Post YOUR artwork here, cmon !!

[palexxxx]

I bet the income derived covers more than the cost of paint, brushes and turps. Maybe you are even able to scratch a few pence together for a pint.

[charleyboy]

I'd give you a green for the Turner, Nige...The fookers wont let me!

[Neverna]

I like that, Nigel. Very nice.

[nigelandjan]

Thankyou all very kindly for your appreciation shown ,, as I said before this is only a copy I have made which TBH is not very difficult to do , infact I am sure there are several folk on here who could turn up an equally lovely copy .

If anyone else reading this would like to have a go at this painting PLEASE feel free to have a go and stick it up on here in any medium , it does not have to be oil .

I,m so looking forward now to going to see the film Mr Turner

[nigelandjan]

Thankyou all kindly for interest shown and the nice comments and repo sent .

I know I have mentioned this before but it seems even more appropriate now as I seem to be the only one posting in here now .


I just hope people don't form the opinion of me that this is a look at ME thread , because it was never meant to be that way.

I would dearly love to see any other,s art work in here alongside mine but to say its a bit thin on the ground would be an understatement .

So I will keep posting my old stuff up as I go along , and believe me I really love to read any of your comments good , bad or indifferent ,, I,m only looking through this set of eye,s and very often get it wrong , so your comments can give me a very different angle on things .

Thanks to all for visiting

[English Noodles]

Very nice, Nige. You really are quite a talent.

[nigelandjan]

Thankyou kindly EN ^ good to see some long term senior members taking a look in here

[blue]

Mr Turner (2014)
by Mike Leigh with timothy spall
film finaly made it to the torrent sites,
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I had a very quick look at it, but its probably not my cup of tea - a bit too slow; though some lovely cinematic shots poped out here and there in a fast forward scan, ,

[nigelandjan]

A little watercolour I did today of some barges at a place called Pin Mill in Suffolk

[nigelandjan]

Deliver down this little road most days to a new wind farm ,, quick little acrylic of where I pass most days now

[nigelandjan]

A little winter warmer today a quick gouache , no where in particular , today I am going to do a small landscape in oils just to ring the changes

[nigelandjan]

Happy NY to one and all

I,ve been out this morning to the rather beautiful Dedham Vale near to us where the rivers are very high ,, this is Constable Country ! and even though its freezing I,m sure he is looking over my shoulder at the young pretender in his territory .

Anyway still very wet this is oil my very first of 2015








BTW ,, its tiny ,,,,,,,, the painting aint much bigger either

[somtamslap]

A little slice (courtesy of Nigel) of Isaan in my living room.

I think the prose of Somerset Maugham is a fitting caption to the beauty of this piece:

"And now the plain spread out with noble spaciousness. The rice fields were no longer little patches laboriously wrested from the jungle, but broad acres. The days followed one another with a monotony in which there was withal something impressive. In the life of cities we are conscious but of fragments of days; they have no meaning on their own, but are merely parts of time in which we conduct such and such affairs; we begin them when they are already well on their way and continue them without regard to their natural end. But here they had completeness and one watched them unroll themselves with stately majesty from dawn to dusk; each day was like a flower, a rose that buds and blooms and, without regret but accepting the course of nature, dies. And this vast sun-drenched plain was a fit scene for the pageant of that ever-recurring drama."

[nigelandjan]

Yahaay ! Thats travelled well mate ,, nice to see the frame has quadrupled the value of it

[somtamslap]

She's a bewt mate.

My ideal dwellings. Slap bang in the middle of a bastard paddy.

[nigelandjan]

A cooler version of my Dedham vale painting , still using the left over paint on the pallete BTW not cooler as in any better but cooler in temp

[Loy Toy]

Nigel being an artist covering any discipline is extremely difficult mainly because of the artists that created their work before you.

I am not an expert in the judgement of artistic offerings but what you create is certainly very pleasing to the eye and as far as I am concerned very commercially viable.

Keep up the good work, you are a jewel to this forum and I wish you and Jan a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2015.

[Dillinger]

Charley wished you well also Nige, mentioned he'd hope you'd hurry up and get famous, while stroking a couple of your masterpieces.

Great guy is Charley

[nigelandjan]

Thankyou very kindly LT for those words of encouragement ,, its always pleasing when someone takes trouble to give a mention on here , good or otherwise its nice to know someone,s enjoying it .

