'Winter' Acrylic series

'Winter' Original Art cards and Framed Pictures

My husband always refers to my art as 'neat & tidy'. I know it's not a compliment, although (to be fair), it's not a criticism either. It's his honest observation, I do feel a need to be neat. This often manifests itself in a fineliner of some description being used to outline watercolour (or acrylic) flowers for example. Because I am aware of this 'abstract acrylics' do have a permanent place on my to-do list. This past week I have ticked this off and, much to my delight, I'm quite pleased with the results.

Working on Daler Rowney 190gsm Acrylic paper, I used a mixture of soft body acrylics applied with palette knives and brushes, an acrylic pen and my lovely ArtGraf Viarco Taylor shape in white to add the highlights. I felt something was missing so I added stamped flowers and/or shapes as the finishing touch. For future series I am hoping to carve my own stamps to use. And yes, I did say future series because I enjoyed this so much that there will be more.

Winter Waves

Winter Hills

The set is of eight paintings, two of which I have framed as a matching pair. The remaining six have been made into blank greetings cards but sized so that they can be easily framed by the recipient. All are available for sale. They are currently on show/for sale at the wonderful 'Walkmill @No7' If you are interested in purchasing any please get in touch, either with Helen at Walkmill or directly with myself via the contact form on the right of this page.

The framed paintings are priced at £8.50 and the cards at £3.50 plus any postage and packaging that may be required.

Thank you for reading, please feel free to leave me a comment.

Wendy x

Comments

Anonymous said…

Lovely to see all your wonderful hard work on line!

24 January 2023 at 19:59

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