Latest Painting now up..

The painting I did for an Art competition is now up and can be viewed at Ashton Market Hall, Ashton Under Lyne, Tameside. Its not a good photograph but its the only one I've had sent to me at the moment. Mines the one in the centre, see the previous posts…

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I have a new website its still a bit outdated but I'm useless at building websites, its been a long time since I built one from scratch so much has changed, what happened to frames and tables…

You can see the website at www.ptrichardson.co.uk

UK P&P Prices Online Art Shops...

Awhile ago I mentioned that I use Artifolk when I required just a couple of items due to the fact that if you spent over £10 P&P was free.. However just to inform you that to get the free delivery you now have to spend £20 :(. Also GreatArt has lowered there free delivery to £25 from £40 so I've placed an order with GreatArt as they have a wider range of materials to choose from. Sometimes though you just require a couple of things and the P&P costs more then the items, that's when I miss the local art shops.

Ashton Market Finished.

I finally finished the painting of Ashton Market, the painting was done for an art competition so I had to rush it a bit and it isn't as polished as I would like but it will do. This is the first time I've entered a competition, pretty sure I wont get anywhere but I had fun doing it and I painted in a much looser style than I normally would. The painting only took a week and half to complete from start to finish which I usually take a lot longer to do a painting (might have something to do with a the hand in date). I really enjoyed doing this painting, well most of the time this is the first time I have painting on a canvas I normally use canvas board/panel but I wanted something larger than A1. The canvas is 40 x 32 inches and I had a few problems as my room is only small but I managed it in the end  If anyone is in the area (Manchester-ish / Tameside) they can see the painting in the Ashton Market Hall in the seating area from next week. Please leave some feedback/comments as most of the time I think I'm writing this blog just for myself :) For a larger image you can go here.  

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Study for Ashton Market

I've gone as far as I can with the drawing as I'm running out of time, I would say the drawing still needs work but I need to get it on to the canvas and Ill sort it out there. The drawing is now 40x32 inches slightly bigger than the A4 watercolour study of the previous post. This is the largest painting I've done so far I normally I use canvas panels no bigger than A1 in size. The canvas I bought is a cheap one from The Works but I wouldn't recommend them I'll have to Gesso it to be on the safe side, remove the dints and fill in the dints I cant remove. I suppose you get what you pay for but at least I won't have to buy an expensive frame now.

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Study for Ashton Market

There's a art competition for Ashton Market which is in Lancs, I have been to Ashton Market around a million times in my lifetime as I used to live only a few miles from there and spent a lot of my youth in Ashton. Though I now live in North Wales I decided to go down and get some photos, the competition deadline is at the end of the month so I've still got a couple of weeks to produce something. The watercolour study below might be the one, just a few tweaks more detail, enlarged and done on Acrylics. I would have liked to do it in oil paints but there's no time for it to dry, any comments, suggestions welcome.

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