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A5 sketchbook, acrylic paint

Cemetry Statues

From photos of a graveyard statues. The stone must have been beautifully carved, perhaps in the 1920s. Now it has weathered and has lichen growing on it. Some surfaces show the paths of decades of rain. Some of these have probably endured 100 winters, thousands of rainstorms and hot summer’s days. Lichem makes up most of the discolouration though there is moss in places too.

These are all on A5 cartridge paper with acrylic paints. Each has an acrylic ground which is dry before the image is started. There is no pencil makring up. Layers of paint are added as thin glases.

Acrylic in A4 sketchbook: 4 pages.

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  • There is a distortion here but I rather like it.
  • I suspect this needs a few more layers.
  • Because I like plaits.
  • Now it’s uploaded, I can see what’s wrong here.
4 pages from my painting sketchbook.

All are acrylic on A4 pages in multiple layers. The method is generally the same – prepare the page with a mid-tone ground; 2 sessions; work from mid-tones towards light & dark, last marks are black and pure white (often just a dot).