Art Auction - Growing Wild

GROWING WILD

by Marion Hedger

30x40cm on watercolour paper

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This painting is from my 'Loose and Free' series of acrylic paintings on paper. I don't often use pink as it is out of my comfort zone but it works well in Growing Wild and hints at daring.

The paper has been gessoed and varnished, so can be frame without glass.

Starting price US$110 with a buy it now option of US$200 a saving of $50 on the normal price. Ends 6pm CST

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Auction of Golden Days

GOLDEN DAYS

by Marion Hedger

Acrylic on Paper

Currently in Auction

I've recently put my Etsy shop on hold. I haven't been doing much with it just lately so instead of just letting it die a natural death as items came up for a renewal. I will reassess this sometime in March.

In the meantime I have rejoined Daily Paintworks as it is a site just dedicated to art so more relevant to an artist than Etsy. There is a fee of US$12.95 a month which will hopefully be covered by sales.
Take a look and if you think Daily Paintworks might suit you, the first month is free.

To kick-start my new involvement I have put one of my paintings up for auction starting at $110 or with a Buy it Now option of  $200 a saving of $50 off the normal price of $250.

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Here, There and Everywhere

Here, There and Everywhere

Abstract Landscape by Marion Hedger 

Acrylic and mixed media on panel

30x30cm (12x12 inches) framed in a white frame

Recently Sold

This painting was a nod to my impressionist landscapes, although  the medium and process is different. I was pleased to send it to it's new home of another artist, at a recent art fair. It's always pleasing to know one of your paintings has gone to a good home, and especially pleasing if another artist has purchased it.

Here it is in it's new home

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Congratulations! Your painting, "Dancing on the Inside"...

Congratulations! Your painting, "Dancing on the Inside", was selected as part of the FAV15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in the August 2018 BoldBrush Painting competition.

Thank you Boldbrush, you made my day.

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Most Asked Questions at the Art Fair

THE PATH IS NEVER CLEAR

40X40cm on cradled panel.

Framed in a white floating frame

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Over 4000 visitors visited the Surrey Contemporary Art Fair. It was very busy most of the time from the time the doors opened until about an hour before closing. I'm pleased to say that many of them visited my stand and several stopped and chatted about the paintings.

Similar questions came up time and time again:

How long did it take you paint that?
I became quite adept at explaining that it was difficult to say, as I worked on several paintings at a time for weeks and I won't have any new paintings ready for a while and then several become finished within a short time frame.

Is it collage?
Perhaps it is because I labeled them 'Mixed Media' but possibly also because the layering can make it look as though there might be paper underneath. The 'Mixed Media' tag was used because various media was used in the mark making, e.g. oil pastel, ink, pencil, coloured pencil etc. Perhaps next time I will just say 'acrylic'. I'd be interested in your take on this.

How do you get that gloss finish?
The paintings are finished with a layer of self-leveling get which is brilliant gloss. This is knocked back by a layer of buffed wax to reduce the shine, although it is still quite shiny. This is a finish promoted by Nicolas Wilton and I am still making up my mind on whether I like it or not - my preference is a satin finish.

There were more questions, which I will save for another post.

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New Work, New Year and New Venue

PASSAGE REVEALED

Mixed media

50x60cm (20"x24") on gallery wrapped canvas

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The New Year has been a busy time in my studio. I have been busy painting away on a new series of work for an art fair at the end of February.

I seem to have a split personality as the new work falls into two camps - geometric and landscape based. The above painting is one of the more looser 'landscape' based ones and the one below definitely geometric.

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Mixed  media 

40x40cm on cradled panel

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 Participating in an art fair is a new experience for me, and I am both excited and fearful at the same time. Let me know if you would like complimentary tickets. The venue is Sandown Racecourse, Esher Surrey (UK).

Which Way is UP?

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Help me decide which way round to frame this colourful abstract.

Meadow Song

Intuitive Abstract Art

by Marion Hedger

Part of the 'Connections' series

Medium: Acrylic on Panel

Size: 30 cm / 12 inch x 30 cm / 12 inch x 5mm

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Finished with a high gloss varnished and polished with wax to give a satin glow.

Framed in a black floating frame, it is ready to hang on arrival.

The overall framed size is 34x34cm and 3cm deep.

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Throw Away Boards

Throw Away board.

Or should I paint over it and continue with it?

Another concept introduce by Nicholas Wilton in the course is the Throw Away Board. Have a board by the side of you as you paint. Use it to wipe your brushes, try out ideas, put your palette paper over it (upside-down) at the end of the day - anything you fancy. Throw it away at the end, or maybe it might just turn into it's own painting.

Abandoned Garden 2 Acrylic Painting Finished

Abandoned Garden 2

20x30cm acrylic abstract

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The second half of Day 11's painting - Lots of lovely texture

 Close-up showing the texture.

