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By series, I mean working on multiple paintings with a common theme…
Some of you will know that this is fairly common practice for me, I like the continuity etc etc…
My last series was about the Thames and its dockside buildings and boats during the steam and sail period… so Spritsail barges featured heavily, along with tugs.
I’m currently developing, or let’s say experimenting using mixed media, the theme being churches. Not completely satisfied with the style I want to adopt as yet, but getting there.
Anyway, I’ve decided to include other interesting buildings in the series - castles and other buildings of merit, so it opens up a whole new range of possibilities. There are some great castles near my place, not pristine but derelict and crumbling which I find more appealing.
Plus a few superb examples of architecture, it’s all on my doorstep. I’ve started Chartley Castle earlier, it’s only a few miles away and I’ve got a ton of my own reference material, I’ve drawn it so many times… plus I’ve taken a drive out to get acquainted and done a few new and loose sketches… I might post a couple… I know a few of you like this sort of thing!
I’ve nothing new to show you yet, but by Monday I will have Chartley Castle completed, and I’ll give a brief history also, this is particularly interesting as it held one of the Queens awaiting transportation to another castle for execution — on that gruesome note I’ll leave it there.
Thanks for reading…
A pen and wash from my last series…Thames Dockland buildings.
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Thanks Marjorie… the point I was trying to make is that one idea can inadvertently lead to another! And so on - rather than scratching around trying to think of something to paint!
Castles are so interesting, but I’m keeping local and using my own reference… I’ll be driving to each one to refresh my sketchbook.
Stafford Castle next i think, then Tutbury.
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Great minds think alike - I have made a tentative start (drawings so far) on a series I'm planning on the erosion of this part of the Isle of Wight coast on which I (precariously) live. We've had some dramatic falls, as the softer chalk splits away - taking a local café, or most of it, with it. Perhaps a depressing subject, when I think of the lovely walks we used to have along the coast to the Devil's Chimney, and other areas we thought anchored securely by beech trees, which have now gone. But that's life, and I hope to record it as best I can - my only real sadness being that Alan Bickley could do it a damn' sight better than I can - but he's not here and I am, so there....
If anyone is interested in this general subject, take a visit to YouTube and consult the drone flights of one Steve Jones, who posts as Wild Writer, and also as Cornish Van dweller (he actually lives in, or from, a van). As well as the eroded cliffs, he posts videos of the substantial land still remaining on the island, where wildlife flourishes and the ground is stable. Inspiration from which I'm intending to benefit asap, since I can't get out and about in the countryside myself now.
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I'd love to create a series of paintings.
Back in the day I wanted to take a series of 'men at work' photographs. Inspired by watching a scaffolding of workers cementing the side of a footbridge. I had to catch the train for work, damn. So couldn't go back home for my camera. ( pre mobile phone days)
I should choose something less ambitious, otherwise I'd never get started.
Will look into Steve Jones as I'm heading out to west Cornwall this year.
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I like to work in a series , actually I do it without really thinking about it , either trees, boats or landscapes all within my comfort zone I will add. Back to Alan’s series it’s alway interesting and inspiring seeing you work in progress and following a series of paintings I do believe it inspires others to think about doing something similar.
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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Some more interest in this topic I’m pleased to see, but where is everyone these days - it’s a good forum with skilled member artists that are able to offer advice on most questions related to art, technical and otherwise!
Anyway, I’ll post a couple (at most) of the sketches I did on site at Chartley the other day, I know Paul is interested in preliminary drawings.