A HNY to you and your family to mate

Yes Dill old Charley is a good ol boy for sure ( even though he is a northerner )

Well its too poxy cold here now to be out painting we now have freezing fog , so i look forward to Feburary when I am armed with my brushes in sunnier climbs

[nigelandjan]

Fuchias watercolour on crap paper

[blue]

Nice little study.
Where you off to on holiday Nigel, will you be doing some painting there?

[nigelandjan]

Cheers mate ,, not really my thing painting flowers ,, took me all of 30 mins as you can see

Were of to the land of fake smiles mate . and

Yes I shall be painting as I go along .

I am off on my own most of the time ,, as the wife has designed herself and is overseeing the build of her perfect outdoor Thai kitchen ( apparently )

I,m not sure what paints to use ,, might well be water soluble oils

I hope to hook up with me old mate EG and take him out with me for the day ,, we had some great times out together before

[Roobarb]

Nigel - somewhere in the early stages of this thread you mentioned that you hoped this would inspire people to try painting, and its always sort of stuck in my mind as something I'd like to do.

About two months ago I moved out the Middle East and was casting around looking for some form of hobby to do at weekends when I came across a set of watercolour paints in the local supermarket. Aha thought I, Nigel said have a go, there's no one looking, so why not give it a try.

I write this therefore to both thank you for introducing me to something that I've found I greatly enjoy, and also to let you know that in providing the inspiration for me to have a crack at it you are partly to blame for the dive in quality that this thread is about to take...

[Roobarb]

As it turns out I've had rather less time on my hands than I'd expected, so have not really had much of a chance to do much, but I'll post what I've done so far together with what I've learned as I've gone along.

Having got the paints back to my hotel room together with two or three brushes and a pad of watercolour paper (it's amazing what you can find in Carrefour out here) it dawned on me that I hadn't got a clue what you actually do with watercolour paint. The title seems to infer that water is involved but as to how it is applied to the paper it was something of a mystery.

Happily You Tube has a wealth of information on it and so after half an hour or so it was time to have a crack at it.

My first attempt at painting something:



The hotel bedroom lacked anything interesting so I thought I'd have a go at doing a painting of a photo I had of our Thai home (some may recognise it from the building thread, although then again perhaps it's not that recognisable). In retrospect it was perhaps a little ambitious for a first attempt...

One of the things I did discover was that watercolour paper expands and becomes bumpy when it gets wet. A quick look at the internet told me that you are meant to stretch it out a bit when it does this with tape or bulldog clips and a board. I didn't have any of this to hand and by the time I realised I needed it I also realised that this was never going to be a fine work of art, so I finished it off by trying to spread out the little watery lakes that had appeared all over the place.

Sorting out the corrugating paper and also trying to use less water and paint was to be the goal of the next picture.

A bad workman always blames his tools, and clearly the reason that the first picture had not worked out terribly well was the quality of the paper I was using rather than any inability on my part, so I found a shop with a different brand of paper and had a go using that.

There was also a You Tube video showing how to use watercolour pencils, so I reckoned that was the way to go to get some detail in.

Attempt 2:



This time the paper, which was a bit thicker, stayed fairly flat and I managed to avoid getting too much paint on the page. On saying that it was still a pretty awful daub, the watercolour pencil bits didn't really work like the fellow on You Tube had shown, and truth be told by now I'd got bored of trying to paint a picture of the house.

[Roobarb]

I realised a few things at this stage.

1. I was trying to be too ambitious in what I was painting and could see that the results were going to be pretty crap long before I'd finished the picture. This meant I was losing interest long before the picture was done which in turn was making the end result even worse.

2. A bit of strategic thinking - If I assume that most outdoors pictures will have about a third of the picture given over to sky, then if I can learn to paint some clouds and stuff then that will take care of a third of all pictures I would paint. So it was back to You Tube and have a look at how to paint a sky.

Attempt 3:



Hmmm, that didn't really work out at all. Not worth continuing with it.

They make it look so easy in You Tube.

Time for another go:



Possibly a little better? The main purpose of this picture was to attempt to paint clouds. The water, land and houses are all in rather odd Martian hues as I was using up left over paint. It was more about learning how to spread the paint about on the paper than to do with getting colours right.

I was getting a bit more confident, but needed to work on the colours a bit, so the next imaginary scene produced this:

Attempt 5:



OK, so the clouds give the distinct impression that there's a leaky mustard gas factory sitting somewhere behind one of the headlands, and there's still too much crude colour in the whole picture, but the definition between the colours is a bit sharper and I felt progress of sorts was slowly being made.