I promised you a video on how to mix your own greys, sadly my camera has decided it no longer wants to record video and so I am having to resort to still images! Hopefully my descriptions and images will be enough, but feel free to ask me any questions if they are not! SoContinue reading “Mixing greys in acrylic”
Category Archives: Paintings
Workshop 2
Remember in a previous post I mentioned a workshop where we had to mix our own greys? Well this is the result of said workshop. We had to do this with a pallet knife, which is fine when you’re just blocking in rectangular shapes but not so easy when you are trying to paint objectsContinue reading “Workshop 2”
Workshop 1
Every week, on my painting module, we have a two hour workshop. Sometimes it is a practical session where our tutor attempts to teach us something! These sessions are not about producing a finished painting, which is a good thing because I never managed to complete anything in the two hours! This particular workshop wasContinue reading “Workshop 1”
Studies in tonal greys.
After my success with the masking tape I decided to do some further studies in grey. I wanted to concentrate on the forms and tones rather than obsessing over my colour mixing skills (they need some work!). I mixed my own greys as this can give an added dimension to your paintings. I willContinue reading “Studies in tonal greys.”
Getting out of my comfort zone.
Up until I started at university I had barely touched a pallet knife, except when I wanted to create texture. But I’m a control freak when it comes to my paintings, I obsess over detail. That’s fine if you’ve got all the time in the world to finish a painting, but in uni, you don’tContinue reading “Getting out of my comfort zone.”
Previous still lifes.
Work I did while gaining my Certificate of Higher Education.
Tracy J Hughes Art 