bm_tm2ypo06RMPpzcNzidyWHJ0HW9nmzZTJ7rqw726H8sHRSZibgNSWftLbxlAG-kZ2ANslP6Ew/w299-h400/Rushall+Bench.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><span style="background-color: grey;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">When I'm planning, I make some small, very simple line drawings, to check the format I have chosen, and to work out the 'flow' of the painting. I draw the shape of the canvas or paper, then add the flow lines, then the very basic shapes involved. At this point I can extend the drawing in some directions, if it looks as though it needs it.<br />When that looks OK, I make a similar plan, but this time for the tonal values. I try to stick to three tones - dark, mid, light/white.<br />After that, I might try out some colour combinations. I have been doing these in the sketchbook, but I decided to make some little painted squares today, so I can swap them around. </span></p><p>
</p><p><span style="background-color: grey; font-family: arial;"><img alt="Colour samples.JPG" height="242" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28589/384" width="260" />. <img alt="Swatch sets trial.JPG" height="240" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28590/384" width="307" /></span></p>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-59080735416479616062019-03-17T10:41:00.003-07:002021-03-02T13:46:51.987-08:00Fishy<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Today I procrastinated by painting a pebble to look like a fish.<strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /></strong><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><img alt="Rock Fish 1 Small.jpg" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28436/256" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> <img alt="Rock Fish 1a Small.jpg" height="126" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28438/256" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="243" /><br /></strong><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;">And more...<br /></span><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial;"><img alt="Rock fishies (Medium).jpg" border="0" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/28447/320" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Rock fishies (Medium).jpg" /></span><br /><span>Look better in real life as they are metallic paints. Still mucking about as you can see.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><span class="normal comment_text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; color: white; font-family: arial;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><br /></span></p></span>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-83336657143332709012019-03-17T10:26:00.002-07:002021-03-02T13:45:17.270-08:00Sketchbook<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Some sketchbook pages...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Open Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: grey; 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color: #01ffff; font-family: arial;">ACEOs, painted silk abstracts. </span></h3></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">As usual, I have assigned pretentious titles.</span></span></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">'3 is a Magic Number'.................'Baffle'.........................'In The Pink'</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">'Shifting Sands'.........................................'The Course of True Love'</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="09Jan2019 5xSilk ACEOs Medium.jpg" height="366" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27806/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="438" /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /></strong>'At The Source'.................................'Explosion'<strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /></strong></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">'Road Signs'</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">'Rock Fall'.......................................'Sharply Defined'</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="10Jan2019 5xSilk ACEOs Medium.jpg" height="447" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27807/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="361" /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /></strong>'Indoor/Outdoor'.................'Emerging'.................'String of Pink Pearls'<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" />'Catch a Falling Star'......................................'Hook, Line and Sinker'</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="10Jan20195xACEO Medium.jpg" height="407" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27808/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="436" /></span></p>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-58621564506985190012019-01-01T08:59:00.031-08:002021-03-02T13:41:36.563-08:00Les Petites Cigognes<p><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Had a brilliant holiday in a gite at Les Petites Cigognes. </span></p><div><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">The owners were kind enough to buy this facetted painting, to go with a more impressionistic one I painted a couple of years earlier.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ4nRYs2wnFXsapuQKLg5LVBFd_yPsOXoGbufF8xrlkbNEskD-JcFdP6DWEdyaGQxXx67biwzZu0_lS0HvrXEvc9RH1lyDewuAcVDCG61taixmJdjTLBSFj8_TW4QK2np_muklN5UpUpA/s1482/03Jan19+Lorna+3+Les+Petites+Cigognes+2.jpg"><span style="background-color: grey; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-48443548054004312372018-11-16T06:50:00.019-08:002021-03-02T13:40:29.488-08:00Mugging my artwork<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">I spent a while perfecting (!) my book of artworks, and then I found the printing company Printerpix also print mugs, so I had a happy time trying out mug designs on their preview program. What do you think?