Tuesday 23 January 2018

Southampton Cenotaph Autumn - WIP stages

Southampton Cenotaph Autumn - WIP stages

hampshire artist davey WW1 memorial art WIP
Southampton Cenotaph Autumn - WIP stages of the oil painting
This composite photograph shows progress in stages of a painting called 'Southampton Cenotaph Autumn', created during September 2017, to highlight the season of Autumn, or the fall. The dominant feature of the artwork is the grade 1 listed monument designed by Edwin Lutyens, as to be found in Watts Park, Southampton, Hampshire.
The composition is based on one photograph with people added for scale. The original photograph was taken the previous year, just after Remembrance Sunday.
The first panel shows the initial drawing, scaled up from the composite photograph of the location, done with dark brown acrylic paint on an orange wash, or ground. The second image now shows basic under-painting, done in acrylics, of the basic colours and tones to be found in the scene. The colours are also kept darker than the final finished colours, so that those final colours have something to work against. In the third panel can be seen progress made on the final oil painted layers, while the last image shows the finished landscape painting of the monument in its autumnal setting.
The final painting can be seen in closer detail on this link.

Thursday 11 January 2018

Brown Standing Horse Eating - WIP stages

Brown Standing Horse Eating - WIP stages

Artist Davey underpainting of horse
composite image of 'Brown Standing Horse Eating' in stages
This composite photograph shows work in progress stages on an oil painting of a horse. The horse was enjoying the surroundings of the New Forest, Hampshire.
The first panel shows the initial subject drawn in with brown acrylic paint on an orange (ground) base. The second panel features some of the base colours placed in again using acrylic paint. This paintwork acts as a base for the oil paints to sit on during the final application, which can be seen to be started in the third panel. The fourth panel shows the completed painting. as an experiment I decided to keep some of the base painting showing, rather than have all of the painted area 'finished'.
The final painting can be seen clearly here on this link.