roy munday, artist and art tutor. runs art classes on merseyside, sefton, southport. sells paintings
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experimental paintings
In recent weeks, have decided to take my painting into a different direction. Towards semi-abstract, a more expressive way to paint.
Have begun working differently. Trying to move away from pure representational work to more semi-abstract. So, it's back to basic drawing, but having no definite plan, other than going were instinct and spontaneity takes me!
Girls' Night Out, Liverpool. I'm fascinated by how girls, in the depth of winter, put fashion before sensible dress! Middle of winter!
More gestural painting. Based on a humble teapot. Repetitive drawing, superimposing, allowing instinct, repeating shapes to achieve a more harmonious result. Still early days
...same drawing, but used Waterdown acrylics and worked mostly wet onto wet, to see the result.
A more contemporary take on a still-life. Watercolour.
Another example of working differently from my usual style. This study is based and a famous photograph taken by Bert Hardy of two Glasgow boys
A second attempt. In this example, I 'took the line for a walk'. In other words, once you put the charcoal on the paper, you don't lift it off until you think you've completed the drawing, neither do you look at the drawing! But you get exciting results which hopefully will lead on to something else.
Preliminary oil study, sunset over May Hill, from the Severn, Framilode, Gloucestershirre