Wharf walk

Here are the most recent paintings I've done, worked up from the large series of five pencil drawings of the waterfront walk.

They're whiter than this in reality - though still dirty and fairly loose. The nuances of Photoshop to fine tune photos gives me such grief, so I give up... you'll have to make that leap yourselves! I'm enjoying the flatness of Flashe paint (vinyl based and with a gouache feel, as opposed to acrylic paint which is polymer based) and contrasting it with acrylics to play with matte versus sheen in parts of the work.

It's so hot the paint's drying almost before I can get it on the canvas (I love it!).

Our show

Great news.
We've secured a spot at Thistle Hall to have our show - and the dates are the 20th to the 26th of March. (Opening's monday night at 6.00).
It's going to be GREAT, and I hope that everyone following this blog can make it along (if not in reality then in spirit!).

It's good for us to be organising this at last, to have the discipline of a deadline to work to - finishing things, framing and planning how we'll display the works and tell the story... making publicity materials and press releases (awful writing format - truly awful!).

It's a short show but the space is a nice one - so I'm pretty excited (and a bit nervous I guess).

Here's an image from the publicity we're putting out. It's a combination of our joint piece and some of the sections of the long waterfront drawing I made a while back.

Last week I began two paintings from the drawing too - so far not finished. If they turn out as I hope I'll add them to the collection and post them here too.