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Oil & Print Collages

Even though I paint in quite a traditional manner with oil on canvas, I also tend to utilise digital technology in order to prepare collages containing all the elements I want to appear in my final paintings.

I then print out these colleges as reference material, and then, when I'm deciding on which direction to take the painting, I'll then make a print on canvas of the current state of the canvas, so that I can paint ideas onto the print before committing to the actual painting.

Coming soon!

Original Drawings

Drawing has always been the foundation of my practice, and it serves many purposes. A drawing is the most immediate expression of an idea, which is why sketchbooks are so important for getting thoughts expressed while they're still fresh in the mind.

Of course, I also often like my finished paintings to retain the spontaneous quality of a drawing in the way I apply the paint marks.

Original Watercolours

I learnt to paint by making plein air (outdoors) watercolours with my father, who was a very talented amateur painter. We'd sit at opposite ends of a field and then meet up an hour later to compare our results. I then moved on to painting plein air oil on board in my teens, but I've kept a fondness for watercolours.

Original Oil Sketches (small)

I really love oil paint! But in order to create a painting on canvas there's a lot of preparation. First the stretcher has to be built, then canvas stretched over it, then it's sized & primed before it can be painted on.

So, the quickest way to explore ideas with oil paint is to paint on board or a specially prepared oil paper. I used to paint on board, but I currently prefer oil paper as it's in pads & ready to work on immediately, while boards still have to be cut up & prepared.

Original Oil Studies (large)

I love making small oil studies on paper, but then you really don't get a sense of the scale of the final painting, so I sometimes make a full-size oil study on canvas so that I can try out ideas at the correct size.

Sometimes these oil studies develop into the final painting, and sometimes I change my mind about something and decide to start work on another canvas, keeping the study in it's original state.

Original Oil Paintings

My completed oil paintings come in all shapes and sizes, from just a few inches across to great big canvases 8, 10 or even 15 foot across.

I love to paint big. But often a smaller scale is perfectly good, and certainly a lot easier to display in a normal sized house!

I'm very patient when I'm working on a large oil painting, and some of them can take literally years to complete. This isn't because I'm working on them every day, but because it can take that long for me to get a feeling for the painting, gradually make adjustments, and finally resolve it into an original composition.

Commissions

I've been painting commissions all my life, and I really enjoy making them because they often result in my most accomplised pieces: paintings that have had a tremendous amount of time, energy and thought put into them.

My commissions differ from my 'studio' paintings mainly because they have a clear destination, usually something very ambititous that I deliberately set out to accomplish. Whereas, my normal studio paintings tend to simply evolve in their own way, and often end up completely different to what I had intended!

My Website

On my main website you'll find a Portfolio of my most recent paintings, studies, sketches, watercolours, drawings and commissions from my Cinematic Landscape, Theatrical Landscape, and Cafe Royal series. Visit www.kitglaisyer.com

My Instagram

You're welcome to follow me on Instagram where I have the latest updates on my works-in-progress, what's on show in my Gallery, progress photos of my paintings, pieces I've recently sold, new series that I'm working on, short videos, tours of my studio, demonstrations of my working practice. etc. Visit @kitglaisyer

Greetings Cards £10 Pack of 3

You might like to receive a sample pack of x3 of my Greetings Cards, which are DL in size. They each come with an envelope, so you can either put them around your home or send them to friends & family.

It's the quickest way to get some of my art in your home, so click HERE & I'll pop them in the post!

My book £20 Softback & £10 eBook

I spent four years working on my book 'Kit Glaisyer - The Marshwood Vale & Beyond' which is a panoramic-format Softback & E-book containing a collection of 56 paintings, 16 early pieces & 40 paintings created between 2005 & 2020 at my studio in Bridport's Art & Vintage Quarter, West Dorset.

There's also an essay by Art Historian Nick Reese called 'A Painter's Progess' and 'Evolution of a Painting' which presents a series of images showing the progress of one of my commissions over eight months.

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