 

Abandoned Garden 1, Finished from Day 11

Abandoned Garden 1

Acrylic Abstract painting

20x30cm (approx 7x12in)

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Remember this painting from Day 11?

I added more colour and created larger 'flowers' and then cut it into two.
Abandoned Garden 1 is the first half of the painting.

Close-up

DURING THE STORM Finished

DURING THE STORM

Abstract painting

30x40cm (12x16in)

Acrylic on mountboard

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I put the finisishing touches to this painting and it is now available in my Etsy shop. There is a lot of texture on the black 'cloud'.

Some close-ups

 

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AFTER THE STORM Diptych WIP

AFTER THE STORM DIPTYCH

Work in Progress

2x50x60cm (overall 100x60cm - 40x24in)

Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas

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Day 27 of Jan 2017 30 paintings challenge

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Well... I failed in yesterday's task of completing my painting. What did I do instead? Created another one of course!

Living in France the expense of shipping outside of France is high and it makes it difficult to ship large pieces, as Colissimo parcel post do not take very large parcels and DHL fees would be a large percent of the cost of the painting. I would like to paint larger. Some of the ideas this month, in my humble opinion, would look great larger.  To stick my toe in the water, I am trying the diptych and maybe triptych idea, if that works maybe then I'll be ordering those larger canvasses - I told you I was addicted to art supplies.

AFTER THE STORM acrylic abstract, Day 27 of the 30 day challenge

AFTER THE STORM Work in Progress

acrylic abstract painting

50x60cm (20x24in) on gallery wrapped canvas

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Day 27 of Jan 2017 30 paintings challenge

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I needed to use paint today - I was getting withdrawal symptons.


I liked the effect of day 10's painting, During the Storm, and wanted to see if I could scale it up.

I gessoed the canvas with heavy body gesso to get some texture and to ecourage the paint to pool in the texture. This is how it look after the initial wash - Sorry a very glary photo:

Next I mixed black with heavy gel medium and added that in what I hoped was and interesting shape. Then I started working on the colour. This was my initial pass, but I felt it was much too bright.

I continued working on toning it down and trying to 'meld' the colours together and also adding a few darks. Day 10's painting was on mountboard and came out much more moody, probably because the colours ran together more. On the canvas the paint did not flow as easily

Todays task is to bring it to a finished state.

Times Past Abstract Painting, Day 22 30 day painting challenge

TIMES PAST

Acrylic abstract

50x60cm on panel

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Day 22 of Jan 2017 30 paintings challenge

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The title was suggested by my husband. I didn't think he would see anything in this painting, but it's amazing how much he can see in some paintings despite his colour blindness. In fact he very often sees things I don't notice, perhaps because of his colour blindness, he sees the patterns more clearly.

I wanted a combination of texture and blending on this one. Having given up on the texture gel, I used heavy gesso in two areas and scored it with lines and circles. I had the idea of rocky shores maybe with blue above and blue below - sky? sea? I was quite pleased with the texture.

I used white, yellow ochre and alazarin crimson as in Day 20 and rollered that after spritzing the support with water. The alazarin crimson settled nicely into some of the grooves. After adding more white diagonally across, I added blue followed by quin. gold to enhance the grooves.

I then started to scumble various colour combinations over the whole area. Back and forwards for a longgggg time. I added orange into the mix to give more of a golden colour. I felt darks were needed so added some alazarin crimson mix with a tiny bit of black. Oh that was so dark and I lightened it a little. Not sure if that was the right decision. Scumbling takes a lot of time but there is something satisfying about watching the subtle changing of the colours but it's really hard to know when to stop!

I am quite pleased but some more scumbling is needed to meld the colours more and maybe I will lighten the blue. 

This is a concept I can take further for several paintings, but using plaster to create a thicker texture

Day 21 WIP acrylic abstract, 30 paintings challenge

Untiltled WIP

Acrylic abstract painting

50x60cm on panel

Day 21 of Jan 2017 30 paintings challenge

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I started this similar to yesterday's painting but coated the support with the flow medium first (I'm determined to find a good use for it). I used ceruleun blue, alazarin crimson and white. Due to the flow medium the paint was very 'squidgy' as I rolled and the imprint of the rollers was apparent. I decided to go with this and leave the pattern to take me forward. This was how it looked:

I added more paint keeping with the general shapes formed

So far not too bad - but then it went hay wire and resulted in the painting you see at the top. Not good at all, I somehow lost the way on this one. I shall see if I can save it as there are some elements in it that I like. I shall wait a awhile before I look at it again. Or maybe I will cut it up into smaller paintings and go from there.

You win some, you lose some... 

'SAMURAI' Acrylic Abstract, Day 20 of 30 day Challenge

'SAMURAI'
50X60cm (20x24in) acrylic on panel

Day 20 of Jan 2017 30 paintings challenge

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Going larger and being bolder in my approach.

