Pebbles

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Stunning and beautiful painted.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Thu 20 Apr 18:42:23

Another good one

Posted by Christine Rogan on Thu 20 Apr 18:47:01

Really good, Helen

Posted by Maureen Sherman on Thu 20 Apr 19:08:58

Very well executed, really great painting.

Posted by Collette Hughes on Thu 20 Apr 19:42:31

Superb Helen.

Posted by Stephen Hulse on Thu 20 Apr 20:13:55

Incredible work Helen, top job!

Posted by Alan Bickley on Thu 20 Apr 22:49:15

The way to make something quite ordinary absolutely stunning. Thank-you for sharing your technique.

Posted by Sandra Kennedy on Thu 20 Apr 23:02:15

Beautiful work; detail and colours are superb.

Posted by Andrew Roles on Fri 21 Apr 05:29:10

Great and beautiful, Helen.

Posted by Coral Pastor Caparrós on Fri 21 Apr 06:26:27

Very well painted, has a lot of interest.

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Fri 21 Apr 06:39:45

Superb (again!)

Posted by Heather Love on Fri 21 Apr 06:47:15

That frayed rope just makes this rather wonderful.

Posted by Sylvia Evans on Fri 21 Apr 10:21:58

Very interesting use of acrylic. Using a thick gel to make the rope stand out is such a good idea. It must have taken a long time to do!

Posted by Peter Robinson on Fri 21 Apr 18:22:23

Thank you everyone. The hardest bit was getting the gel into the squeeze bottle! (I used a spare masking fluid bottle with nib)

Posted by Helen Martell on Sat 22 Apr 19:55:56

Wonderful work Helen.

Posted by Spencer Lambeth-Angell on Sun 23 Apr 09:40:39

Hang on Studio Wall

20/04/2023

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40 cm square acrylic on stretch canvas. This painting is the subject of a ‘how to’ I have written for the April e-newsletter. Subsequently, it partly inspired the crashing waves painting I posted a while ago, in terms of technique. The colours/ texture of the pebbles are built up with acrylic glazes, and the old rope has thick gel drawn on, to make it stand out on the canvas (though you can’t see it in the photo here)

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Helen Martell

I've been painting (acrylics) for about 12 years, after going on a painting day with my mother. I guess I've always been creative (it's in the family genes), not always with paint. Over the decade it started mainly with pet portraits, as word got around my workplace that my stuff wasn't too bad..…

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