Paula Dunn

Jan 07, 2013

...and Burdall went to Skinningrove: an illustration of 7 days of painting

The last seven days have been spent painting from a photograph of Skinningrove by Ian Burdall.  It's not my usual sea-scape but when I saw Ian's image 6 months ago I was really taken by how powerful it was and he kindly let me use his image to work on. From the start I thought that the usual siz...

Dec 02, 2012

Procrastination....

A couple of paintings on the go which really really should have been finished by now... instead we've watched Mad Men, done some Christmas shopping and talked a lot about what we should be getting on with... Next weekend maybe??

Nov 24, 2012

Southport goes to the Butterfly Rooms

This painting has been driving me mad for some time now and I really could put my finger on why I wasn't happy with it.  Some paintings get you that way, thankfully not that often otherwise I'd never finish anything!  So had a bit of a brain wave and decided to frame it to see how that work and c...

Nov 17, 2012

Biscuit Factory Preview

The preview for the Biscuit Factory's winter show took place last night.  It also happened to be the BF's 10th anniversary so there was a good turn out on the evening - also the flowing bubbly tends to help draw in the crowds as well as the artists!  As always they put on a really good show and t...

Apr 15, 2012

9 out of 10 cats prefer....

Alfie helping me to take photos of new work..!  Actually think he was really just objecting to me using one of the many places in our garden that  he likes to sleep in.

Mar 29, 2012

Various stages of painting

Was inspired by artist Gillian Lee Smith's (http://gillianleesmith.wordpress.com/) blog on the process of painting and decided to have a go myself.  Not sure it works quite as well as Gillian's but here is my latest painting, completed this afternoon.  This is one of a series of 6 paintings of th...