'Small Change'

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A good image without over stating every detail.

Posted by Anonymous User on Thu 10 May 05:40:30

Very nicely painted, Matthew - an original subject for a still life...

Posted by Jan Rossington on Thu 10 May 05:58:15

I like that you hint at the details on these very familiar objects and the brain just fills it all in.

Posted by D Hillman on Thu 10 May 06:44:23

Well done Matthew, a super little painting of a complex subject and something we are all familiar with in everyday life but wouldn’t necessarily think to paint. Good luck with the exhibition!

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Thu 10 May 07:56:39

Imaginitive and well painted in a great loose, suggestive style. Hard subject done well. Nice work Matthew.

Posted by Jim Morris on Thu 10 May 09:30:05

Its a lovely painting Matthew - so much skill!

Posted by Georgina Potter on Thu 10 May 11:22:11

Beautifully loose piece and very well drawn. All good wishes for your exhibition.

Posted by Thalia Stones on Thu 10 May 12:02:32

Brilliant , Matthew. I love this kind of Still Life, ordinary objects which take on another dimension when they become the subject of a painting. Handled beautifully too, very "painterly".

Posted by Marjorie Firth on Thu 10 May 13:14:35

Brilliant idea and superbly painted Matthew

Posted by Russell Edwards on Thu 10 May 13:19:06

I like this, I don't know why but I think it's something about a pile of money that brings out the magpie in me. Scrolling through I had to have a closer look :)

Posted by Paulette Farrell on Thu 10 May 18:26:13

Love these coins, Matthew. Lovely loose treatment.

Posted by Shirley May on Thu 10 May 18:35:12

Well done Matthew!!!

Posted by nikolaos pandazis on Thu 10 May 21:12:21

Well done - I think this is a really good painting of an unusual subject. Keep going!

Posted by Fiona Rossington on Thu 10 May 22:30:09

Hang on Studio Wall

09/05/2018

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A very long time since I tried doing any painting. Alas life has got in the way big time in recent years. Working full time and caring for mum at weekends. I wanted to do a painting to submit for the 106th CWSA exhibition in early June, as I haven' exhibited anywhere for a couple of years now. I'd been thinking of possible small still life subjects to fit in a frame that I already had with only a 12 x 12 cms aperture mount. One of the possible subjects was some coins. I set the subject up and took photos of it to work from when I had time. I chose a small off cut of acrylic primed grayboard and gridded it and drew out the rough positions of the coins first. Then left it for a couple of days and blocked out the majority of the coins and then on a rainy weekend stuck with it and finished the painting. I realised soon after starting it was a difficult subject to paint so small, as even with tiny brushes such a detailed subject was difficult to capture. I knew I wanted to do an im

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