Cheap Canvas Printed Wall Art at Wilkinsons

Wilkinson's at the moment have a sale on their canvas printed Wall Art, the sale price are only available at their stores and not online. Don't get them for hanging up on you're wall, save yourself some pennies and gesso them and use them for you're own paintings. You will require around 3 coats of Gesso but please use a decent brand whatever you do don't buy Gesso from The Works, I personal use either Winsor & Newton Galeria or Pebeo. You can either give then a quick sand in between the coats or just on the last coat, you might even decide not to sand them it depends if you want the brush strokes showing and on the texture you want to paint on. I use a foam brush to apply the Gesso I apply very thin layers, always do this outside or in an open area that is well ventilated.

There are different sizes on sale the ones I bought were nearly 24" x 35.25" which cost £3, some square canvases at 19"x19" which where £1 be careful as some are £2 at this size and some smaller ones at 12"x17.75" which where £1 each. The larger and smaller canvases also had a middle support bar, the canvas is attached at the back with staples and not glued on the sides, some of the other frames on sale had the canvas just glued on to the sides. I have only put one coat of Gesso on at the moment and will be putting the other 2 coats on tomorrow however I can tell they will be find. I have done research on painting over printed canvases and as long as you apply Gesso everything seems good. Just thought I'll put this on my blog just in case you would like to take advantage as a blank canvas would cost a lot more especially with a middle support bar. Any comments on putting Gesso onto printed Canvas please share…

Ashton Market Again...

Couple more images from the Ashton Market art competition presentation at the weekend, hopefully it should be in the local paper soon...

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Ashton Market Painting First Prize

I have won first prize for the Ashton Market Art Competition I entered a few months back. The presentation of a small cash prize, certificate, rosette will be presented by the Deputy Mayor at Ashton Under Lyne Indoor Market Hall near the seating area this Saturday around 9:30am. Anyone passing or down there I could do with some support, if you got nothing better to do pop in. The local press will be down there so hopefully there should be a mention in the local rag shorty, as I’m not local if anyone could send me a copy I would be grateful, Ta.


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Sorry for Lack of Posts…

I seem to be really busy recently and haven't got enough time to get everything done, however I can spend up to 2 hours a night sometimes watching the soaps on TV. I've got two art courses going but I'm finding it difficult keeping up with both of them, might have to drop one I'll see how it goes. One course is just a basic foundation course which I've been doing for around 6 weeks and still haven't moved from using a pencil or charcoal but I love my paintbrush. On the other course we are now doing a portrait project which up to now I've only just done the research (need to get something done this weekend). Recently I've been to a couple of exhibitions with college which I enjoyed but on both occasions photography wasn't  allowed. The first one was at Tate Liverpool Marc Chagall's Modern Master which is the one I preferred and could relate my work to more then Kyffin Williams VENEZIA Drawn to the Light at Oriel Ynys Môn. After saying that there was a couple of works by Claude Monet, Walter Sicket and one by Frank Brangwyn that I loved. A few of the images including the ones I've just mentioned can be seen here

Below I've uploaded some drawings, none of them are brilliant but it shows what I've been doing at college for the last few weeks (Measuring and Perspective). The rest of my work I've not uploaded as its just basic work and not worth the effect of uploading next on the agenda is value, whoopee…  

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Started New College Course

Well after taking a year out I have decided to return to college, whether this is a good idea I don't know yet. I've started a part time foundation course in Art and Design which means I'm in college two days a week. I've also enrolled for the same course I did last time which is only run for 6 hours, so with the two courses I will be in college three days a week which is more than I'm use too. As well as these I have the other paintings to complete which I'm already finding it hard to find time to finish. I don't start the other course until a couple of weeks so I'm trying to get things finished and out of the way before I get stuck in. This means that I will be uploading work more regularly than I have been so that has to be a good thing. Below are a few pieces of work that I'm trying to get finish, these are smaller than I normally do and also on canvas and painted with Oils. Some are more finished then then others but all have snow to add.

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