Burton Agnes

I'm still getting ready for our first exhibition of the year.  We are setting up at Burton Agnes Hall Courtyard gallery next Friday.  I have all the work finished, but still framing the results.  I have taken the photographs though, and remembered to sign each piece of work.

South beach.  Acrylic & watercolour on gessoed paper

This piece is one of three I am framing.  I started them in Joy Green's workshop, using watercolours, but I have since worked over them several times with acrylic.  I found that acrylic does wipe off the gesso in the same way that watercolour did.

Had a wonderful workshop with Lesley Birch last Sunday.  We experimented with using three primaries, any red, yellow & blue.  Later we added in white and black.  The results with some primaries was amazing.  I did stick to safe colours, cad.yellow, permanent rose and ultramarine, but some of the earth colour results were lovely and it's something I want to experiment more with when I have the time.

acrylic approx. 10 x 12 inch

This is one of the many pieces I did on Sunday.  It needs more work, but I love the energy in it.

Another watercolour

Another watercolour today.  I am enjoying doing these, but I don't have much watercolour paper left, so need to get some more.  The jug is rather tilted, as was the vase yesterday.  I quite like tilted as it gives the work some tension.

Jug of garden flowers, watercoluor, 8 x 12 inch

What I don't like is the leaf coming out of the jug, above the spout.  I need to wet and blot this to make it softer, and maybe add a stronger leaf on the right side to balance it out a little.

This was worked from a photograph I took of Burton Agnes snowdrop walk.   I am hoping it will inspire me to do something in textile from it.  I have a few ideas, but just need the time.

Burton Agnes snowdrop walk

and Daily Observational drawing No. 3