Gerhardt Richter

Inspiration for adding colour to my
portrait...

Completed the text on my self portrait

The text from love letters and poems is now complete! I am now learning how use glazes over the text to add colour to my artworks.

Self Portrait Progress

The bottom half of Self Portrait is now done! I am now moving up to the brain area! The stubble has worked well I think. I was wondering how I would approach this but using smaller pieces of poem text seems to have worked to create the texture needed. Soon I will experiment with applying colour!

Northampton Town and County 99th Annual Show!

It was a great night at the private view last night! There are over 250 works of art on display of all types from different artists! The show runs from now until the 8 th December at the Northampton art gallery and museum. Well worth a visit.

Somewhere in Scotland....

I have just finished a painting of a landscape depicting some where in Scotland. It was an experiment where I used sand and plaster, hessian cloth, and collaged text as a base texture. I then added colour with acrylic, impasto medium and colour pencil. All applied with speed and lots of splattering, scrapping of a knife, scribbling, using fingers, and my favourite a toothbrush!

The studio portrait.

Back in the studio... Managed to get the next row started. The nose has now appeared. I am enjoying getting all the details on the skin - but now wandering about how to get the stubble texture accurate..... Probably more contrasty text will help. We shall see....

Postcard warhorse sold out!

I am really pleased I have sold so many postcards of Warhorse at Thorpe Malsor! Time to re-stock and order some more....