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New Collaboration between Helen Davison and Amanda Hunt

amanda — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:05:59 +0000

Here’s a new collaboration between Helen Davison and Amanda Hunt – it’s called “London by Night”.

Helen painted the background in acrylics and ink and then sent the canvas to me. I then added the foreground layer in acrylics. This is a unique way of working with no communication between the artists, each adding their own character and inspiration to the painting. The end result is a truly distinctive piece of art.

I really enjoyed the challenge of this piece as the colours Helen chose for the background are unlike anything I would normally use. It made me think a little differently and I am really pleased with the result.

Mini Art Show

Aitch — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:44:18 +0000

I have recently entered 7 paintings for the 2nd Mini Art Show to be held at the South Street Gallery in Scarborough. I created 4 new ones for the exhibition and entered the 3 that I had entered in the first one also. The exhibition runs from February 17th to April 3rd.

Here’s a couple of the new ones I’ve created:

Celestial

Ruby

New Artwork

amanda — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:40:10 +0000

Thought I’d share with you a picture of my newest painting – Japanese Blossom.
I love chinese and japanese artwork with garden flowers and cherry blossom and was inspired to try a variation of my own. I was also thinking ahead to Spring (wishful thinking maybe!) when there is always a fantastic display of cherry blossom all down my road. The first true sign that spring has arrived and summer is on it’s way. Not long to wait now!

Ferens Open Exhibition

Aitch — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:47:44 +0000

This morning I dropped off two paintings for the annual Ferens Art Gallery’s Open Exhibition, which takes place from Saturday 12th February until Sunday 3rd April 2011. I have entered a few times in the past without success, but I have positive feelings this time – I am entering “3 Wise Men An An Interloper” and “Red Rocks”. Both paintings are an acrylic/ink media on canvas board and are mounted and framed. I entered them successfully for the East Yorkshire Open Art Exhibition last July so decided to use them again.

I will find out if I have been successful on 4th February, so fingers crossed!

Red Rocks

3 Wise Men And And Interloper

Latest painting uploaded

Aitch — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:37:06 +0000

It’s been a long time since I uploaded any new work to my personal web-site. I have been concentrating on small craft-based items recently, such as my decorated note-books and hand-made cards etc. However, I did manage to complete a small painting last month in order to display it at the exhibition with ERA at Burton Constable Country Fair.

So, after a month without exposure online, here is my most recent painting – “Giza Look”. It is loosely based on the three pyramids I saw when visiting them at Giza, just outside Cairo earlier this year. I just wanted to re-create the feel of them, their texture and colour. The painting is in acrylic and in a wooden frame which is free-standing.

I need to get back to blogging, too after quite a long time without much input!

Aitch at Burton Constable Hall

Aitch — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:23:18 +0000

This weekend I will be exhibiting and selling my smaller range of artworks and gifts at the Burton Constable Country Fair. From 10am to 5pm on Sunday 11th July you can find me in the Old Riding School within the grounds of the Hall in Sproatley, East Yorkshire. In total, 18 members of ERA (East Riding Artists) will be taking part and as I have no idea who the others are, I may well meet some new associates!

I have been working on getting together a decent amount of small affordable items to sell as I think they will be more appealing at this sort of event. I am currently working on 3 more magnetic shopping pads and a hardback note-book. I have ordered plenty of new cellophane bags in which to display and sell these and am waiting for their delivery.

These are the ones I have already created and I have since made a few more in a similar style. If I don’t sell them all at the weekend I will be putting them up on my Etsy shop and my personal website too.

Mixed media painting by Aitch

Aitch — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:46:08 +0000

I have recently finished another small painting using mixed media, ready to take to the Burton Constable Country Fair in July. Having built up a supply of mini canvas and easel paintings, I am also hoping to take a fair few smaller sized paintings from my existing stock as well as create some new ones.

Painted all over with a metallic blue acrylic paint, I then glued some metallic blue cord in a spiral shape and filled each segment with various beads and dots of acrylic white paint. It was only when I’d uploaded it and was varnishing it, however, that I noticed it bears a resemblance to a collaboration painting done by fellow RGC artists Kosana Marton and Andrea Farmer. I must have had the image of their painting in my sub-conscious mind for ages without realising it!

Here is my latest creation, “Mutable Cell I”. It is 7 x 5 inches.

I think it rather resembles “Sensuality” -which can be seen here on the RGC website. Although that was not my intention as I started creating this piece, it shows what an impact art has on you whether you are aware of it or not.

Collaborative works on the go….

Aitch — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:23:33 +0000

I have just received a message from Amanda to say that my background painting has been received. I can therefore now show you the image of the painting as it was when I sent it to her. I said it would be quite a challenge for her, as it is nothing like her usual style or colour choice, but I’m sure she will be up to it!

Prepared background for Amanda

I painted this using a plastic palette knife. I deliberately left a small area either side of the crimson red strip strip down the middle of the painting as bare canvas. I painted lamp black at the top and bottom edges of the canvas, then used a “shimmering red” interference acrylic medium, which gives different effects depending on how you use it. It has created a pinkish hue on the black areas, but I have a feeling it will change even more as Amanda creates the foreground layer. I am really looking forward to how she treats this one and wonder if she is wishing I’d done a more traditional landscape instead!

No doubt Amanda will report back when she has finished it. I am hoping Kos gets her background painting soon, too – I posted it yesterday so it shouldn’t take too long to get to her.

I love the freedom you get when working on a collaboration – not sure if I prefer painting the background or the foreground, but either way, it’s a really exciting way of creating something. You can see the rest of the Rogue Gene Collective’s Collaborative Artworks here and by browsing through the individual members’ galleries.