Jane Davenport Blog

…modern photography is just so neat and clean…well it can be! I certainly like my studio nice and organised so I can find the right lenses …but painting…oooh the delightful mess! these images show the fun I had painting a  tree a few weeks ago…I painted my hands and leaves and then pressed them onto my canvas in different shapes on my canvas to create texture – yes like a child! Such mess and fun.

When I walked past my photography studio covered in colour,  i saw my cameras shudder and shrink to the back of their shelves….I had to calm them down…”  it’s alright my little pets, Mama would never touch you with the nasty paint…”…

i am just feeling a bit nudie with my painting exposed in the last Post… so I need to run under the skirts of the familiar for a moment! I created some still-life vignettes (love that word)…for my DevOcean series. It was the first major shoot working with my new Studio Block (see post below – i don’t know how to link to my own posts – cripes!)…and with the AM.AaaaY. ZING weather in Byron Bay the last few whiles…well, being inspired in a beachified manner came as no surprise…

I was tinkering and shooting for hours and hours and hours a day. I will use the images for signed prints, and I shot them off to some of my art licensing partners and they fainted all over the place and demanded hi-res versions..so excitingness on many levels!

I love taking a workshop that leads me in a new direction. I acquire new skills, explore and experiment. I have never painted using acrylic paint before and I am really enjoying using it. Last week in class, we started  by creating a collage to use as inspiration for the underpainting. I didn’t finish it and don’t like it really. It isn’t resonating with me..yet…maybe it never will! Bit rather than turn my back on it and get on with something else, I am going to perservere!

My Acrylic painting class is with Bernadette Curtin (Bernie!),

It is still a work in progress….And I worked a little more on the ‘Collage’ painting today, and don’t really want to post it …but as this is in the spirit of expanding my boundaries…Courage my Love! Here goes…

The plan for this painting is to add text across it, so that the colours, bubbles and textures form an underpainting. So that will be the next step. eeeeeeeek!

………………UPDATE – I finished this painting! Look for Courage my Love part 2!