tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10266634127091337642024-03-13T05:57:01.732-07:00DOGSCATSANDDOLLSPlease note copyright of all photographs and art work is the property of the artist.geraldine.boley@googlemail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070301334106441345noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026663412709133764.post-7597744508451218022011-09-05T04:58:00.000-07:002011-09-05T05:02:47.180-07:00Drawing a line in time: A test, a competition, a question: or, what is in ...A link to a favorite artist's blog and a competition...<br />
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<a href="http://drawingalineintime.blogspot.com/2011/06/test-competition-question-or-what-is-in.html?spref=bl">Drawing a line in time: A test, a competition, a question: or, what is in ...</a>: When I visit schools I take with me a number of 'props'. One is a necklace that I wear most of the time anyway, a silver bottle with red s...geraldine.boley@googlemail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070301334106441345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026663412709133764.post-56760895710706496932011-08-30T02:51:00.000-07:002011-08-30T02:51:00.362-07:00Finished portraits and thoughts on the new termI have been fiddling on and off with this for a little while but it is now finished, and although far from perfect I am quite pleased as it is my first colour pencil portrait (or colour pencil anything really)<span id="goog_471387309"></span><span id="goog_471387310"></span><br />
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Although I feel my technical skills with this medium are advancing I am not totally happy with this one. I'm not really sure why, but it seems to have an oldy worldy children's story look about it and I don't feel it captures Leah's true character. I am not a lover of full colour work and am much happier with monochrome or limited palettes, but I don't think this is totally the problem. so I have put this away for now and started another, same subject but different medium and a pose that is much more appropriate to Leah's true character.<br />
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This one is being worked in colour pencil, a medium that I have dabbled with on and off but never really got to grips with. Instead of using the popular (coloured pencil artists books ) instruction, that I normally try to do, this time I have just gone straight in using the same methods I use for my graphite work and so far it seems to be looking ok. Still some work to do, but here is where I am at...<br />
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geraldine.boley@googlemail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070301334106441345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026663412709133764.post-8148819033553140832011-07-28T03:04:00.000-07:002011-07-28T03:04:16.769-07:00Alice in the ParkJust thought I would add a few pics of our summer 'Alice in the Park' exhibition, organised and run by<br />
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In the photographs Alice is my grand-daughter Leah and Kev (my husband ) the Mad Hatter.<br />
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My major exhibition at college went well, and I now have a Foundation degree in Applied Art and Design, I have been accepted for the BA Hons degree course in the same subject so have one more year to do.<br />
The local summer Arts festival was a bit of a wash out due to the weather, but we did manage one and half days (details and pictures on my Facebook page if anyone is interested)<br />
I am currently taking some time doing some of my own art (as opposed to school stuff) and updating my website www.geraldineboley.com, with new work. I have discovered that I like human portraiture as well as the animal kind and have been playing around with charcoal and pastel.<br />
Something that my course has given me is a new perspective on my own work, and having experimented with lots of subjects and different media, I have come almost full circle back to pastels, although I now also enjoy dabbling with water colour, acrylic and collage. I am looking at other ways of using pastels as I have become slightly bored with my style of working, and have become very enthusiastic about using their inherent properties to the full, and also looking at a wider scope of subjects, so this will be my next step.......<br />
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pastel/pastel pencil/charcoal pencilgeraldine.boley@googlemail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070301334106441345noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026663412709133764.post-84149841509765574782011-04-25T23:00:00.000-07:002011-04-25T23:00:58.176-07:00update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_701435787"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mj3QhL98avI/TbZdCJgsLhI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/niOANDTX56M/s200/IMG_7621.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">`its been a while since I posted on here, but the easter weekend has given me some breathing space to catch up on a few things and the beautiful weather we have been having means an earlier start to the day so I can fit more in;-). I am busy preparing for my assessments for my degree, all due in the next three weeks or so and also for our major exhibition. I am currently working on three large (5' x 4') trees in charcoal on heavy rough water colour paper and these are currently the strongest contenders for my exhibition pieces. I have spent a day at Bristol Zoo (with grand -children) taking photos hopefully for future reference and also the last two days have been visiting the Secret World wildlife rescue center. Both these enterprises work very hard for conservation and the rescue center is entirely dependent on volunteers and donations. See link on this blog/facebook for further info. I have some seriously good photographs of some of our local wildlife and am hoping to get some of my own work underway in the summer..........</span><br />
