‘Canalscapes 6’. Mixed media on 11×12″ wood panel
Today’s painting of canalscapes in Gloucestershire.
The series so far can be viewed in ‘gallery’ in the menu above
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Canalscapes and Severn (in progress) 6
‘Severn 4’. Mixed media on 14×11″ wood panel
‘Severn 2’. Mixed media on 14×11″ wood panel
‘Severn 3’. Mixed media on 14×11″ wood panel
Today’s painting of the Severn – a bit more abstract. Also more work on Severn 2 and 3, which seems to suit a more abstract approach. The views in real life are very simple in a way – huge skies, long bands of land in subtle colours, but it’s the feeling of distance and atmosphere that’s hard to capture in a painting so I’m experimenting with atmospheric effects with scattered pigment and salt, rather than the usual graduated fading into distance which can look predictable or tedious, since we’re so used to seeing that in paintings. In ‘Severn 4’ I’ve scraped back to the wood which has a nice sand tone.
Canalscapes and Severn (series in progress) 5
Today’s painting of the Severn. I’ll probably add some detailed impasto highlights to the grass tomorrow, though I’ll keep the rough feel.
I’m painting the series in twos really, so there will be another painting of rough grasses in the foreground against bands of sand, mud and water, also another painting of the Severn at twilight.
Canals (series in progress) 4
‘Canalscapes 4’. Acrylic on 14×11″ wood panel
Today’s painting from the Canalscapes and Severn series in progress.
Series so far..
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- Sold. ‘Canalscapes 1’. Acrylic on 14×11″ wood panel . Rose Strang 2017
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- Sold. ‘Canalscapes 2’. Acrylic on 14×11″ wood panel. Rose Strang 2017
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- Sold. ‘Canalscapes 3’. Acrylic on 14×11″ wood panel. Rose Strang 2017
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- £400 ‘Canalscapes 4 ‘. Acrylic on 14×11″ wood panel
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- Sold. ‘Canalscapes 5’. Acrylic on 14×12″ wood panel. Rose Strang 2017
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- Sold. ‘Severn 1’. Acrylic on 14×11″ wood panel. Roe Strang 2017
Available Prints
The following prints of my paintings are available as limited editions at the Saatchi Gallery Online. You can buy them – Here
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- Sold. ‘East – Harbour’. Mixed media on 40×40″ redwood panel.
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- Sold. ‘Waves in the Rain, Singing Sands Bay’. Acrylic and ink on 40×30″ canvas. Rose Strang 2014
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- Sold. ‘Wave, Singing Sands Bay’. Acrylic on 20×16″ canvas. Rose Strang 2014
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- Sold. ‘Leaving Ullapool 2’. Mixed media on 5×5″ wood. Rose Strang 2016
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- ‘Harris Sea Loch 2’. Mixed media on 10×10″ wood
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- Sold. ‘Harris (Sea Loch 3)’ Mixed media on 10×10″ wood. Rose Strang 2016
Canals (series in progress) 3
Today’s paintings in progress, photos taken in fading light so a bit blurry! The boat needs to be re-painted
Also, paintings so far just to get a feel for how the series is shaping…
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- ‘Canal 2’. Acrylic on 14×12″ wood panel.
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- Sold. ‘Canalscapes 5’. Acrylic on 14×12″ wood panel. Rose Strang 2017
Canals (series in progress) 2
‘Canal 3’. Acrylic on 14×12″ wood panel
‘Canal 2’. Acrylic on 14×12″ wood panel.
‘Severn 1’. Acrylic on 14×12″ wood panel.
Today’s paintings – buildings and boats along the canal, less abstract, also more work on Canal 1, Canal 2 and Severn 1
Severn and Canals (series in progress)
Above – today’s paintings in progress from a new series following a recent trip to Gloucestershire. The first two showing canals and the darker one of the Severn in twilight, which needs quite a lot more work.
This will be a series of 12 paintings on 14×12″ panels, quite a nice size to work on though it feels small after the Damascus paintings. I got in touch with a few galleries in nearby Bristol who’re interested in my work so this should lead to an exhibition some time this year I hope!
The Severn was a strange experience, we actually walked out on to the sand which as it turns out was quite foolhardy; the apparently solid sand bars can suddenly shift beneath you to the mud beneath, though I think the danger is more to do with the fact it’s a tidal river which comes in suddenly, which could leave you surrounded by water (as once happened when I was a kid, returning from Crammond Island near Edinburgh). Apparently if you’re sinking into mud you shouldn’t struggle but instead get horizontal to disperse weight, then crawl for your life!
The third wood panel for my Damascus Rose series has arrived so I’ll be completing the third painting soon, more posts on that coming up…
In the meantime, my sale of limited edition prints from the east coast Harbours series began today on Achica – Link Here
Damascus Rose 1 & 2
Rosa Damascena. Acrylic on 36×36″ wood panel
Above – ‘Damascus Rose 1’ – inspired by Syrian tile designs, and the history of Rosa Damascena – the rose produced in Syria which is developed into rose absolute (currently not in production due to the war in Syria). And ‘Damascus Rose 2’ – loosely based on a map of Damascus from above.
Some details below..
Bitumen-like texture – salt and black paint
Side view (paint still wet in this one)
Palettes
Today’s painting of a loch in Coigach near Achiltibuie in the North West of Scotland. (I was visiting friends there before the trip to the Hebrides with poet Louise Palfreyman).
Also (below) the base for ‘Damascus Rose 2’, next in the series of three. I’ll be blocking out lines to reflect a map of Damascus, then overlaying with textured black and removing the blocking to reveal these tones underneath, though I can see other possibilities in this, and see the vague figures of a horse and two figures crossing a plain in sunset, but I’ll stick to the plan hopefully –
The highly textured look of the Achiltibuie landscape at the top of this post is due to using my palette as the base – something I do quite often since I usually paint on wood, so I’ll use a spare wood panel as a palette, then if it starts to look interesting I’ll work on bringing out a painting from it. Here’s another one I did last year which remained semi abstract…
‘East Coast’. Mixed media on 10×10″ wood panel
And two photos of my palettes from today …
Someone posted a link to ‘famous artist’s paint palettes’ on facebook the other day – (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/05/paint-palette-portraits-matthias-schaller/ ) so I amused myself by trying to guess which artist each palette belonged to, here they are, have a guess! (artist’s names below the images at the end of this post) …
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- Cy Twombly
- Edgar Degas
- Francis Bacon
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