sea blue sky abstracts

Another post in March, things are looking up, think I must be getting organised at long last?!  So, the first four  paintings shown here  will be delivered to Art Space Gallery, St Ives  within the next few days hopefully. 'Sunlit Cliffs Behind the Lighthouse'  oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.   SOLD 'A Fine Morning at the Beach' oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Good Weather and Surf' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Sun After Rain, Porthmeor West' oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.  SOLD The larger painting (below) will be delivered to the framer tomorrow and eventually hang on the wall at  Art Space Gallery, St Ives 'Porthmeor, March Shower' oil on primed hardboard, 21 x 19,5cm. SOLD Here's a new addition, delivered to Art Space Gallery on 21st March, 'No Shelter at the Cove Today' oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.   SOLD Click the images to enlar...

Last Thursday found me at a workshop held by Michele Wright and Marie Keeling at the Porthmeor Printmakers premises in Back Road West, St Ives.  There was an opportunity to produce a drypoint print before moving on to create collagraph prints - the first example of which can be seen below. With collagraph, all sorts of materials can be stuck onto board to create texture and imagery.  My board has some sort of fibre thread, bracken fronds, anaglypta and at the top, pieces of an absorbent paper that's often used to wrap flowers, all glued down with PVA adhesive.  The entire surface of the board is then sealed with Shellac and when dry is put through the printing press.   (Now I've slipped up here having not photographed the prints before painting on them at home - my favourite part!) The first was very inky - there's even a splodge at the bottom.  The bracken has been painted over with watercolour and gouache with pink gouache over the light area around...