Crow-stepped gable

12/10/2021

Newnham Street (3) - this morning, catching the sunlight just before noon.

I got annoyed with myself dithering with a pencil, so I splashed on too much black and grey and spent an hour trying to rectify my impetuousness. I used mainly black, vermilion and ultramarine blue. I tried to tidy up the wonky drawing with black ink and a bit of Chinese white. Hm.

It seems I forget quicker than I learn. Doh!

Nonetheless, while I was sat next to a sunny wall - where Peacock's auction used to be - I was commissioned to do another painting. And when I got home, I found an email asking to buy another of my Alphasketch series. That's three sold so far (F, R & S) =£150 more for the homeless. Not the worst criterion, perhaps.

3 Comments

Amanda

12/10/2021 04:29:12

I like it a lot. Love the stepped gable and the shadow on the white wall.

Simon

12/10/2021 15:48:42

Thank you, Amanda, for your reassuring words. I am very aware of what a far better artist said about - ' the tension between constraints of discipline and painterly looseness'. As an eager novice I would have misinterpreted this as permission to be carelessly flamboyant - but I've come to realise that despite arduous, conscious effort, I have to learn also to surrender to the leadings of the medium - and to respect instincts that are hard to articulate. It seems this painting thing is only partly a reasonable pursuit.

Martin

7/11/2021 17:43:53

This one stood out for me too. The contrast of the plain rendered white wall with the fancy gabled and mullioned wall sparks interest.

Crow-stepped gable

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