</span></span></h3><span class="normal comment_text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; color: white; font-family: arial;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><img alt="screenshotdesign.printerpix.co.uk2018.11.16183846.jpg" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27431/256" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" /> . <img alt="screenshotdesign.printerpix.co.uk2018.11.16184005.jpg" height="172" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27432/256" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="201" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><img alt="screenshotdesign.printerpix.co.uk2018.11.16184126.jpg" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27433/256" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" /> . <img alt="screenshotdesign.printerpix.co.uk2018.11.16184147.jpg" height="167" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27434/256" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="208" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><img alt="screenshotdesign.printerpix.co.uk2018.11.16184348.jpg" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27435/256" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" /> . <img alt="screenshotdesign.printerpix.co.uk2018.11.16184407.jpg" height="165" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27436/256" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="229" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span face=""Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color: grey;">I did order some mugs which arrived this morning, and they look remarkably like the mock-ups I showed earlier, so I'm really pleased. I still have some available so contact me if you'd like one - £10 plus p&p.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /><img alt="IMG_3373.JPG" height="178" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27503/256" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="356" /></p></span>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-84485723572779705122018-11-11T12:30:00.005-08:002021-03-02T13:38:04.941-08:00 Entrophic Graphomania<p><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">The idea is to take a plain white piece of paper and make a dot wherever there is some small fault or mark in the paper. These days, paper is so pure it's hard to find any blemishes, so I tried another method, which is to use printed paper. I selected the letter E in each block of text (I could have chosen a word or a punctuation mark, or vowels and so on). Having made dots, the next step is to join them together in any way you like. This is my first go at it...</span></p><span class="normal comment_text" face=""Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="Entropic Graphomania 1 2.jpg" height="225" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/26792/800" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="606" /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color: grey; color: white;">It would be an option to make the dots on tracing paper and create a drawing without the actual underlying entropy, but I thought it would be more interesting to do the first one 'showing the workings' as it were.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Last night I went to a meeting of my Creative Exchange group. I try to provide some sort of activity or game to spark off our creative discussions so I thought we'd do some "Entropic Graphomania". <br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" />Take a block of text and mark some chosen attribute. Then you link the marks together with some free-form lines in whatever way you like. Can be coloured in too. I made two, using tracing paper to make the marks from the text, so you don't see the actual text.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">In the first one, I selected the words "was" (blue marks) and "is" (pink marks). It all turned a bit 1920s Vogue!<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" />The second one was marked on the letter 'a'. I circled and looped the marks and it looked like frogspawn, so when it was all joined up, I coloured it as a frog (a frog-like creature anyway).</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-size: 12px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial;"><img alt="9Nov18 Lorna1.jpg" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27388/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span> . <img alt="9Nov18Lorna2.jpg" height="223" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27389/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="258" /></strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><br /></p></span>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-2431583259598562132018-11-11T06:53:00.012-08:002021-03-02T13:36:36.159-08:00Rock On!<p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">I've been rock painting for Reading Kindness Rocks. </span><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">These will most probably be auctioned for charity.</span></span></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"></p><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-jgyh3471" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span class="normal comment_text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; color: white; font-family: arial;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: grey;">I bought a pack of 30 largish flat pebbles to paint. I've done three of the flat ones and a couple of chunkier rocks that I got from the Reading Kindness Rocks group...</span></p></span></div><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif;"><a href="https://pmp-art.com/lorna-webber/gallery/265879/feather-rock-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; cursor: pointer; outline: none;"><img alt="gallery image" src="https://pmp-art.com/gallery/image/gallery_image/265879/medium/_v=779641543520088" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="https://pmp-art.com/lorna-webber/gallery/265803/rock-feather-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="gallery image" src="https://pmp-art.com/gallery/image/gallery_image/265803/medium/_v=779641543445138" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /></span></span><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /></span></span><a href="https://pmp-art.com/lorna-webber/gallery/265880/tiny-robin-rock" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="gallery image" src="https://pmp-art.com/gallery/image/gallery_image/265880/medium/_v=779641543520088" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="urlscan_block" id="url-scan-jgyh3471" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span