Post YOUR artwork here, cmon !!

[Neo]

Thanks Nigel, it's a sight for sore eyes; it was a beautiful morning.



I'll get a frame for it

[Neo]

Wow..! that's a great painting Nigel

A change from being in the water , lets get up in the air

One of our Lancs ploughing through the clouds

Acrylic on MDF board

[nigelandjan]

Thanks for that mate ,, that is now framed and hanging up on the wall of one of our ex drivers at work who is now recovering from a stroke .

He loves it as he ( up until 6 weeks ago ) had a pilots licence and flew regularly .

[nigelandjan]

A little pencil study of a well known landmark in Colchester

[charleyboy]

That Lancaster bomber pic...Awesome!

[blue]

A little pencil study of a well known landmark in Colchester

Nice little sketch there , I tried to google image the actual site to have a look, but no luck .

This photo came up from Colchester though, some lovely buildings there.

Someone's off to the Regal to see Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc...

One of my fingers is too croaked for a while, to pretend to draw it, but maybe I'll have a go at drawing it on the on the computer and painting it on there...
( aka: tracing the outlines with digital grease proof paper, followed by crayoning it in all in- painting by numbers style )

i'll have a problem with the front details of that chopped in half car though, anyone know what model it is ?

[nigelandjan]

Nice find Blue ,, that is in Crouch Street in the west of Colchester

That then turned into the Odeon cinema where I went as skinhead teen Sat morn pics and all that ,, it was our domain

Is that old car a Morris 8 ?

BTW my Dad had a shop in the same street

[nigelandjan]

Another little pencil sketch around Colchester , this old building is the siege house ,, had many a fillet steak with the ex wife in there before .

I believe now its just a hotel not a restaurant





This is at the foot of East Hill , there are bullet holes still on display on the walls from a battle when Charles 1st was around , I believe between the Royalists and the Parlimentarians ,, this was the main road in those days up to the castle .

Mabe I will do some more pencil sketches around the town if people like them

[nigelandjan]

Another sketch from Colchetser , this time in the old Dutch Quarter

Using pen + pencil this time

[nigelandjan]

On a recent trip to Spain in the Costa's region I was completely overcome by all the beautiful historic artwork on show ,, far too many to mention , however one thing I was set on was to try to reproduce some of these beautiful artworks to display up on my home walls .

Now before I start I want to very clearly state THIS IS NOT MY ARTWORK ,, ok this is just MY INTERPRETATION of the masters involved .

I have to clearly state that because anything else is just plagiarism , and believe me over the years I have seen numerous twatts exhibit work they claim to be theirs when it clearly is not.


Ok so first up in this series which caught my eye to be worthy of a place on my home walls is this little beauty ,,, " Destruction de la Invincible "

Unfortunately for the poor bloody crew this was anything BUT Indestructable



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[nigelandjan]

Now this beautiful naval history painting by Jose` Gartner is quite a large landscape format job ,, I have a frame which is about 1000 mm by 360 mm so i cut and sand a 6mm thick piece of MDF board to size .

Then i triple prime it in grey gesso ready for an under paint of acrylic colour , I have chosen cad yellow light + titanium white to under paint here ,, and off we go !




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[nigelandjan]

Right now that under paint is dry we are off with the oils ,, this is where it begins to get interesting , now I am NOT out to make a photo copy of this great painting but put my take on this masters work , as viewed through my eyes .

I start by freely painting the sky + distant buildings in various mixtures of phatlo blue / juanne brilliant / titanium white and cooling the blues down with sparsely used alizarin crimson




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[nigelandjan]

Sorry Pthalo Blue ^

Continued across the sky area making sure the horizon is roughly level so as not to mislead the eye later ,, some small amounts of raw umber being added to darken the sky a little in areas

[nigelandjan]

Now I have roughly blocked in where the Invincible hull has been chopped in two and a few ideas as to where the wave main shapes will flow ,, just cleaning out me brushes really

[nigelandjan]

I have just added a little blueish foam in front of the vessel to access the colour values before i go any further with the water

[nigelandjan]

Ok now a few different colours thrown into the sea , this is nothing to worry about at this time , all I am doing is trying to imagine the sense of movement I am going to need to generate with the light and shade as i go along .

Oil paint is opaque if painted on thickly enough , so its forgiving and will allow you go over and over until your happy , the opposite of the one chance water colour paint .

[nigelandjan]

Right I am gonna let that lot dry for a while now ,, then step back have another good look before i go any further ,,, be back later with some more

[El Gibbon]

great stuff Nigel

[nigelandjan]

Thanks E G mate ,, nice to see you again after a long time ,, are you still buying + selling them stocks mate ?

I really hope we can go out and paint together in March next year

Looking forward to that although I will have to buy some new acrylics in Udon before we start as I took most of mine home last visit

[Loy Toy]

Brilliant work Nigel and it is good to see your creative talent has not been undermined by your diet.

And a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Jan and your goodself.

[nigelandjan]

Cheers LT mate all the best to you and your family over Xmas + The New Year to

Thankyou kindly for taking the time to leave a comment as you drop by , the system won't allow it at the moment I am afraid

Anyway here we are a bit more progress done last week and secondly this weekend just gone








Bit more shape being formed in the waves and the foam , have to keep standing back and having a look as I go








I am really enjoying this one as I go along , practising different techniques and methods trying to learn all the time , hopefully leading me one day to turn out a very special painting of my own

[Roobarb]

Looks like it's turning out brilliantly Nigel. That sea is fantastic. Well done!

[charleyboy]

Brill...I got seasick looking at it!

[nigelandjan]

Right I have just about done with this one now ,, in the foreground under that wave on the left hand side in the original painting is a half of a wrecked boat ,, now I have painted this in twice , two different sizes and it just wrings the painting IMHO ,, so I have painted the water back in again of rthe umpteenth time and I am going without that bit of wreckage ,, anyway its up on me wall now and I am very happy with the result




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[Neverna]

Very nice, Nigel. I like the brightness of the painting and the lovely greens in the sea ... and the white foam. So much to like about it. Well done.
It enjoyed seeing how the painting unfolded, so to speak. How long did it take to paint in total?