Oakwood, Oak Leaf
A large painting of an oak leaf by a large number of people and me.
Friday, 30 September 2011
Grand opening today
Friday, 29 July 2011
Piecing it all back together
I enjoyed watching this develop today as I stuck all of the panels together. There are some brilliant juxtapositions.
Friday, 24 June 2011
Thursday, 23 June 2011
More paintings
A thoroughly enjoyable two days spent painting with the staff and pupils at Oakwood and we have very nearly got all the panels painted. A great range of aspirations today from 'swimming with dolphins' to 'being a princess' to 'being an astrophysicist' and a couple of budding scientists.
Getting ready
Second day of painting today, we got over 200 done yesterday so, well over half way there. Looking forward to see what everyone paints.
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
A selection of paintings
Here is a small selection of today's painting at the school. We had a great day painting our aspirations and achievements. I started the day wanting to be an artist but now I think I want to be an astronaut or maybe a rockstar/ spiderman all in one.
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Cutting it!
Monday, 20 June 2011
Tiny, Tiny Pieces
That took a while but only one little blister, I will show you the film if my computer ever let's me render it.
Cut to Ribbons
Vertical cuts, now for the horizontal ones, there is few more of them to do!
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Over to the kids
Right that's it for my painting part. The next bit is me chopping this up into lots of pieces and getting all the kids (and grown ups) to do their painting then putting it all back together again.
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Episode Three
Monday, 13 June 2011
The State of Play Today
This is where we are today, 'but how did you get there?' I hear you ask, well wait for a bit and I'll show you, just finishing editing now.
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Episode One
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Winning Drawings
Friday, 10 June 2011
Projected leaf
This is the original drawing projected onto the canvas, meaning I can accurately recreate the line from the drawing. I have filmed what happens next (am editing now will be on here later on) ....
Thursday, 9 June 2011
First layer, shocking pink!
The first, slightly alarmingly pink, layer of paint goes down. And there are my overalls!
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Studio ready
I love to see in other artists studios so I hope you like having a peek into my temporary studio. The large panel will be the oak leaf and the left hand panel will be worked up in the same way as the big one and is for spares in case I need any extra bits. There are also some canvas scraps for testing paint and texture on as I go. The projector is all set up with the drawing ready to be painted up. Pink undercoat first, it will look shocking but all will become clear at the end!
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Priming
It is good to get started, I am priming the big canvas that will ultimately get cut up into 300 pieces. For the time being I am concentrating on getting it nice and white ready for the colour.