Art Diary: Week Ending 29th June

23/06/2013

I spent a lot of this Sunday writing and doing other work on the computers (this took more time than I planned in fact so I will now have to catch up with other work during the week).

24/06/2013

A reasonably good day and I finished painting the landscape on both versions of COUPLE IN A LANDSCAPE and then tidied a few of the lines – not many as I tried to clean them up a bit as I went along.

25/06/2013

I was out all morning and when I finally got settled in my studio I completed the main painting stage of MEMORIES IN A LANDSCAPE.

MEMORIES IN A LANDSCAPE – work in progress

26/06/2013

I added all the “personality” symbols to COUPLE IN A LANDSCAPE. These painting are a wedding present but I only know the bride so this is pseudo-charactisation with the symbols derived from the male and female images hidden in the landscape.

COUPLE IN A LANDSCAPE – work in progress

After this I worked on another small landscape: painting part of LANDSCAPE FROM A DOUBLE DECKER BUS.

LANDSCAPE FROM A DOUBLE DECKER BUS – work in progress

27/06/2013

My wife was off work mid week again; she went to town and I worked in the garden much of the day – this probably wont become a habit but it does mean I am slowly catching up with all the urgent work in the garden. We went out for a meal in the late afternoon so no creative work done all day (if you exclude deciding what to eat!).

28/06/2013

I painted in the symbols of the two COUPLE IN A LANDSCAPE paintings and completed both works.

COUPLE IN A LANDSCAPE ONE

COUPLE IN A LANDSCAPE TWO

I then returned to working on the small landscapes: painting part of SIDBURY HILL SEEN FROM WINDMILL HILL.

SIDBURY HILL SEEN FROM WINDMILL HILL – work in progress

My wife and I went out in the evening to celebrate our wedding anniversary.

29/06/2013

The usual weekend jobs and I then retired to my study to write and work on the computers. I planned to paint during the latter part of the afternoon but ran out of time.