ARTSITECAROLYN - ARTSITECAROLYN PAINTING BLOG TRIPS BY CAROLYN LAMB

Discerning Eye drawings

10/5/2021

In the Garden Of Eden .C. Lamb 2019. Inktense pencil (No water)

In the past nude studies would have been used for grand compositions. And Life drawing has been seen as essential training for artists. While a few current artists specialise in nudes as a subject ( e.g. Lucien Freud, Jenny Saville etc) the majority of life drawing stays unwanted in sketchbooks. I wanted to do something further with my life drawings than just filling up numerous sketchbooks to keep my drawing skills honed. The development of these drawings took place over a year starting with various life models and then plants and animals sketched at Bristol Zoo. The subject of Adam and Eve was suggested by my friend Tim. Both Eden and apple were shown for the first time on the 2021 BS9 Art trail.

Adam and Eve: Decisions. C.Lamb. 2019. Inktense pencil and water.

The Tree of Knowledge. C.Lamb 2019. Inktense pencil and water. The gnarled Midland Hawthorn at the Zoo was a perfect model for the tree of knowledge in all 3 sketches.

BS9 Art Trail 2021 Stoke Lodge

9/3/2021

And this is the final result - my space set up for tomorrows opening. We are open from 11-5pm on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th September 2021.

Car is packed with paintings and setting up gear for the trip to Stoke Lodge

This is my spot in Room 1. Eventually there will be 5 artists in this room and 65 altogether at the various trail venues.

More Scottish scenes

8/21/2021

Sheds, Hatton of Fintray. C.Lamb. June 2021. Watercolour.

C.Lamb.Oil . 8x8" Old Hatton of Fintray Kirk

Dunalister estate Oils

8/21/2021

Two oils from our Perthshire holiday near Kinloch Rannoch. A bit bigger than my usual size at 16"x12". Boats on Dunalister water looking towards Schiehallion, and Trees on the Dunalister estate.

Clifton Arts CLub 111th Open exhibition

7/28/2021

All four of my submissions have been selected for the 111 th Open Exhibition of Clifton Arts. Runs from 31st July to 15th August at the Undercroft, Victoria Methodist Church, Whiteladies Road, Bristol. Here framed are Shepherds Hut, Wrington, 2020, and Upper Tullochgrue Farm, Rothiemurchas, 2019. I usually like to leave my oils at least a year before framing and exhibiting so they have properly dried.

Also selected are Woodside Cottage, New Forest, 2019 and Sheep pen, Brockley Elm farm, 2020.

Polytunnels at Pencoed

6/15/2021

Hottest day of the year so far on Sunday and I was painting with fellow artist Rachel at Pencoed Growers near Bridgend. Sheltered by a hedge for this 16 x12" oil painting. We haven't painted here since 2013.

Pencoed Polytunnels. C Lamb Oil.

Here are the two older oil paintings -Dogwood at Pencoed Growers from March 2012. Oil. 8x8".

Water tank from the Polytunnels , Pencoed Growers 8th and 21st March 2013. I remember it was freezing. Oil. 8x8".

Ashton COurt and Shirehampton park

6/9/2021

Magnolia Trees at Ashton Court. C.Lamb. Watercolour . 12th May 21

Roe deer at Crabtree slip. 29 May 21. I was doing a quick sketch of the River Avon from Shirehampton Park when I was amazed to see a deer run into the clearing.

Challenge 61: Still life of lost items, 62 : Portrait of Olivia

6/9/2021

Lost painting at the roadside. Pitt pen. 19 May 21. In 2018 I left my painting of the pool at Serridge House on the car roof by accident so it was lost somewhere between Coalpit Heath and the M 32. I'm still thinking over challenge 60 -In the gallery

Challenge 62 : Portrait of Olivia. Acrylic 22nd May 21. This one hour sketch was done from the model live on Zoom.

Challenge 59: Black PriMing

5/13/2021

Towards Nash Point -The Glamorgan Heritage coastline. C.Lamb. Oil .5 May 21. 8x8". Welsh artist Huw Richards Evans gave us an interesting demo on Zoom of his technique painting on a black priming to start. This weeks challenge was to paint a Pembrokeshire seascape on a black priming. www.huwrichardsevans.com

I haven't been to Pembrokeshire for many years, but I used to visit a friend at Southerndown so I used an old sketch of the wonderful cliffs of the Glamorgan Heritage Coastline for my inspiration.

TOwards NAsh point from Dunraven, Glamorgan. 2007. Watercolour.

Ammendment to challenges.... I missed out no 32 : Card competition !

5/13/2021

Autumn Clour, Sneed Lodge, Old Sneed Park. C. Lamb. 24 Oct 2020. Watercolour. 8x8". Making a list of all the challenges to decide which to enter into the exhibition I discovered I have missed out no 32 so subsequent challenges are wrongly numbered. That one was to enter a work into the Club card competition. I am painting the thatched cottage from the car on the opposite side of the road to the Postbox oil.

Challenge 57: Something to do with LEtters or Post

5/13/2021

Looking for the post box from Old Sneed Park . C. Lamb 27 April 2021. Oil. 9x12" or 229mm x 305mm.

Findhorn Sunset at INside Out exhibition 17-29 May 21

5/13/2021

At last- The first exhibition taking place since last March. 50 of the club artists are exhibiting. You had to have done 3 or more challenges over the last 14 months to enter. I have done all but 3 of them.

Limited Palette CHeddar GOrge

5/1/2021

Cheddar Gorge. Oil. 16th April 2021. 16" X 12"- Larger than normal. The first chance to go to my favourite place to paint was once stay at home restrictions were lifted on 12th April. It was going to be my limited palette vegetation painting but I couldn't get the lids off some of the requested colour tubes. Plus not much vegetation Although the sun shone it was a nippy wind so I did this from the car.

Challenge 55: Charcoal with the wrong hand , 56: Limited palette

5/1/2021

Left hand garden. C Lamb. April 21. Wax crayons. This challenge was to draw with the wrong hand using charcoal or other blacks.

Bursting buds. C Lamb. Oil April 2021. This challenge was to paint vegetation using a limited 5 colour palette of Black or Paynes grey, blue, yellow, (but not mixing blue and yellow), burnt siena or red, white.

CHallenge 54: Big Skys

4/18/2021

Garden Clouds. C. Lamb. 6th April 2021. Oil paint. After the Art club demo/ paint-along the previous week we were given the subject of Clouds for Challenge 54. Weather had gone too cold to sit out so did this through the window. I use Artisan Oil normally as it is water miscible so uses water to clean up not solvent, but for these I was using tradition Artist Oils so I used Seymour Coco-Bello paint diluent which is low odour.

Clouds. C.Lamb. Oil. 27th March 2021. This is my painting from a demo on Clouds by Bristol Landscape artist Tom Hughes. So great to have an artist who pays attention to clouds. See more of his excellent work on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tomhughespaintings/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/hughespaintings Instagram - www.instagram.com/tomhughespainting

Battery Point and the Severn from Portishead . C. Lamb . Watercolour. 31st March 2021. Trying to use white wax crayon to draw pale clouds rather than masking fluid but hard to see what you did so they are a bit schematic and often in the wrong place. Still it was an enjoyable sunny day and warm in the shelter of a hedge.