I'm off to paint outside!

I went down to the ocean and made my way around the cliffs to make a little skietch on a small canvas board...well that was the other day and now I'm going back to see if my spot still looks amazing in midday sun as it does at 8:00pm Tasmanian time (dusk)
the spot is obviously quite steep so i'll have to be really careful as I still dont have my paintbox easel...just a tabletop easel!

I'm going to take a camera just to get shots of the process but I don't want to work on this pinting back in the studio..I just want to try and get something right away.

I'll post my painting this afternoon if I can....even if it doesnt't work out so well..


Allison

Commisions Available - Oil Portraits

I will be available for portrait commissions soon, if you would like to find out more please contact me at allison-lowe@hotmail.com and I will answer any questions.


Regards,

Allison Lowe

p.s here are some smaller examples of my work

Free Sketch

Sometimes the most frustrating thing can be compositions that are impossible for me to construct right now...I love my ideas when the only certain element is a line at a certain angle (swooping in from both top corners of the canvas) and the colour deep plum red.


Allison.

part of an idea for a painting

I;ve got something I'd like to work on but I don't know if it will work really well...or if it will just be an ok painting.

i think it would be beautiful if all the elements aligned and there was an explosion of intense colour and movement and if the colour was enhancing a female form...it would be an alive painting. I think I need to have this idea come to fruition otherwise it'll bug me.


Allison.

WIP Night Painting

more progress on this painting! I'm really enjoying this. I've still got so much to learn about subtle shifts in colours and trying to view the image as a whole.


Allison.

p.s photographing a black painting at mid day is really hard sorry.

Rich Colour

I have just discovered my copy of a little book containing work by Degas.

I feel like I understand him more now that I have completely fallen in love with colour.

I especially love women dressing...those rich, intense, savage oranges and reds teamed with soft warm linen whites and dark raw umbers.

I don't know i even painted before as I was so afraid of colour! It now makes me delirious...especially when I catch a bright colour in the corner of my eye..it is an amazing feeling...

Allison.

p.s I think I will try colour studies before i even put pen to paper and draw design sketches.

more progress

progress on night time painting

well the first image is the colour I ended up toning the canvas with.

I have just started laying in the dark masses and i'm still trying to get the subtle coloursín the dark masses just right. It is quite strange starting a canvas with so little light-source...it does however draw my attention to the angles which I enjoy thinking about a lot.

so far so good.


Allison

toning a canvas for nightscape painting?

I wasn't 100% certain what was the best colour to tone my canvas for my new nighttime painting...so I ended up going with a deep warm colour. a warm purple-blue-red

it was a mixture of Utramarine Blue and Permanent Rose(a colour I hardly use usually) and a little bit of Idian Red...only a little bit of Indian Red as that stuff is so strong! I used up a lot of oils on toning the ground of the canvas...working into the tooth of the canvas thoroughly..so much so that I will have to take a trip to my art shop soon and stock up on oils.

I know that toning the canvas first will save me a lot of tonal issues later on so it was imortant to get the right colour and I still don't know if it will work out...who knows! painting at night is new for me....new and exciting.

Allison.

preliminary sketch for new painting.

There really was very little point in sketching this before I paint it because I intend to paint this scene at night as it is ridiculously ugly during the day...I guess I like that transformation. There's plenty of angles in this new painting. I ran out of paper at the top and sides to get the rest of the composition down.


What I SHOULD be doing is a night-time colour sketch...


I intend to add a figure to this painting as well but a very unlit one, just the slightest hing of blue shadowy figure standing looking out at the viewer...the canvas I have lined up for this painting is 30" x 30" so hopefully it will be visually stimulating.