A few shots of my frame making , basically I make two sorts of frames the float frames here and the more traditional frames
I have access to odd bits of timber from a mate and a local timber yard at very much mates rates to use up odd bits
last week I got hold of an absolute ton of the most delicious kiln dried Larch for an absolute song £30 just to get it out his way in his back garden , I will rip it all down the middle with my table saw and effectively get twice the amount to make frames with
Earlier this year I built this small extension on my workshop to assemble my frames in
I'm proud of my 38" waist , also proud I have never done drugs
Good news on this one , the couple who bought it have now requested two much bigger paintings of their property from other angles in the garden , apparently I’ve been told money isn’t a problem
^ Congrats Nigel you deserve it with the efforts you have put in to develop your style. I find your trees by water with reflections, and your seascapes are your strengths, they have really come on over the past few years.
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Ho ho ho - they might regret saying that later! just joking, you’re a man of integrity and will give them some beautiful paintings at a fair price for sure.
A long painting like that will be looking excellent!
I love this painting, but small point of order… are they not sail boats?
Yes they are sailing barges but have engines to help at times of need , if you look at the right hand one you will see a couple of small figures to give an idea of scale ,, they really are huge when your next to them
A sailing barge is a kind of barge (a shoal-draft flat-bottomed boat) propelled by sails. Traditional types of sailing barges include:
- Dutch barge[1] is a traditional flat-bottomed shoal-draught barge, originally used to carry cargo in the shallow Zuyder Zee and the waterways of Netherlands.[2]
- Scow, derived from the Dutch "schouw",[3] historically in common use in the American Great Lakes and other parts of the U.S., in southern England, and in New Zealand. By 1848 scows were being rigged for sailing using leeboards or sliding keels.[3] They were also used as dumb barges towed by steamers.[3]
- Thames sailing barge, a type of commercial sailing boat,[4] once common on the River Thames in London. The flat-bottomed barges with a shallow draught and leeboards, were perfectly adapted to the Thames Estuary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_barge
I’ve set myself up a separate dedicated pallete with as near to exact colours John Constable used
One of the main challenges here is to make those lovely blue greens he painted our countryside with , which in truth in nature these are closer to than a lot of the hideous garish greens a lot of artists including myself end up mixing
His greens were formed with a mix of Prussian blue , cobalt blue and or yellow ochre , raw sienna plus touches of flake white , which is illegal now but I have the current equivalent of it
Set myself a little practice challenge on a piece of paper yesterday using this pallete and as few brush strokes as possible and using just two brushes to replicate a little of the Salisbury cathedral scene
Next time I go to paint out in Dedham ( if this bloody rain ever stops ) I shall have a go at producing two paintings of the same scene , one with Constables pallete and impressionistic style and one with my pallete and the way I normally fumble around .
Excellent results this weekend ,, two sold ,, another one commissioned and to cap it all , I have one of Turners great nieces coming round Wednesday to look at anything I have left for sale as she has seen my work and wants some
Happy days again ,, last week it all went a bit sour and fell flat when someone changed their mind about buying one
Up and down on the roller coaster
Making up a huge panel to paint on 4foot by 1 foot 6” for one of three wave paintings I’ve been commissioned to do .
3 coats of gesso to go on this monster first ,, this lovely young lady is one of the moneys no prob brigade
I enjoy my woodwork so this is all part of my hobby time , love it ,, no time pressures either.
Tommorows a lovely day here so I’m off out painting plein air at Flatford it’s 19 degs lol nearly November
Got a lady paying me starting Friday lunchtime for oil painting lessons and she is also buying another one so all good here
Unfortunately never happened Wills ,, she messaged me she is stuck in France , probs with the dog , but will be round the following week when home
Had a little autumnal paint out in my home town of Frinton ,, Crescent Gardens where people love to come and sit ,, it was nice and sunny but very cold .
Some dear old lady saw me from her home overlooking the gardens and brought me out a flask and poured me a coffee and a home made scone ,, absolutely delicious it was to .
Anyway a rather nice hour and a half before two baskets of ironing
I have just made a bit of a jig for my mitre saw for the new picture frames I’m making so a bit later on I will take some pics and share the info if anyone is interested in making your own frames it’s a fabulous bit of kit to make the job so much easier
A couple of shots of my frame making with this beautifull Larch I got hold of
You can see the sacrificial fence I made from some of the larch which is the way to go for repetitive frame cuts
to make your frame mitres square and at right angles the opposing sides MUST be EXACTLY the same size
I ripped these pieces down from 120mm boards into two 55mm pieces from each board , then cut out an 11mm rebate from the side I just sawn , again I made a jig for my table saw to do this as the shitty plastic blade surrounds on most cheap table saws will just submarine your work as you feed it through giving you a cut anything from 11mm to 20mm and is totally useless , I will take some photos of the jig I made for that a bit later
after glueing up with Titebond premium I drill 50mm deep across through the mitres then glue in a 6mm hardwood dowel as shown in the last picture
I like the impressionist zebra crossing. I'm jealous its that sunny.
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