Post YOUR artwork here, cmon !!

[david44]

Good stuff it isn't as easy as it looks as my daubs will confirm.

[kingwilly]

Nice. The thing with oils is not to rush them

[Mendip]

^ Another thing that we learnt was to make sure you have something suitable to clean the brushes with when finished!

Her homework is to do the same picture with oils and acrylic, so I'll see how that goes today.

[kingwilly]

Methylated spirits.

[cyrille]

Yaa Dong may work.

As well as improving the taste.

[Edmond]

Well done Mini-Mendy.


As I saw that I looked down and saw a few pieces of kiddie art in front of me. We're heading to Sukhothai for a few days tomorrow, and before we go someplace I give the kid a project of researching then producing a TAT worthy folder with hand written information, and sketches, which we use when we get there.

For Sukhothai this involves writing the name, dates and historical information + sketches of the different ancient temples we'll go to.

Wat Si Chum, or Temple of the holy gathering, believed to have been built in the 13th century, according to her blurb.






Wat Mahathat and Wat Sa Si.




Wat Si Sawat





One more to go, plus a map of the entire historical park, and it's time to be Edmondana and Edweeniana Jones.

[NamPikToot]

We're heading to Sukhothai for a few days tomorrow

we lasted 5 hours and just left leaving 2 nights at the hotel unused, good luck, didn't find many good food options

[Edmond]

^ Someone didn't have Football Manager 2024 on their tablet.

[cyrille]

We loved it.

3 days wandering around just flew by.

Having said that, finding good accommodation and food was not easy for us either.

Breakfast at our place was served in the nightclub attached to our hotel.

We ate while they were getting around to emptying the previous night's ash trays.

We found somewhere OK outside central Sukhothai for the subsequent nights.

[Edmond]

Apparently that tosser Mao thought it was okay for a few days.

Sukhothai Historical Park. A Photo Tour.


Though there is some criticism as the thread progresses.


N+J even shows up and does a painting of one of the pics.

Very nice N+J

[nigelandjan]

With Nigel's permission I'd quite like to post up some pictures during the daughter's journey through Art and Design GCSE.

Art and Design certainly isn't an easy option and she probably gets more homework for this subject than all the others combined.

It ain't easy on her Dad's wallet either.

This was her first attempt using oil paints.

Awww bless her allways good to have a go ,, btw mate you don’t need my permission please post away anything she does.

Very impressed with the mixing going on on the palette

As for keeping costs down keep an eye out for some old cardboard for her to paint and practice on

Very well done

[nigelandjan]

Autumnal walk with the better half in view in Constable country on our way to Flatford for a coffee
Oil on canvas panel A4 size

[Mendip]

^^ Thank you, I didn't want to hijack your lovely thread and hope I can add to it.

My daughter changed school in Thailand recently to enable Art and Design iGCSE, hopefully followed on by A Level in Art (so long as her dad keeps working).

I would love to post her progress here.

And her mixing palette was a cut up cardboard box, but she now has a proper plastic palette that doesn't absorb the paints.

It's a learning curve...

Acrylic giraffe tomorrow... if she gets her teenage arse out of bed in time...

[Topper]

I'm not a father, an artist or anything really....

Edmond, you said you asked your daughter to research a place and then create art for it....

Why not integrate it with something like MS word or project to bring together both worlds?

It's something I did as a teacher, both art and the use of software to expand their creativity.

[Mendip]

^^^ I have a lot of questions building up for you Nigel.

The first... do you make your own oil canvas frames, or buy them made up?

The daughter has inherited my love of animals and her first project is 'animals', to which end we'll be visiting Korat Zoo this week.

Oil right, acrylic left.

[kingwilly]

Buy them made.

or buy canvas board (cheaper).

[nigelandjan]

Fab work from your daughter Mendip ,, yes I make my own frames and panels to paint on .

No idea what area your in , we will be in north east Issan November next year but also travel about and if you would like us to come round I’d be more than happy to come and offer any help I can.

Autumn colours oil on canvas panel A4 size ,, on the Stour Dedham areas

[Looper]

I am liking this



Looks slightly surrealist with the blue hues and the light bouncing off the branches

^^^Acrylic with surrealist blue patches and sparkling doe-eyes is the giraffe of choice, for me

[nigelandjan]

We are on the Costa del drug mafia ,, enjoying some winter sun at a very nice all inc hotel

I love to paint along this coastline in southern Spain trying to capture the wonderful colours and motions of the sea

Nothing too spectacular as it’s daubed in gouache , but it’s better than nothing ,, I will do a nice oil of this when we get back home instead of this Mickey Mouse paint .

gouache on watercolour paper rough grain

[kingwilly]

Micky mouse paint? It looks a 1,000x better than my skills!

[nigelandjan]

Thank Wills ,, will do a better oil when I get home ,, a bit of good news that one sold to the family above us in the hotel we’re in plus they have ordered a rather strange commission of a family gravestone to be painted with a back ground of foliage , plus his brother wants 7 of my older paintings of Dedham landscapes to fill a large empty wall in his house .
Will help pay for the upcoming Lanzarote holiday next April

[nigelandjan]

A small gouache study up in the valleys north of Marbella in Ronda

[david44]

A small gouache study up in the valleys north of Marbella in Ronda

I think the only words for your lovely picture of Ronda gorge is gorgeous. Muy bien Santa Maria de Magnificat

[nigelandjan]

Thankyou kindly David ^

[Edmond]

Superb colouring on that wave that's just breaking.