Painting: Music is an art but......

[Curalach]

Here Sal - http://www.troovi.com/9TstZcYWGqyV

[salymap]

Curalach to the rescue again. Many thanks.

[amateur51]

I really like the Rain on Glass picture - it's very atmospheric!
Iain

Agreed Curalach .... and I liked the big rolling waves in France too, Chris.

Triffic!

[salymap]

Chris, Ilike the wet window pic too but your best wet weather painting is the Trafalgar Square one which is truly atmospheric IMHO.

[salymap]

As we now know Hornspieler has closed his troovi site. However I am patiently waiting for the first sight of Chris Newman's new painting, a shop in Cecil Court, I believe. My lunch-time hunting ground when I last worked in London, full of theatres and little shops in Victorian side roads.

[Chris Newman]

salymap, I will try to get the Cecil Court painting photographed tomorrow and put on my troovi site. It is of several shops in a late evening light with people hurrying in the rain. I am rather busy redecorating my house ATM as it is much too tiny to cope with my paintings and I want to move to something bigger. I cannot continue using the living room as a studio so a lot of household paint is flying at the moment rather than acrylics.

[Chris Newman]

Ooh, Sorry. I still have not posted the Cecil Court pic. I am about a third of the way through redecorating the house.

[salymap]

Chris, for goodness sake, I won't say another word. The house must come first of course.

Erm, I resign as your promotion manageress [or summit]. Bet you are glad! saly x

[Chris Newman]

As a break from painting walls I have tried my hand at water-based oil painting to make a change from acrylics. I have done a view of Salisbury Cathedral from the Harnham Water Meadows. In a couple of weeks I hope to join local artists in making paintings as a tribute to John Constable in Salisbury, subject of a super new exhibition at Salisbury Museum and thought I might try oils.

I am quite pleased with my first attempt and I understood that water-based oil is quick drying (rather like slow drying acrylic was how someone described it). After two days it is still very tacky. How long should I be patient for?

[Curalach]

I have no experience of water based oils Chris but here is some info on drying times from the Winsor & Newton site.http://www.winsornewton.com/products...ur/#dryingtime

[Chris Newman]

Thanks, Curalach.
It obviously takes longer to dry than I thought. patience is a ....
bws
Chis.

[Chris Newman]

salymap, Curalach and friends. At last I have caught a sunny day to put some recent pictures on my site:

http://www.troovi.com/4T6IzepwP3SB

[Curalach]

Good stuff Chris. How did you get Tom to lie on his side to get his portrait painted?!!
I've not been able to do much this year as my wife is poorly.
Iain

[Chris Newman]

Hi Iain,
I am so sorry to hear that your wife is unwell and hope she recovers quickly. I must put those two "sideways" pictures on again the right way up (or down). Thank you for the earlier advice about the oils. I found a quick drying agent but it makes everything go very glossy and transparent: it's great for water painting though. Patience is the thing.

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Chris.

[eighthobstruction]

Some very nice work there Chris - I could not paint to save my life but my partner Fiona is a painter and printmaker and I attach a link to her website here. I do often have a very important contribution to make to her work however. My job is to throw a pebble into the water to get the ripples that create the distorted images in many of her paintings!

http://www.fiona23.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/2.html

I notice Fiona has a exhibition at South Square [I will probably be going to the opening]; starting Friday 03.2.11 {psst, and I might be having one in June}....