Post YOUR artwork here, cmon !!

[nigelandjan]

I have mate , but I am having a bit of trouble with my memory cards at the mo ,, all in good time mate

[nigelandjan]

Anyway on the subject of " Next " it would be nice to see some others post some more on here please .

I have no idea what happened to Roobarb ??

He came forth with a magnificent flurry of his artwork I PM,d him for a meet up when I was over last month and have not seen a blink out of him since ??

Hope he,s ok anyway

[Luigi]

Was in B2S today and passed by the canvas area.

175b for a 40x50cm mounted canvas, less than 300b for some oil paints. So got home and got me fingers messy.



Stuck it up in the corner of the Buddha room, which will do until I take it down and shove into a store room and find it again in 30 yrs time.

[nigelandjan]

Something different for sure

Does the wife approve ?

[Luigi]

Affirmative.

[nigelandjan]

Well thats good to keep the lady happy , just doing a small acrylic to dedicate to my Mum today

[nigelandjan]

Here we go

Happy Mothers Day Mum

I know you loved me taking you to places like this on our many days out.

I will call this one ( bit cheesy I know ) Morning light ,, acrylics



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[somtamslap]

^Cracker!

[bsnub]

I like it!

[nigelandjan]

Arles France ,, acrylic on triple primed MDF






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[nigelandjan]

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[nigelandjan]

Good Friday offering in gouache



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[Dapper]

What can I say?

Tony Harts Gallery - Luigi, age 12

[Dapper]

^^

What can I say?

TD has a resident artist proppa.

[nigelandjan]

Onwards with the acrylics



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[blue]

Good that is, nice colour balance with those vibrant greens and reds etc
you even managed to resist your usual urge to put the horizon 100% slap bang in the middle ..
now it just needs a few hosses or cows in the foreground .

[Roobarb]

Well, its time to litter this thread with a few more of my attempts at art.

Up until a week ago I was still living in a hotel in Dubai so somewhat limited to using watercolour as I'm fairly sure the hotel management would have taken a dim view to oil paint getting in their carpet, and apparently gouache can be a bit niffy so is probably better used in a room where the windows can be opened.

Anyway, first up was another scene from Jordan - Wadi Rum. All my photos were pretty useless so found something on Google images to have a crack at.



I can't get the hang of people and animals. I started painting the camels from the left. By the time I'd reached the right hand one I reckoned I could have a go at painting one without first drawing it in pencil, which is why the right hand one looks more like a constipated Great Dane with a sack of coal on its back than a camel. This is what it all should have looked like:



Anyway, having just moved into a new place with empty walls I framed it which adds an air of professionalism that the picture doesn't deserve, and then hung it in a poorly lit area which means it won't face much scrutiny:

[Roobarb]

The next project was clearly to try to learn a bit about drawing people.

I'd read somewhere that you should start small, mastering an eye or a nose or something, and then build from that. Much of my random office doodles began to involve rather eerily disembodied eyes staring out at people, or odd noses and things scattered about. This sort of thing:



Eventually the time came to tackle a face - the question was whose?

The missus and kids were not an option as I would see when I was going wrong and would get annoyed by my inability to correct it, so I asked one of the prettier girls at work if she would mind my having a crack at painting a picture of her (from a photo) which she graciously agreed to.

First attempt:



The thing is that it didn't really look like her, so I had another crack at it:



It was a better likeness, but I felt that I'd probably leave the portraits until I could use something other than watercolour as it's a bit of a pain when you get it wrong.

[Roobarb]

When I was in my early twenties I read a book called 'The Last Grain Race' by Eric Newby. To cut a long story short, as steamships became more efficient so sail became less and less attractive until eventually, by the 1930s, one of the few cargo routes that it was still more cost effective to use sail than steam powered ships was bringing the annual Australian grain harvest to Europe. The book is an account of the author's experiences sailing on board Moshulu in the 1938 voyage. It's a good read if you're into that sort of thing.

I digress somewhat. Whilst in reality I wouldn't change my comfy office chair for a life perched on an upper yardarm, there is a small part of me that hankers after the adventure, and Eric Newby's tale has for me become the sort of embodiment of an escape to a more adventurous life.

I'm not sure if the picture below was in the book but it did seem quite familiar and sort of sums it up:



So, this photo became the next project, which ended up like this:



Overall I was happy with it, although I missed out a lot of the detail such as rigging and stuff on the decks. The people are also a bit odd. It now hangs on the wall in my living room and the main reason I like it is not because of artistic merit, but because it's a little part of who I am - or perhaps wish I had been?

[Roobarb]

Some of you may remember that we built a place in Thailand a year or so back - actually I think I mentioned that earlier in this thread. Anyway, Mrs Roobarb and the kids have been living there over the last year but will shortly be moving out here. As seems the way in Isaan, before long you end up with a menagerie of farmyard animals. One of my wife's favourites is her fledgling flock of geese which, whatever happens, she is not bringing to Dubai.

Here's a photo of three of them (yes, I designed and built the goose house myself - good innit?).



Anyway, as a rather poor substitute for her geese I did a quick painting of two of the idiotic creatures which I've framed and hung in the kitchen for her:

[Roobarb]

And so to the final one of this series, more boats.



I'm not too sure why I embarked on this one as it turned out to be a Grade 1 Pain in the Ass. All the curves of the hull shapes, then trying to do the light and shadows on those curves. I got a bit bored of it after a while which probably shows.

Anyway, with lots of wall space to fill up I stuck it in a bright frame and, like with Wadi Rum, then hung it in another poorly lit part of the house so it adds a splash of colour and with a bit of luck nobody will pay much attention to what's actually in the frame.



And with that I'm signing off. I hope to have the time to continue painting, but with the family descending and stuff going on at work it may take something of a back seat in the coming months/years.

Again, as before, thank you Nigel for the inspiration. To anyone else contemplating it - go on, have a go!

[nigelandjan]

This is just fantastic mate ! You are a very talented artist , and I understand family commitments etc , but I really hope you can continue to find a little time to paint

Sorry cannot green at the mo

[Roobarb]

This is just fantastic mate ! You are a very talented artist , and I understand family commitments etc , but I really hope you can continue to find a little time to paint

Nigel, that's high praise coming from you - many thanks indeed. Funnily enough that painting was by far my favourite subject matter, I just didn't want it to end. At the risk of boring everyone I reckon it looks better in its frame:



I also enjoyed painting the office girl. One of the funny things I found is that as a basecoat you sort of need to guess what the woman looks like without makeup, paint that and then gradually apply mascara, blusher, lipstick etc afterwards.

I guess a skill I need to learn is to look at a subject and work out how long it will be before I lose interest. Then I need to adjust the level of detail/size of the painting to reflect that. The boats in the last picture are a case in point. It should have been done on paper half the size. I got bored of it towards the end and so didn't really bother to finish it off properly.

[nigelandjan]

Landamere quay near to me in the UK in acrylics this time . I love it down at this spot its so quiet

[Dillinger]

I walked into this place tonight, you've been doing this art thing all wrong Nige




This took my eye


330,000 baht, so not for me

This one I liked at just under 20,000 baht. They throw the Perspex case in for free




This I liked too at 13,000 baht



These are what I don't get...



I could do that with a ruler.... Guess how much