ARTSITECAROLYN PAINTING BLOG TRIPS BY CAROLYN LAMB - ARTSITECAROLYN

Finnish summer Landscapes R.W.A.

7/12/2020

Session 1: My Copy of Lake Keitele by Finnish Artist Gallen-Kalleila. Oil. 9x12"

Session 2: November sunset, Findhorn Bay. Carolyn Lamb. Oil. 10x12 ins.4 July 2020

I was lucky to get a free place on the Royal West of England Academy Zoom workshop run by Catherine Knight. The topic was Finnish Summer landscapes. First week we copied a landscape from a selection of Finnish artists. . I have always loved this oil by Gallen-Kalleila since first seeing it in the National Gallery, London. They bought it in 1999. Second week we did an oil from our own images. I had painted Findhorn Bay in November (outdoors at 5.C) but still had images of amazing sunsets I wanted to paint. I don't paint from photos normally but we are still in lockdown.

Stuck at Home Challenge 16: Animals in action.

7/6/2020

Poppy and Holly in action and inaction. C Lamb. 6 july 20. Pitt pen. Various poses as they moved round the cage. Also got them to stand up to reach grass on the top of their tunnel.The wild rosette hair swirls of Abyssinian guinea pigs makes their shapes hard to draw.

Stuck at Home Challenge 15: Book Cover : 1984

7/6/2020

1984/2020. C Lamb. 1 July 2020.Watercolour. This weeks challenge was to design a book cover. There are some disturbing similarities between this book and what's happening in 2020.

Sky Portrait Artist of the Week : Mary Beard

7/1/2020

Mary Beard. Carolyn Lamb. Pencil. 21st June 2020. This was the last of the weekly Sky Portrait Artist of the Week sessions on Facebook. Our model is a Professor of Classics at Cambridge and it was interesting to hear her thoughts on Ancient Roman art and artists.

Stuck At Home 14 : RIght tone wrong colour

6/26/2020

Reverse Amarylis. C Lamb. 24 Jun 20. Watercolour. I did 2 versions. This one with the colours the wrong way round.

Red Amarylis. C. Lamb. 26 Jun 20 . Watercolour. This is how I would normally paint.

Stuck at Home 13: Pots and Kitchen paraphenalia

6/17/2020

Red Cutlery. Carolyn Lamb 17 June 2020. watercolour pencils. My pots and pans are not interesting enough so i did my red cutlery on the red formica table.

Sky Portrait Artist of the Week: Professor Green

6/15/2020

Rapper Professor Green - Stephen Manderson. Carolyn Lamb. Pencil. 14 Jun 2020. Stephen was being painted live online by Tom Mead and viewers could watch them chatting and Tom's portrait evolve, plus do one's own version. This is my sketch from my first Facebook Live portrait painting session via Sky TV's Portrait Artist of the Week show. There is also a tiny sketch of Tai-Shan Schierenberg when he appeared on screen for a few moments.

Stuck at Home 12: Classical Greek Sculpture

6/10/2020

Greek disco on Paxos, circa 350 - 300 B.C. C. Lamb. 8 Jun 2020. Pencil and watercolour.

This weeks Stuck at Home challenge was to take a Classical Greek, Roman or Egyptian statue and set it in time and place. So using Classical Sculpture by George Hanfmann, London,1967 I found two Greek bronzes which could be fitted together as dancers at an outdoor disco. The background is from Monodendri beach, Paxos. Praying Boy, Greece, c 300 B.C. Staatcliches Museum, Berlin and Fleeing Girl, 350.B.C. Museo Archaeologico, Florence.

Poppies and Irises

6/10/2020

Poppies and Irises. C.Lamb. May 2020. Oil on canvas. 10 x 12 ". Again painted on a yellow ground, but this time there are some flag irises and ox-eye daisies.

Stuck at Home 11: portrait of the artist as a Young woman

6/6/2020

Portrait of Young woman artists shoes. C Lamb. 2 June 2020. Pitt pen. I think we were meant to do something from old photos but as I don't paint from photos I did a portrait of my favourite shoes from the time. These had to be 'broken in' so rarely used, and kept in the hope they would fit one day.

Favourite flowers

5/29/2020

Three poppies. C Lamb. May 2020. Oil on board. 12x10". Only three heads this year on my scarlet oriental poppy which I've painted against a plain yellow background.

Stuck at Home 10 : impressionist

5/29/2020

Poplars on the Trym. C Lamb . 26 May 2020. Pitt pen, 6x4". This weeks challenge was to do something in the style of or use subject matter of an Impressionist. Poplar trees were a frequent subject for Monet so I sketched these along the River Trym at Sea Mills during my (not daily) walk.

Stuck at Home 9: You need Hands

5/23/2020

Feeding the guinea pigs. C Lamb. Pitt pen. 18 May 2020. This weeks challenge was something with hands, so you have my one hand and the guinea pigs hands. Like many animals they need their nails trimmed but this is everyones least favourite task and I have yet to brave this struggle.

Flag Irises

5/16/2020

Flag Irises. C Lamb. May 2020. Oil. 12x16". I guess there will be a lot of paintings of our pond this year as outdoor trips are cancelled or not advisable.

Stuck AT HOME CHALLENGE 8 : Unusual Support

5/11/2020

Red Chestnut blossom. C Lamb. 11 May 2020. Micron Brush pens on Poplar Bark. This weeks challenge was to paint with a medium or support you had never used before. While walking by the river I found bits of bark from a felled poplar tree. The inside is reasonably smooth so I thought it a good support for an ink drawing. Wind had also blown the blossom off the chestnut tree and this acted as my model. Poplar planks were the support used by Italian Early Renaissance painters but bark would have been used for kindling.