One Giant Step
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I've had this one sketched onto the canvas since before we moved house and we've been here nearly 6 years. 'One Giant Step' Acrylics 16" x 16" deep edged canvas Finished November 14 It is from a photo I took several years ago behind the Bishop's Palace in St.Davids', Wales. Of course I've adapted it a little. the ford is higher and deeper and I added the stepping stones and removed some unecessary stuff from the bridge. I'm still in infancy with using acrylics and learning as I go along. For this one I experimented with some texture pastes which I used to make the masonry and bridge rough. Then I used fluid acrylics diluted with flow improver to seep into the mortar before applying more paste on top and more acrylic colours. Then I added further paste to create a rough surface over which I drybrushed varied colours unmixed on the brush to give a weathered effect.
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Lin Goodwin
Lin has always enjoyed expressing herself through words and pictures until life got in the way. In her teens she painted semi abstract dream like sketches inspired by record sleeve art by Roger Dean and Hypgnosis in her bedroom. She again took up Art in 2006 due to poor health and disability and…
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