Kynance II

Kynance II
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Lovely work, Steve, I must visit your blog and read your LP article, as have tried a few acrylics recently and could use some guidance.

I agree that sounds really interesting Steve, I got some acrylics but only made a rather dithering effort with them and then just after I started I think it was Robert who commented on someone else's acrylic painting that they gone overboard with using it like watercolour resulting in a really wishy washy painting, I read that and stopped in my tracks with mine because realised that was exactly what I had been doing, so put it one side and never priced it up again because it was just easier to go back to my easier regular medium! Anyway love this paintings of yours from Kynance Cove Steve, it is super work

This is great. I like acrylic on watercolour paper too. Constable even used oils but only on 100% cotton paper. This works really well.

Cheers Stephen, Ros and Dawn. If I can be of any help with the acrylics Stephen, just drop me a line on the blog. Our first attempts at any medium should be seen as just that Ros, even if you think they're wishy washy. Like any other medium its just down to practice and being able to accept that not all our ducklings will turn into swans :-) Have another go, its only paint.

Lovely and I have been there many times in the past, water very cold though.

Cheers Karyl, I get down there to paint with a couple of artists most years at the close of season, and every year one of them goes for a dip and assures me it sets him up for the day...I'll take his word for it and stick to my cup of tea :-) All the best, Steve

Cheers Elizabeth, All the best, Steve

Hi Steve: I found your lovely works, and blog, whilst surfing the internet for just the right painting of Kynance Cove for my wife..... Forgive my ignorance, but is this painting, and any of your others, for sale? thanks very much. Peter

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Acrylic on watercolour paper 29 cm x 20 cm. We were working from photographs in class this week and I used this picture from a much visited site I have painted at many times in Kynance Cove Cornwall, see my blog for more. I will use this painting as one of the examples in an article planned for next year Leisure Painter, but until then when not take a peek at the summer issue out now and read Acrylic-Like Oil A set of acrylics in your paint box gives you two media for the price of one. In the previous two issues Steve Strode looked at how this versatile medium can be used like watercolour. This month and next he takes advantage of it textural quality and shows how to use it with oil painting techniques.

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Why not visit me on stevestrode.com and sign up for my monthly newsletter. I've been painting for about twenty five years now and teaching for about twenty. Specialising in Art and Education, I tutor on a Painting Degree and deliver my own courses, workshops and demonstrations in painting…

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