Margaret Shaw - Artwork - My Blog

November - the month of the mushrooms.

Finished after a tree incident along the way.  See the Work in Progress.

During todays exercise.

I’ve been learning how to make my pictures into a video and amend it.  I practiced with my favourite pictures from 2019.  Soon to be replaced by 2020.

All on this mornings walk along the viaduct, Kirkby Stephen.

Had the coloured pencils out this weekend to do sketches for a couple of new paintings.  I find the pencils help with the colour choices and I start to think about brushstrokes on the finished piece.

After several colour changes the Autumn Pictish Spirals are finised.  You can see why the colours changes on the Work in Progress Pages.

Encountered on todays lockdown exercise.

The photo of yesterdays walk was fungi.  Here’s a few that photographed successfully.

Day 2 of lockdown and stunning skies on my Kirkby Stephen, Nateby, Wharton Hall Circular.

Some beautiful sunshine in my home town ( Kirkby Stephen ) as lockdown starts.

As we enter our 2nd lockdown I took the camera on todays exercise and was pleasantly surprised to find some November flowers still in bloom.

More colour and removal of bright yellow has led to portrait way up decision.

I started a larger version of my Pictish Spirals - this time in acrylics with reds, siennas, oranges, yellows and ochres   I was going to have some browns in there but they didn’t work so overpainted with a crimson/brown mix.  My quandary right now is which way up?

The Gouache rescue mission worked and my Pictish Spiral Panel is complete and in the abstract gallery.  Work in Progress with the transfer from watercolour to gouache here.