Last edited by Mike A; 03-10-2020 at 11:44 AM.
My website: www.mikeainscoughart.co.uk
One of the things I'm noticing about your work is that you have light as a featured element. The towns are bright and sunny and very inviting. Your affection for your subjects comes through loud and clear.
"Not a bit is wasted and the best is yet to come. . ." -- remembered from a dream
Very true - I love the interplay of light and shadow, which bring out the form and structure of a building. They form patterns and echoes across a picture. I like to leave whole areas of a single colour and then contrast these patches with smaller areas of intense detail - all of which (I hope...) invites the viewer into the picture. I work mainly from my own photos these days but, while photos can help to bring out structure and proportions, I never use the colours in the photo - to do so would just end up creating an unharmonious jumble. I always try and create a colour palette expressly for the painting - one which lightens the heart.
The act of painting, for me, is to re-live my own experience of being there, and I'm lost in the place being painted when I'm doing it. Finishing a painting is actually quite sad - satisfying, but also knowing that the "being there" is finished!
My website: www.mikeainscoughart.co.uk