Here’s a paining I began as a demo piece for one of my online art classes, which I ran during the 2020-21 lockdowns. The theme I wanted my students to tackle on this occasion was ‘music’, challenging them to come up with a piece of artwork that reflected their relationship to music. My demo painting…
Category: Acrylics
Bluey
I’ve been making a few paintings in the last year or so depicting some of my boys’ most treasured toys. This is the latest one, which I completed this week. It depicts a six and a bit centimetre Bluey toy, from the Australian animated childrens (and adults really) programme of the same name. I don’t…
Leaves Under a Swing
I was pushing my youngest son on a ‘birds nest’ swing in the local playground one sunny autumn morning in 2022 when I distractedly noticed the fallen leaves lying beneath the swing. The strength of the colour I saw, and in particular the contrast between the autumnal colours in the leaves and the rich, sunlit…
They fell from trees!
Pictured is a demo painting made today for an upcoming art class. A still life painting in acrylics on A4 mixed media paper, it depicts an acorn, an empty cupule, and a conker. The class challenge will be to produce a similar still life painting including anything that has fallen from a tree. As we…
My Lockdown Walk
The subject for one of my most recent online art classes was inspired by instructions to stay local during Lockdowns I-III, and the regular walks that many of us consequently developed. I thought it might be a nice idea if my students and I each put together a pictorial representation of our respective ‘lockdown walk’….
Drawing Upon Life 