class="normal comment_text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; color: white; font-family: arial;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><img alt="Rock Sleigh 1 front back Medium.jpg" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27617/256" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" /> . <img alt="Rock Sleigh 2 front back Medium.jpg" height="323" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27618/256" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="219" /> , <img alt="Rock Santa 1 front back (Medium).jpg" border="0" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27619/320" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Rock Santa 1 front back (Medium).jpg" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><img alt="MVI_3405_Moment 2.jpg" height="266" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27620/320" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="265" /> . <img alt="MVI_3405_Moment3.jpg" height="268" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/27621/320" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="264" /> . </p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K-pnCGeAy-I" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" width="400"></iframe></p></span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /></div>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-17265828341217926182018-11-02T07:00:00.007-07:002021-03-02T13:31:28.973-08:00Inktober 2018<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Inktober 2018</span></span></h3><p><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Oh wow, what a marathon!<br />31 drawings from Jake Parker's Inktober prompt words.<br />See the full set of 31 drawings in my Facebook Album here:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=LornaWebberVipond&set=a.1190709887734631">https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=LornaWebberVipond&set=a.1190709887734631</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjExISfsb8zxotl6dlf0OpyqOTNd3aph0AtEVSmbABrNFkMh-G1n1Ml2MUkXpxvRyrkASHNIPzoD2e9hyphenhyphenq7zhXPjEVrMRunjOeKIURlyuHW75uE0HhAKwW-WbMGaJR2y4DAckAq4sp4r7I/s2048/Inktober+10+-+Flowing.jpg" style="background-color: grey; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1458" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjExISfsb8zxotl6dlf0OpyqOTNd3aph0AtEVSmbABrNFkMh-G1n1Ml2MUkXpxvRyrkASHNIPzoD2e9hyphenhyphenq7zhXPjEVrMRunjOeKIURlyuHW75uE0HhAKwW-WbMGaJR2y4DAckAq4sp4r7I/w456-h640/Inktober+10+-+Flowing.jpg" width="456" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: grey;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-8406392669816997762018-10-02T07:30:00.003-07:002021-03-02T13:31:50.371-08:00Still Life Notes<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Still Life...<br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Notes for a workshop for the Kennet Valley Art Group:</span></p></h3><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%;">With still
life, you are in total control of your subject matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your subject doesn’t move about while you’re
trying to paint it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually, you can
control the lighting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can spend as
long as you like choosing and arranging your subject matter until you find an
interesting and satisfying composition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%;">You can
make a statement with a still life – about certain visual qualities, about the
transience of things, the relationships between things, the meaning of specific
objects… whatever appeals to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%;">Look at
Morandi, Cezanne, Picasso, Chardin, Dutch masters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%;"><b>Composing your subject</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%;">A few simple guidelines…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Choose objects that are related in some way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have a ‘theme’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Consider the background right from the start.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Make some very quick thumbnail sketches to work out
your composition, in terms of <br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> shapes</b>
and major <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">tonal areas</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Try to get a flow through the painting, to draw the
viewer’s eye around the picture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Avoid clashing edges, where things touch but don’t
overlap.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Don’t leave vast amounts of space around your subject.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Aim for balance but not symmetry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%;"><o:p style="background-color: grey;"> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%;"><b style="background-color: grey;">Negative space</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%;">Negative
space is any area in your painting that is NOT a specific object.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It consists of the shapes around and between
things.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%;">Since
watercolour is a transparent medium, you can’t paint light on top of dark, or a
colour on top of its complement – the underlying wash will show through. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%;">You <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">can</i> paint dark on light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s fine where the object is darker than
what surrounds it, but what if the object is lighter?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, then you paint the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">negative</b> area behind or between your objects. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%;">This is
tremendously useful in watercolour, as it enables you to paint a broad, loose wash,
and then a darker wash to ‘cut out’ the object.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Much better than painting each shape separately like painting by
numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does take a bit of thought!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%;">EDGES –
think about the type of edge you want; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">soft</b>
blend into another shape (wet on wet), or <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">hard</b>
edge giving definition (wet on dry).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
in doubt, fade it out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><p></p>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-48923472820042141252018-10-02T05:56:00.004-07:002021-03-02T13:32:38.023-08:00Back to the Palette Knife<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Palette knife painting: photo, blind contour drawing, plans and under-painting, made in a friend's garden, mid September. What a lovely day!</span></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><img alt="20180904_145949 Large.jpg" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/26897/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" /> . <img alt="IMG_3269.JPG" height="256" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/26899/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="192" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><img alt="27Sep18 Lorna 6a Plans.jpg" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/26895/512" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="20180904_150038 Large.jpg" height="422" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/26898/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="238" /> . .<img alt="27Sep18 Lorna 6b Teresas Garden WIP.jpg" height="310" src="https://pmp-art.com/upimg/image/upimg_file/26896/384" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="233" /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhCyWav9eyhwla5GKsT30sG-op-2dMAtuWaQKPjea_b6tW6pDqwgS2YBuyWhsxM3HHk2Ap0pVq7C5_AoyyK_mu3II4JyKGO4f-AWGy5FV2Y_3cQ_QYCCEahZnfM1xJVIoK0lBhES3tZOU/s1036/Teresas+Garden+final+%2528Medium%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhCyWav9eyhwla5GKsT30sG-op-2dMAtuWaQKPjea_b6tW6pDqwgS2YBuyWhsxM3HHk2Ap0pVq7C5_AoyyK_mu3II4JyKGO4f-AWGy5FV2Y_3cQ_QYCCEahZnfM1xJVIoK0lBhES3tZOU/w298-h400/Teresas+Garden+final+%2528Medium%2529.jpg" width="298" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Teresa's Garden </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></p>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913243887495412909.post-37588218981717783062018-10-02T05:49:00.003-07:002021-03-02T13:35:03.583-08:00Colour/Tone/Intensity<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: grey;"> <span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Notes on the use of Colour/Tone/Intensity</span></span></h3><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">You have to consider tonal values. These are used to define form and depth and, in monochrome work, can indicate colour.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">You have to consider colour. This divides into choices of hue and intensity.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">You can use tone or colour or a combination of both, depending on the effect you want, but either colour <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"> or</strong> tone should dominate - i.e. don't have a lot of colour <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"> and</em> a lot of tonal variation.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">If the artwork is mainly tonal, the colour should be secondary. Make sure you organise good, big areas of similar tones. This will make your art look good from a distance and give it strength. Think Rembrandt, Picasso. Don't have little darks and lights dotted about. Choose your hues to suit the required tone...for example, you can't paint a low key painting with yellows which have a naturally high key.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">If the artwork is mainly about colour, have most of your colours in the same tonal range. See <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://colorwithlara.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/itten-projects.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1538566475464000&usg=AFQjCNGDU4s3iqXLYNdKuQzGFY9yaCFEIQ" href="https://colorwithlara.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/itten-projects.pdf" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> Ittens's colour/tone grid</a> . Think Van Gogh, Bonnard. </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">When using mainly colour, you won't be able to get much depth in your painting. You can still represent the direction of light by using colour intensity. Intense (pure saturated colours) will appear to glow with light. Dull, muddy colours will sink into shade, even if they are quite light tonally.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">Each hue has a natural tone at which it is most intense. For example, yellow is most intense (pure, brilliant) in light tones. As you make yellow darker, it becomes duller. Blue is most intense in the mid range, less so in high tones (white added) or low tones (black added). Red is naturally dark. This is really clear in the Ittens grid.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: grey; color: white; font-family: arial;">To make all the areas of a painting sit comfortably together, you have to lay down neighbouring colours and tones that match. That way, they can all talk to each other, without one element shouting everything else down. Try for harmony but with some contrast.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO9FTv0bXYBSlJKFUh6HJViIDBhsMO4Zyzs6cDG7ru_SQ6CemC-i9dCkL6XlHsQq16zvVesC3AIzSwXCd5R0CItg3h9UTWOoRDuzFakYnVu_FBmLAomGxSlJZh59fYyjZrCRwOwKslIDI/s2048/Itten+Colour+Grid.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1866" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO9FTv0bXYBSlJKFUh6HJViIDBhsMO4Zyzs6cDG7ru_SQ6CemC-i9dCkL6XlHsQq16zvVesC3AIzSwXCd5R0CItg3h9UTWOoRDuzFakYnVu_FBmLAomGxSlJZh59fYyjZrCRwOwKslIDI/s320/Itten+Colour+Grid.jpg" /></span></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; color: blue;"><br /></span><p></p>Lorna Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721382892965585614noreply@blogger.com0