Category: painting
Oil Demo – Painting Spring Trees
Studio Demo – Starting a large Seascape
Demo – Hook Lighthouse
http://www.facebook.com/brenda.malley.9/videos/3091137200917029/ Today’s video demo – Hook Lighthouse
Demo – Seascape with Cloudy Sky
News from the Studio
After a lovely Summer of outdoor painting and Plein Air workshops, it’s good to settle back into the studio and classroom for the Autumn Art Season. LATEST WORKS My largest painting yet – West Coast (diptych) 90 x 240 cm – is finished and on exhibit at the Trinity Gallery Dublin. This is from the Kilkee coastal trail in county Clare on a stormy evening, an immense horizon, shafts of sunlight breaking through the scudding clouds. The expansiveness of the scene and vastness of the ocean called for a much larger scale than I had considered before. I…
From Sketch to Finished Painting
My painting process starts with some sketches to consider my composition, study my subject and refine my ideas about what I want to express. “Strand at Sunset, Dunmore East” focuses on the drama of the warm evening light on the cliff face, the deep shadow patterns, and the directional force of the tide pools and banks of seaweed, drawing the eye into the distance. The light is changing fast, so I start with a reference photo A quick sketch in pen and ink allows me to study the rock strata and the shapes of the seaweed masses And a “notan”…
Travel Sketching in Dubrovnik
Wonderful week with our group of artists in April, sketching and painting the historic city of Dubrovnik and the beautiful Adriatic coast of Croatia. We had joined the Travel Department “Discover Dubrovnik” tour, staying in the lovely Valamar Tirena Hotel outside the city by the sea. This was our perfect base, quiet and peaceful, yet a very short distance by bus from the Old Town. April weather was cool and sunny, and we enjoyed strolling and sketching the city before the Summer crowds arrived. Our local guide Suzanna brought the group on a guided walking tour of the Old Town…
My Workshop Checklist
Starting to gather my materials for my upcoming oil painting workshop “Coast” in Artform, Dunmore East. We will be painting outdoors as well as in the studio, so I will bring supplies for both. A full materials list is provided below. This is my Plein Air Oil Painting kit – – box easel (half size) – box of painting supplies – small backpack – This allows me to carry the easel in one hand, the box in the other, with extra sundries in the backpack, so the weight is spread evenly. Contents of art box – brushes, palette knife, tubes…
My 3 Step Sketching Process
3 simple steps to sketching
Winter Sea
Winter has arrived on the Côte d’Azur. Grey skies and a damp chill in the air. For the first time this year I’ve moved my easel indoors from the terrace to the comfort of a warm room, music playing, mugs of ginger tea on hand and mince pies in the oven. My painting matches the mood of the season, a muted palette of soft grey tones. A few strokes of oil pastel on the surface of the acrylic painting enliven the distant glitter on the sea, the sunlit edge of the cloud, the golden light of the cresting wave. A…
Cill Rialaig Artist Residency
Cill Rialaig Artist Retreat, a restored famine village on the edge of the Atlantic in Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry offers a unique environment for artists in search of peace, space and solitude. Time spent at Cill Rialaig is truly a “time apart”. The rush and distraction of daily life falls away, to be replaced by a gentle immersion in light, space and peace. Here I lift my eyes to a limitless sky, the ocean stretches to an infinite horizon, and the ever changing weather moves in from the sea bringing rain and sun and the full spectrum of light and mood,…
Seasons of the Sea
Seasons of the Sea, solo exhibition, Leinster Gallery Dublin 2008 Images and artist introduction from exhibition catalogue: There is a special energy present where the dual forces of land and sea collide. The ocean unleashes it’s most dynamic power against the resistance of rock and earth. This meeting point has always held a profound resonance for me and has led me for a long time to seek out the freedom and solitude of wild places. I have found particular inspiration for my work in the remoteness and raw beauty of the wild Atlantic seaboard of the west of Ireland. The subject…
Painting the Gorges du Loup
After torrential rainstorms on Tuesday, today is bright and clear, and the roads open after flooding and fallen trees. The river at Gorges du Loup is a swollen torrent of rushing foam. I’m the only person there, drenched in the spray. This is my favourite subject to paint, the crash and clash of water on rock, fluid motion meeting solid mass. At home I start a quick study in acrylic, wanting to catch some of the energy and drama of the original scene. My first marks are a simple outline of the main shapes, focusing on the dynamic pattern of…
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