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Signs of Autumn
It's more fun
than you think painting rural art!
By :
Deborah Susan Jones :
Editor
Every year, in September into
October, our less than carefully tended Blackberry patch, which we keep
cut back but otherwise left to grow as it wishes, yields enough fruit
to facilitate a couple of gallons of beautiful homemade wine. We spoil
ourselves with this particular wine by making it with Shropshire Honey
rather than sugar, which is expensive but well worth it, giving a
lovely mellow and fruity taste to the finished wine.
In addition, the
patch yields, along with the Dandelions that grow around the garden in
the Spring, a
decent crop of tea, the leaves carefully washed and dried (a challenge
as the underside of the leaves are barbed) and then placed in recycled
jars in the kitchen.
Blackberries,
around the back of the studio, therefore are both fun to paint and
drink!
Underpainted in
ink onto archival cotton rag, Peter then painted secondary
layers, glazing thin coats of acrylic over the ink to for a smooth
sheen finish to the entire picture and then completed the image by
glazing again, successive layers of oil paint, building up and up until
a lightly textured surface presented itself - completed.
To
set off the tone and colours in the picture he then created a bespoke
frame, matching the colours of the fruit and stems and using the
repellent nature of a first oil paint coating to repel a secondary wash
of acrylic and then using the handle of a small brush to "squiggle" the
paint to create a beautifully textured multi-coloured and toned
detailed appearance.
Our
pictures come with, or without, frames, and you can commission your
very own style and have it created to suit your environment or simple
choose from one of the styles below
Deborah Vernell Jones
About "Artist"
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