Castlefields Basin Wordless Wednesday
Castlefields Basin is one of my Manchester Series, You can see more in my portfolio.
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Meditating on the Poppy – A National Memorial Painting
Looking at my National Memorial Painting I cannot help a meditating on the poppy. The first thing that you notice it’s red. An atmospheric swathe of textured red fills less than half the image. Red for poppies representing red for blood. 10,000 ceramic poppies were placed in and around the Tower of London in 2014
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Painting Creation – Irwell Reflections
This weeks painting creation begins with the graphite image, and you can just make out the masking has begun in ernest. Irwell Reflections – ©2019 – Cathy Read – graphite and masking fluid And now for a spot of colour, shaped by cling film. Irwell Reflections – ©2019 – Cathy Read – Watercolour aand cling
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Welsh Ayr Painting Meditations
Welsh Ayr Painting Summing up a nation with a single image is always a challenge. To me Wales, counjours up castles, songs and a love for home, albeit more of a home from home for me. That’s what the Welsh Ayr painting is about. Caernarfon Castle dominates with the tower on the right hand side
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Blue Spire of St James’s Painting in Progress
So, this weeks work in progress is an alley leading to St James’s on Piccadilly. First we have the masked image. It’s a bit faint but you can make out the spire in the centre and the rows of buildings leading to it. Here’s the colour coming into play, and the shape of the spire
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