I have been working with Fastmatte Oils by Gamblin and Fluid Matte Acrylic by Golden in an attempt to replicate the wonderful matte finish of Casein. The oils are useful painting outside and the acrylics I reserve for the studio.
Railway trail heading East, 10″ x 8″. oil fastmatte
Near Woodies 10×8 oil fastmatte
Palms at Lagoon Park 6×8 oil fastmatte
Some of my travel sketches, most of them are done in restaurants or when we are waiting for transportation. I name them for the place where they were done and the sketchbooks become travel diaries.
I paint them in Holbein sketchbooks and I use a winsor and newton travel box for my paints with a couple of DaVinci sable travel brushes.
My biggest problem is losing my little water bottle it looks like it belongs on the table and I seem to keep forgetting it.
Our invite, thanks Rhona, please take note the show opens on a Thursday. Join us if you can
Our Invite
I am taking part in a two person show at Masterworks with Rhona Emmerson, Oils for her and Watercolours for me.
These are some of my images.
They are taken from the work I have done over the past year. There seem to be an a lot of marines, it could be that all the boating that is going on up in Dockyard with the Americas Cup programme is having an influence.
I
am told that yesterdays sunrise was most spectacular, sun came up again this morning, but was hiding behind a cloud, oh well.
Sometimes events get in the way of plans.
Christopher
Dockyard work, Casein 10″x 8″ SOLD
Setting the nets, Casein 10″x 8″ SOLD
Westerly waves, Casein 10″x 8″ SOLD
Setting for Bait Casein 22″x30″ $1200
Unfortunately after nearly a year of working with it I came out in hives, I didn’t even know what they were at first but I certainly didn’t like having red itchy bumps allover my elbow pits. After a month of trying various remedies I saw the word casein and hives in the same sentence in an online post about supplements for body builders (go google). A light went on, and when I stopped using casein the hives went away.
I had just purchased a substantial quantity of paint when I made the discovery, so I was fortunate to find a fellow painter who was interested enough to purchase it from me.
So its back to gouache for my opaque work.
I like gouache and it has some wonderful qualities but I miss my casein
The sun came up again, the new year is on its way
take care
Christopher
A hot hot wet summer, our watertank is overflowing in August, most unusual. I have spent most of my time in the studio, hiding out from the weather, painting with casein, gouache and watercolour. Casein is exciting, I can use it as watercolour or gouache and it is stiff enough to use like oil on canvas, I’m still exploring. Its great stuff.
This is a random selection of some of the recent work. My nights are spent doing digital portraits and renders
The first of the AC45 boats arrived and I was sitting in a friends garage sheltering from the rain when this machine suddenly appeared and raced across in front of us.
A painting had to be done.
AC 45 off Long Point, Somerset, 6″x 8″ Gouache. SOLD
Columbia Street
Another from gate 34 JFK
Sketchbook travel paintings, done on a recent trip to California. These are the paintings that I do in restaurants, airports, cars, in fact anytime that I’m sitting and waiting. I carry a small travel pack with me everywhere I go. We were in Oakland, Berkeley, Monterey, and the Sierra Mountains, a busy trip.
