Something Different

Thought I would paint something very different although its also quite similar to what I have painted before

Its called Melting Reality and reflects how ive sometimes seen reality in my head, focused and unfocused, bright and also dripping as if it were wax from a candle

 More abstration

After a day of not feeling well, I finished this piece which is based on another artists work, came MaryAnneShakyHand who created geometric art which I think is lovely

It helps me to focus when my attention span is all over the place, and I love how the flow of colour on the page is enhanced by the individual colours in the geometric shapes.

This one is in pen an dink with the colour from coloured watercolour pencils, but the next one to do is one with acrylic paint as well, just to see the contract

 Abstraction

If you've been looking at my website (https://www.ianhammondart.co.uk) you'll have seen that most of my most recent work has been abstract art, mixing rainbows, nature and geometric shapes in various ways.  

Part of this is because when emotionally I'm in lots of places, it helps me to relax and almost feel the colours and put them onto the canvas or paper, but also its acknowledging the importance of all of the shades and colours to life, and that they are all connected. 

Thats not meant to be pretentious.  It's about shades of colour across all parts of nature, with no one colour being dominant across the board.

So I started playing with colour, trying different things.  I saw an amazing artist on Instagram,  called Maryanne Shakyhand (www.gabbagallery.com) who creates amazing geometric pictures, and so I did a bit of that sort of art, but also flowing rainbows of colour, either as solid flows or lines of individual colour.  

Below are some of these

Im enjoying the less restricted painting style in the latest works, but the geometric style does help my mind to both fly and focus at the same time, which is good at times when its in the wind

Have a look at the other stuff on my website. I hope you like them.  Feel free to comment

Autumn Storms and Sunshine

I had a lovely walk yesterday walking in the fields, between the rain storms and high wind flying. The colour of the clouds on either side were in stark contrast to each other, with rain pouring out of the sky, as well as rainbows lifting up from the ground.

 

the orange of the reflected light is really beautiful, and reflecting off the trees brings out so much of the contrasting colours.

its a part of the country I really enjoy and its calm and quietness are what I look forward to getting back home to

 New Listings on Etsy and on Instagram

If you get the chance, have a look at my new postings on Instagram, which are also for sale on Etsy

  

My Instagram site is :  https://www.instagram.com/ian_hammond_artist 

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 Swirls

So yesterday i decided to try something abstract but different to the sort of thing I’ve been doing for a while.

I had in my mind something like flowing streams of light coming up from below and towards the top of the canvas.

So this is how it started

I didn't like it so started playing with colours

which ended like this

I quite like it. ill leave it for a while and see if I like it in a week or so.

 Continuing abstraction

After a busy week last week, I thought Id try something very abstract but also fairly restricted in terms of design, and which had texture in 3D

Sounds a bit of a plan, although if I had thought too deeply at the start, it wouldn't have ended up as it finished

So, this is how it started:

just individual lines with a thin paintbrush, looking a bit like threads in embroidery.

It built up a bit, one line at a time, slowly filling the white space in. I didn't add a base layer of paint as the white starkness made the contrasts even better.

The final initial layering ended up like this:

it was a tad threadbare, so I added more and more lines, stretching the darker colours in the centre out towards the edges. As it filled in, so the white canvas disappeared until the finished version ended up as you can see at the bottom of this page.  I love the texture of the surface, in places a mm in thickness, and the colour feels like it is shooting past you as you watch it.  

I am enjoying painting in this style and am interested in what people think of it.