Simply red (88)

After the recent death of my very good friend, Jan, I decided to take a break from my usual art classes, where we had both been going for many years, and try something different. That something is abstract art classes with David Giles. Every week David chooses an artist and does a demonstration painting in their style and then we students have a go.

Shown here is my latest painting called ‘Simply red’. This was inspired by a painting of a vase of flowers by Kerri Blackman, but it looks nothing like her work. I was surprised how simplistic and naïve this work turned out as I was after a looser style … but I really like it.

Sailing (35)

This is a picture I made up while I was messing around with a canvas and lime wash. The background looked so sea-like that I just had to add some boats. They were done in acrylic.

The boats look to me like they’re having fun, skidding freely across the waves. They’re probably technically inaccurate but, hey, this is not a realistic painting!