Work in progress…. in doors, sky time

Lessons learnt from a recent water inspired painting, applied to the sky of this one. More layers of light blues and then white and then the sun and finally the green of the leaves to come….

Inwards or outwards swirls

This was a very large like 1m x 1.5m canvas all done with dab and flick technique.

Loved the slow build up of layers and working round the meeting points to mix it up

Some colours just have such amazing contrasts

I felt like a centre piece was required, but I was never totally happy with how this turned out.

The idea

Inspiration being drawn in, to creativity flowing out.

Monday night blues

Blues and lines

There was no idea, plan or forethought with this one, the paint just flowed on to the canvas and the lines started to form themselves.

I’m not sure it’s finished yet… it could go on for a while..

Murray boys spider 🕷 man

String it up!

I’ve been using string to hold the cardboard templates in place on other paintings, so when it came to doing Spider-Man the idea of the webs was already there.

Having completed this I was torn between leaving the string on or removing it leaving the lines.

In the end Judah wanted the string to stay, which I think is the right decision. Happy with this one.

Judah’s Iron man / Christmas triangles

The brief from the 5 year old nephew for this one was:

• Red
• Yellow
• Green
• Triangles

On a sunny April morning i took the easel outside into the garden and sponge dabbed the back ground, being such warm day it was quickly drying and and the layers of red soon built up to a pattern i was happy with. 

Following the cutting shapes out of cardboard technique thats worked so far, i dabbed the edges with the green to create the random selection of triangles and filled triangles with a darker yellow shade, then comes the best bit. The flicking!

After muiltiple layers artistic flicks and attempts at giving myself tennis elbow working through shades of yellow, ornge, red and green we had a finished product. 

To me it looks like Christmas.

For my newphew its IRONMAN!! resulting in subsequent commissions for more Marvel-esk painting. 

Black Sheep Projects

Finding this blog again has shown me that time can pass but 7 years on… I’m still trying to get my shit together…..

So now black sheep 🐑 projects will be the forum for blogging creative projects, art work, inspirations, ideas

This is the creative band of my three bands of mental health. The others are work and exercise. Exercise I’m blogging about at hammerdowndiaries.com

I’ll post about the 3 pillars/bands that I structure my life around to keep me balanced and out of the depression hole 🕳 at some point.

Firstly inspiration…

I love the branches on these oak trees like fingers growing out and up