Big Picture...Little Picture

Continuing to work from my photographs taken recently at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, whilst the Red Valerian was in flower, this time I worked on a canvas which allowed me to apply more texture to the foreground.
For fun I worked on a minature version at the same time on a small canvas I was given with it's own easel!

Red Valerian, Aldeburgh Beach 3

Acrylic on Canvas

24cm x 30cm

5cm x 7cm

Exhibition

What's in a name?

I chose the, not very artistic, name 'Gingermum' for my blog before I decided I would use it to record my efforts as an artist (see Jan/Feb 2009 for how it came to be!)

...I wonder should I change it for something more 'sensible'...or 'artistic'...?

Beccles Society of Artists Annual Exhibition

Public Hall, Beccles, Suffolk

Saturday 31st July ~ Saturday 7th August 2010

I will be entering these 4 paintings...

Red Valerian, Aldeburgh Beach

Red Valerian, Aldeburgh Beach 1

Acrylic on Watercolour Paper

25cm x 36cm

Red Valerian, Aldeburgh Beach 2

Acrylic on Watercolour Paper

25cm x 26cm

'Boy Fishing' & 'Girl Fishing'

I have been really happy with my recent work but wanted to try to keep the finished work a little less real this time as there's something about the underpainting that I find quite appealing but that has been getting totally lost by the end.  I worked on these two pictures at the same time and find it interesting that somehow one turned out more realistic than the other.

I like both in their own ways but 'Boy Fishing' is more what I set out to achieve.

'Boy Fishing'

Acrylic on Watercolour paper'

25cm x 16 cm

'Girl Fishing'

Acrylic on Watercolour paper

25cm x 16cm