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Happy new year to all :)
I've come back to the forum after a month of so away, and it seems somewhat quiet - so as it's a new year, and I'm sure many of us have plans for the year ahead, anyone care to share?
Here are mine:
* Do more sketching
* Paint my self-portrait (this has been on my list for at least a year)
* Visit my local duck pond regularly with my sketch pad (and paints if I'm feeling brave)
* Visit more exhibitions, at the national galleries as well as some of the independent ones - I learn a lot and get lots of ideas doing this
* Enter a few open art competitions / submit paintings to local exhibitions
* Go through my growing list of things to paint
* Post to my blog more often - I'd have one since I think 2015, it has two entries
* Talk to more artists - I find it very inspiring and learn a lot
* Oh, and try and sell more :D
So, what plans do you have?
Kay Marriott
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I want to try different mediums and different subjects. (I've just bought my first set of oils)
I need to try to be 'looser' with my painting, I tend to want to control exactly where my paint goes, but there's a beauty in looseness.
Find my 'niche'. Maybe I don't have one, but I think most artists have a particular style or medium the do better than any other.
I'd love to have a piece hung somewhere public, a pub, a gallery, a shop, but that's a big thing.
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I think my plans will include never using an Ampersand panel for an acrylic again .... I'm really struggling with one I started before my operation, and while I need new glasses before I can really see what I'm doing, which has to wait for the healing process, I think it's the panel that's the problem. I had a great time with an oil painting on this surface, but the acrylic isn't working at the moment and I may paint over it all and start afresh: it's very smooth, that's the trouble - not a problem with oil, which makes its own texture, but it encourages me to be very detailed and I do NOT like painting detail - even if it may look as if I do, my marks are actually not of the painstaking variety (as you'd know if you got very close to my canvases: I try to ensure that no one ever does). The paint just isn't flowing on this surface, I have to keep stopping to mix up fresh paint and add water, and by the time I've done that and gone back to the canvas - or panel rather - I've forgotten where I was.
Don't know if anyone else has tried these with acrylic and has any observation to make?
Anyway, my plans for the new year are like my plans for most years - fluid. I'd like to go back to drawing with silverpoint again, but most of my ambitions are quite limited - I don't feel like doing more exhibitions, I don't really feel like marketing myself anew - I've had a year-long dip in that respect - I'd like to find a physical gallery, rather than anything online, which would do most of the work for me .... in short, I don't think I've quite got into 2017 yet; and I'll tell 'ee what - it doesn't take any time at all to get out of practice; and what I most need to do is get on with some work and revive my skills before they go into hibernation.
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I have a number of drawing tutorials setup for Tuesday evenings life and still life, i have a watercolour course for saturday mornings, and for my 50th my wife is treating me to a week long oil painting course in St Ives. I am hoping to generally improve my skills this year, and in particular improve my obseravtional skills.
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by Barry67