Today I wanted to practice blending. The Golden Fluid acrylics dry so quickly that blending with them is out of the question unless lots of water is used which results in a thin film of paint. I managed to get hold of some Liquitex acrylics in our small town which I know have a longer 'wet' time (is that even a term?). Another new technique for me was using a roller.

I squirted some white, yellow ochre and alazarin crimson onto the board and rollered them to death for my base.

The start - as you can see I repurposed an old painting again

I wanted a dark area somewhere in the middle but did not want to use black, so I used cerulean blue and alazarin crimson. Unfortunately this resulted in a bit of a mess not my perfect bluey purple vision.

How did I hide this? by adding more colour of course! This was another painting that evolved as I went along - what a lot of fun but a nightmare at the same time.

A close -up

My husband - a confirmed "I don't like abstracts" person - paid me the ultimate complement on this one by asking me not to sell it as it 'spoke' to him.

RIFT Abstract Painting, Day 19 of 30 day challenge

RIFT

Acrylic abstract painting

30x40cm on MDF canvas panel

Day 19 of Jan 2017 30 paintings challenge

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This painting started out similarly to yesterday's painting but using the cut offs from piece of water colour paper I used. I pasted these on the edges of a panel. I mixed some gel medium into so modelling paste in the hope it might make it more firm. I wanted the make round indentations into the paste, it worked to a certain extent - you can see some of the indentations in the following photo.

I painted the textured area a deep blue and dropped pure orange, yellow and red into the indentations. After creating some streaks on the paper and adjusting the blues in the central area I called it done.

This could go anywhichway. Which orientation doe you think looks best?

 

Quick Getaway Abstract, Day 18 of 30 paintings challenge

QUICK GETAWAY

Acrylic abstract painting

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Day 18 of Jan 2017 30 paintings challenge

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I started off this painting with the idea of a smooth middle section and highly textured top and bottom section. I ripped some NOT watercolour paper to give bevelled edges and used that as the middle strip.

I created a vertical texture in the top third and a slanted texture with a palette knife at the bottom. This gave a large area at the bottom but it all had a similar texture, so, again with the palette knife, I made one part rougher than the rest. Again, to break up the remaining larger bottom left hand section I put in circles of white paint in a diagonal direction. This is where it was at the end of the day.

The textured area was not as textured as I wanted but decided to see what I could do with it. I added more colours at the top, spritzing it a little in the hope that it would pool at the top of the ripped paper. I did the same with the lower rough areas using stronger paint. The colours I used were  Quinacridone nickel azo gold and teal and I was mindful that I wanted a muted effect. Staying with these two colours, I added circles to link the upper and lower sections using a bottle top. I needed some smaller circles but could not find anything to use. My husband came to the rescue with a ring spanner, et voilà the painting was finished (I think!).

After looking at it for a while I saw a ski slope with skiers queing up to ski down. What do you see?

Close-ups of the texture

 

Possibilities Oil Painting Abstract Day 17 of Jan 2017 30 paintings challenge

Possibilities Abstract Painting

Oil on 6x8in box canvas

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Day 17 of Jan 2017 30 paintings challenge

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Today I am cheating a little. This is an abstract I painted a few months ago from paint left on my palette. You can see my favourite colours in this teal, purples and pinks.

 

I started two abstracts today but could carry neither of them further. I researched modelling paste and how to use it on the internet and then went out to purchase some with a firm idea of what I wanted to try. Well... the paste was way more fluid than I expected it to be, I expected a thick, grittier paste but what I had purchased did not have as much body as my gel medium. I couldn't really sculpt it at all and it took a day to dry, knocking my plans awry. Does anyone have experience with modelling paste? The only modelling paste I could find in our local town was Pebeo in a tube.

This is where I ended yesterday's painting I wanted to try a toned down colour scheme to take me out of my comfort zone:

 

 

Work in Progress Day 14, 30 day challenge

Work in Progress

40x50cm (12"x16") acrylic on mountboard

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Day 14 of Jan 2017 30 paintings challenge

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A complete change of pace today. I found this forgotten abstract at the bottom of a drawer and I liked the way the shapes danced across the page. I had the idea I could change it to an autumn scene and call if falling leaves.

I coated the mount board with pale cream and added my shapes.
I watched another Nicholas Wilton video about Differences and Spontaneity and one of the techniqes he used was transferring paint using a transfer technique by painting on a piece of greaseproof paper and laying that on the painting. I loved the broken effect and it contrasted nicely with the larger flat painted shapes.

Oh! way too busy and too much blue. One thing I didn't consider was a quiet area versus the busy areas...

A little better.

Where it's at now. Getting busy again and the larger shapes are more or less the same size. Maybe I need to make one of them eg the red one, super large. I also have the urge to coat the whole thing with transparent white and put in some verticals. Maybe like this-

Something to think about...