my attempt to stop procrastinating and start drawing!
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Speeding up
I decided I'm going to do some small oil paintings and try and speed up. As you can see I am not used to oils. This took me 2 hours and it's nowhere near finished. Hopefully things will eventually improve if I practice enough!
My name is Angie Wood and I live on a narrowboat on the beautiful Oxford canal.
A long time ago in the eighties I studied Art and Design at Goldsmiths College and went on to be a paste up artist and then a graphic designer. I’ve never stopped painting and drawing though – I painted pet and animal portraits for a while and over the past two years have begun creating small oil paintings of vintage objects, textiles and flowers. I collect items from fleamarkets to paint and my little narrowboat is getting fuller all the time! I’m particularly delighted by colourful patterns on textiles and ceramics and I also love painting reflective surfaces. I’m usually attracted to items from the early part of the twentieth century, which bring back memories of my great aunts’ and grandmother’s cosy houses. My artistic aim is to pay homage to the things I paint by observing them as closely as I can, and to create something beautiful that will hopefully make people as happy as I was when I was making it!
4 comments:
good to see you (oil) paint annie
use a toned underground,it will spped things up for you and ofcourse do lots,lots of little once
Brave of you to start oils, and it is so lovely, Annie.
annie #3
Thanks Rob, I will do that, and any further advice is very gratefully welcomed! Annie, it is lovely of you to say so.
Annie - great start! One tip for painting fast - BIG brush and a small canvas! :-)
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