Trying to paint the wind again (3)

This week I have been working on trying to work on the 52 cm sq boards , increasing the size of the , ' Trying to paint the wind , ' paintings. It has required effort to let the marks I make stay showing on the paintings surface....my natural tendency is to blend, blend and blend some more.

My research has also been quite hard....hard to find paintings that I felt captured the wind ...but these are the ones closest to it....

Louise Balaam
SP Goodman
Russell Frampton
Hannah Woodman
Janine Baldwin
Nicholas Herbert
Patricia Sadler
Lewis Noble

These were the paintings, worked back into quite a few times.....

It is so interesting to see how the paintings translate onto the internet. Some look so much better on the internet, some the opposite. This one I really liked ....but maybe it feels more like a warm mist than a wind.

I was trying to make lines...I made them with acrylic paint in an applicator, a little like icing a cake. What else could I use? Paint on a brush, chalk pastel, oil pastel, water soluable crayon ( I have some somewhere, Nicholas Herbert uses them but they didn't work for me )

The long diagonal black line came out of the applicator on it's own but I left it . Interesting. My lines are a little tentative...I don't know what they represent yet....but they add to the feeling of movement or wind.

The walk today was windy but our trees here are old and established....they didn't move, only the absolute outside leaves kind of shivered and rustled. I couldn't see the wind today ! I could only feel it....and it still feels a warm wind !

Trying to paint the wind again (2)

Love the small pieces but with the acrylics sometimes when they dry , they die and I am disappointed the day after when I look at them. Often the ones I liked yesterday, I don't like today. I can't wait to get in the workspace in the morning but then often the chase begins again !

These are another layer to the yesterday ones.....still trying to paint the wind !

A gentle wind, acrylic, 15 cm sq.

Layers of wind, acrylic, 15 cm sq.

A cream wind, acrylic, 15 cm sq.

Anyway the wind blows, 15 cm sq. Acrylic

Misty wind, acrylic, 15 cm sq.

The warm breeze, acrylic, 15 cm sq.

White wind, acrylic, 15 cm sq.

Thinking about what colour the wind is ? When I googled it....it brought up a Country and Western song.

Trying to paint the wind again

Trying small ones for enjoyment. They are kind of like my sketchbook...anything goes...but I love doing them....these are this weeks. Slowly got into it....and then was tRyingt no paint the wind. Love it. Research the poetry.....but of course the wind is nowhere about....the landscape is still !

This one ( above ) a favourite

Trying to paint the wind.

Forgot I was trying to paint the wind !

Title, ' the way through,' back tot he woods again..love em..to be framed like this one...love them too !

Silson Contemporary

Two photographs from last nights ( 12 th May 2017 ) preview at Silson Contemporary, Harrogate. The event was, ' Spring into Summer. ' Beautiful exhibition and good to meet Facebook friends Lesley Birch, Gary Crowder, Julia Poulton and Ali Thompson. Lots more artists there who I didn't get to meet.

These are some of my paintings on display . It was interesting that all the walls were white and at home none of my walls are, so , the paintings looked completely different.....not better or worse, just different .

The grey ones are 33 inches square and the four on the chimney breast are 52 cm sq. The small ones are 15 cm sq.

Will be painting tomorrow.

Spring greens (5)

This week I have continued with the Spring greens. This was the 52 cm sq. piece. I like the pink in it.

Try some more with the rose pink in. Not a colour I would have used. The following four were me trying to put some , ' My North, ' images on canvas, rather than paper. I love working on paper but haven't really liked any of the framed ones. Not too keen on the works behind glass. Hence why I am trying on canvas. They are small, 15 cm square canvases, the same size as the ones on paper....I have built up impasto and texture with layers of paint. I enjoyed that. We will see if I continue with them. 

This is the revised wall, with the pink one included. The pink is beginning to lift the display ( I had thought it too serious ) Try done more lighter colours this week , see if I can push this display somewhere away from , ' serious. '