Mysterious Painting – Deep Dark Lock.
Cathy Read’s Deep Dark Lock is a mysterious painting. This intriguing lock leads off the River Irwell but where’s the canal?
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Contemporary Art
Everyday Drama in an Urban Painting
Speeding through the City Street. An ambulance on an emergency run dominates this urban painting. The bright yellow and blue vehicle hurtles past, on the opposite carriageway, heading to a shout. Its yellow paintwork reflecting on the surrounding walls. Although it doesn’t seem to hurry at all, does it? Frozen in time, it’s ever on
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Impressions of Westminster Bridge
Cathy Read’s painting, ‘Westminster Bridge – Impressions of Westminster’ had a working title of ‘Westminster Bridge’: descriptive, safe, and boring. Although dissatisfied with it, nothing better came to Cathy’s mind. But as she meditated on the painting more deeply, ‘Impressions of Westminster’ came to her. A suitable name when considering one of London’s more contentious
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Contemporary Artist Talk London Brolly
This Week for Saturday Night Live Art Shows, I’m sharing my painting London Brolly. There’s also a little tour of the studio. And so you can have a little look, here’s a still image of the painting.
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Creating a painting Harlequin Gherkin
Add Your Heading Text Here The first video where the whole process of creating a painting is included. There’s a mix of time lapse and real time video and some still photography. https://youtu.be/6Z7VIRJYdfY Here’s the full image, of the completed painting Harlequin Gherkin – Cathy Read ©2020 – Watercolour and Acrylic Ink – 76 x
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Abandoned bike painting – Who Left it?
On a trip to London, we were travelling around in a taxi when I saw this bicycle chained up against the railings. It inspired my abandoned bike painting called Neglected. Its saddle was lost, with a flat tyre and rust covered it. It’s not my first cycle painting and will probably not be my last.
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Painting Creation Time Lapse Of Charing Cross Station
Charing Cross Station is the subject of this painting creation time lapse video. It shows the evolution from white page with yellowed masking to full colour picture of a London street. Whilst the video shows that the lost transient stages are just as interesting as the finished art. The goal is always the completed original
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Giddy Perspectives – London painting in Progress
Presenting a London painting in Progress titled Lloyds…Fill in the Blanks one of my latest paintings created this year. My video creation has been challenging lately, the app I was using started gliching , so I tried a different one and am finding the challanges of the new app frustrating in different ways. To be
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Painting King’s Cross – the Pink Side
Painting King’s Cross the pink side forced me to do something I thought I never would. In my box of watercolour paint tubes I have a colour that I had never used until this painting. A bright fluorescent pink called Opera. How do you create such colour? I was sure I’d never use it. Ever.
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