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This one is marked towards our degree so is very important!<br />
I have been working in my sketchbooks and also have done some random artwork, including some linocut, but have once again come back to drawing. I have recently drawn several trees and these along with the crows are becoming a bit of an obsession. I am currently exploring charcoal, mixed media and oil pastel (separately, not all together) and so far have not come up with any concrete ideas for the show apart from the fact that it will probably be tree and /or crow related. Anyways for the moment a few pics of current work.<br />
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To be honest my painting attempts on the last project did not get a great reception, so I have side stepped slightly, not wanting to abandon the collage and mixed media, and my own way of working just to tick boxes, I have added more in the way of tissue paper, oil pastel and stitch to a couple of new pieces, still working within my nature, and crow/bird, themes, the first is still quite representative, but the second is much more instinctive.........hopefully a step in the right direction, but certainly something I wish to explore further. I have also included a picture of the second acrylic/collage version of the book/crow painting<br />
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<span id="goog_261126053"></span><span id="goog_261126054"></span>geraldine.boley@googlemail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070301334106441345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026663412709133764.post-39518596689373518922010-10-13T12:12:00.000-07:002010-10-13T23:50:00.335-07:00acrylic/collageI have just completed my three week project for college, it was to kick start us into our major projects for the remainder of our year, unfortunately this turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. I think as an artist my concepts tend to be reasonable enough but this piece of work falls short of contemporary. It has however given me some ideas for progression this (school ) year,<br />
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This week was the start of the new year at Uni and I have spent the last three days registering/enrolling etc and generally getting back into the swing of things. Once again I have mixed feelings about whether I am suited to the (mature) 'student' thing, and I am already having sleepless nights, my time management skills are far from perfect and I always struggle with the amount of work. A new project has been set which I will update on in a day or so, but in the meantime..........<br />
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The swan is coming along slowly, after a bit of a hiccup, (on the new blog) and I am hoping to finish it in the next day or so.geraldine.boley@googlemail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070301334106441345noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026663412709133764.post-47946244997962160192010-07-29T07:10:00.000-07:002010-07-29T07:10:25.860-07:00swan in acrylics/work in progressHope I am not tempting fate by blogging this one, but if so it won't be the first one consigned to the bin., and it's all good experience. As my attempts with painting 'kess' In acrylics did not go as well as I had hoped (she is now on her second coat of oils and in the process of drying) I have started another acrylic painting. Thinking that feathers might possibly be easier (?) than fur in paint, I decided on another swan, mainly because I have endless references and also as I have just done a couple in pastels, thought it may prove a little easier!<br />
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Well last weekend's little exhibition was a good introduction for me, sharing a gazebo with other artists, as a part of the local 'Picnic in the Park' was not too formal and I had quite a bit of interest in my Pet Portrait Paintings, particularly the one of Maisie that illustrates this blog. I didn't sell anything but all my promotional material went and I had several enquiries, and I am hopeful I may get a couple of commissions. I currently have a bit of a backlog, due to getting ready for the shows, there is another bigger one this weekend, 'Art in the Park' which is totally art orientated so I am looking forward to this one. I have spent the last couple of days printing greeting cards of my work and mounting my acrylic/collage paintings as I am going to add them to my other work to see if they get any interest. am hoping to finish my pencil drawing of the gull and goose, before saturday but am running out of time, so may just put on my website shop.<br />
Here are the four paintings I am in the process of mounting, for the show<br />
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