Andrew Simpson: Penny Readings, a Reading Room, and two libraries,...

Andrew Simpson: Penny Readings, a Reading Room, and two libraries,...: In the age of the internet who would want to go to a library? For a start you have to go there, and mix with a lot of strangers who are al...

Andrew Simpson: Chorlton’s Lych Gate .......... a collaboration be...

Andrew Simpson: Chorlton’s Lych Gate .......... a collaboration be...: Yesterday I announced the collaboration between Peter Topping the artist and me the writer. We decided to tell the stories behind some of h...

Andrew Simpson: Horse & Jockey stories and a painting

Andrew Simpson: Horse & Jockey stories and a painting: I doubt that any of the twelve men who assembled in the Horse & Jockey in early May of 1847 had any doubt about who was guilty of the murde...

Andrew Simpson: The Royal Oak .... the painting and its history

Andrew Simpson: The Royal Oak .... the painting and its history: Now the collaboration between local artist Peter Topping and me is well under way. He paints pictures of Chorlton and I tell the story behi...

Paintings on White MDF

Now creating Paintings on 7mm MDF. All subjects including animals, people, buildings etc. See Paintings from Pictures on facebook

New Techniques

Just an update to show you some of the new techniques I have been using to achive Watercolour and Oil paintings

Paintings from pictures

I started experimenting with automatic techniques for producing digital paintings to imitate various styles e.g. Oil, Classic Oil, Watercolour, Modern, Sargent, Impressionist, Pencil , Gouache etc.

I soon found these lacking in character and decided to sharpen my skills with a Tablet rather than a mouse so that I could introduce those unique and personal strokes that the Masters have. I work from photographs and pictures as a reference point.

First of all I take the original and enhance it photographically so that I can capture a specific style. I then use this as a reference point for the painting and apply the effect by hand, digitally brushing in the strokes to emulate the chosen effect. Any unwanted background objects are removed and the final piece is cropped to best frame the subject. Some of the paintings look best when printed on canvas and framed with a Gallery framing style

One of my favorites is a painting of the Station Master at Ramsbottom in Lancashire. You can see how the Oil effect swirls around to create the shapes. If you would like to see more paintings from photos http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ptopping/Paintings/
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