Archive for March, 2010

Turban

Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, iPhone Art, Painting Diary with tags , , , on March 24, 2010 by Jenny

There are days when I become focused on certain aspects of faces – the pale thin line at the top of the lip, or the way hairlines recede. Most recently it’s the curve of the forehead that fascinates me.

Here is a very rounded forehead which seems so feminine; a 60′s look with hair pulled back wearing a high turban. As a child I remember my mother wearing turbans like this, particularly on a holiday with Lee Radziwill and her family (and Truman Capote, amazingly) in Portugal. I think all the ladies wore them. I think they still used that lovely cake mascara that came in a pale blue case. The text says ‘Up Up and Away’.

Turban

Turban

Grass- Autumn

Posted in Painting Diary on March 12, 2010 by Jenny

Here is the fourth season of the Grasses pictures, Autumn. Below are Winter, Spring, Summer.

Painted on my iPhone over the last two days while on trains across England.

I used the Vellum app to draw the ‘graphite’ base, and then used the Brushes app to apply colours on top of that.

It’s a bit like taking a print and putting it through several different inked editions…

Grass - Autumn

Grass - Autumn

Grass in Seasons

Posted in Painting Diary on March 11, 2010 by Jenny

I took a train journey today, deep into Dorset to a town called Frome where there’s a stream running through the middle of the high street, on a hill. Beautiful.

On the way, this is what I painted- first drawing with the Vellum app and then colouring. They’re just coloured sketches of grasses in different seasons.

Winter Grass

Winter Grass

Spring Grass

Spring Grass

Summer Grass

Summer Grass

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