billiemallettspaintingsandthings

new stuff

2011-03-27T16:53:00.004+01:00

I so enjoyed working on this project .. a lovely BIG work ,done for my son Jobie s new office ;it was also a treat to go abstract for another challenge ..did I really need another challenge !

and this one too

2011-02-19T23:31:00.002Z

repenting again

2011-02-19T21:56:00.004Z

I have just had coffee with an avid blogger and I feel very guilty at my slackness with keeping this blog up to date ,so once again ,with sorrowful heart,I repent of my disinterest in blogging and also my introversion that tells me that no one is interested in me and my little lot . So here is my second ( third;fourth!)new beginning !

Work in progress NZ

2010-02-07T06:06:00.009Z

Having now been in Nz for around 3 weeks ,and in flaxmill bay for 10 days ,l have now started on 7 new works and am working on them all simultaneously ,here s a preview

here s a bit of a departure from my usual work

2010-01-14T13:20:00.004Z

I gave myself the challenge of painting something that would be appropriate for an estate agents wall and this is what l have come up with ...any comments??

latest stuff

2010-01-14T13:15:00.001Z

here are some of my latest works for whoever to peruse

From the heart ,still working

2009-11-27T18:19:00.008Z

I know it s been an age since I put up anything .It s not that I have nt been working ,just been a bit busy with selling my house and finding another ,and also felt rather low ,when I feel low I get inertia so all goes quiet .Anyway here is some of the stuff l ve been trying to finish and two portraits ,one a commission and the other a painting of Max ,my brother in law who died on tues night ,he was a good man .The three paintings were a commision from a friend to paint her husband for his 65 th birthday ,l felt the one was not enough to capture him so did three for the price of one instead

2009-09-25T17:42:00.002+01:00

just feel the need to keep something up on the blog ,I am working ,just cant motivate myself to blog right now .

l did landscape

2009-08-05T19:22:00.003+01:00

yes l realy did ,l went to dartmoor arts and spent a week painting in the landscape ,which is code for painting in the rain !! and wind !! and mist . But it was both a chalenge and rewarding and l felt as if l made some headway wirh what was to me a no go area . Tell me what you think !

2009-05-08T15:27:00.004+01:00

why dose nt anyone leave a comment on my portrait blog ..is it really that aweful or boring ??!!

here is how she looks today l think she may be finished ,what do you think

2009-04-28T11:01:00.003+01:00

l love colour

This here is my favorite l did in NZ l just had to bring her home

2009-04-28T10:30:00.002+01:00

Just seem to find myself getting bolder!

getting back to it

2009-04-27T12:28:00.005+01:00

it s been so long since I have updated my blog I forgot my password and how to do it . Having returned from NZ nearly 20 days,I had to get straight into housework and art work !!A deadline of today for a painting to be entered for a competition,well we'll see if anything comes of it . I am a bit more confident now with my experience in NZ to think for it .I have left about 12 paintings in NZ ,8 in a gallery(inspirit gallery ) and the rest with my buddies at Eggsentric (oh dear,I miss them so ) So here are some photos of those left behind .

because a painting has a life of it s own ,l try to let it live

2009-01-28T07:25:00.002Z

this is a quote from jackson pollock ,l found it on utube vis my google it s wort a peep

wee bit of a change of direction

2009-01-27T20:51:00.003Z

picasso just sort of crept out of my subconsious ,,as he does !!! tra la

2009-01-18T11:12:00.004Z

some portraits

2009-01-09T12:51:00.000Z

I thought it might be an idea to put up some of my portraits in a separate part of my blog so they can be seen and added to if and when I get more commissions!

2009-01-09T12:01:00.001Z

2009 going on

2009-01-09T11:54:00.000Z

Time continues to rush by and l am still changing ever changing ;enter the dark night ,l like it s dencity and intencity it s such a strange thing this creativity lark ,when is a painting finished >> when it s finished !! Picasso said that to finish a painting is to kill it >>

going on 29 th dec

2008-12-28T16:38:00.000Z

having been doing Christmas ,has meant I have not been painting till now ,although I have frequently popped into my studio to take a fresh look and the painting .i ve now worked on it again for a few hours and feel it s in that fluid place that they all seem to go through ,you feel like it s too tight too flat too sameish ,but you know from experience that if you just hang in there with it eventually it might be OK.

saturday

2008-12-20T15:35:00.000Z

l like the way the blue takes you in and out of the figure,she is intergrated with the space around her neverthelass there is still a solidarity about her that l would like to keep . The landscape is too predictable and lacks integrityand indivduallity ;must change that .I use a miror to check the balance

following on

2008-12-19T21:34:00.000Z

here a some of my res ponces to the beginning of this canvas . Too much red;the area s of colour and form are too similar in size weight and density.There is not enough contrast,yet when l turned it sideways up l could see that it was nt so much that there was too much red and pink it was more that it was too bitty and the eye had nowhere to rest

following

2008-12-18T13:54:00.000Z

I thought it would be an interesting thing(if anyone is interested!)for me to show something of the process I go through in painting a canvas. So the idea is to put up a daily photo of one works progress..the good the bad and the ugly! l would love to have your views as I go along ,if anyone is following

colour

2008-12-13T15:59:00.000Z

Why is it that you always seem to go for certain colours ? l love Alizarin crimson mixed with cadmium yellow ,it makes the most lovely pink -it attracts me ,it satisfies me ;but l don't know why..Prussian blue next to Indian red ..sap green mixed with alizarin crimson makes such a wonderful dark blackish green .A whole series of subjective choices,turn a painting into what it is ;it s a sort of random becoming ,a painting comes out of its self- a slow emergence,a very strange evolution .

man with a bird 2

2008-12-05T18:15:00.000Z

this is a painting l have been working on ,it s turned out as a series ,cant tell you what it s all about, this bird thing ,but it s coming from somewhere ,l guess this is why we need art critics ,they seem to know what s going on in the artists mind !!

2008-11-27T10:40:00.000Z

Some say thats it s portraits that l do best ..well here s one l did earlier !! just a week or so ago .My long time friend Dimitri ,what do you think ?

working towards a deadline

2008-11-26T16:12:00.000Z

lt s a good thing to have a deadline to work to every once in a while ..and l have to get 4 paintings ready for this friday .What s exciting is to see a little bit of joy turning up at last ...long may it last !

doing it is doing it

2008-11-21T19:43:00.001Z

l know this is a very untidy studio but l love this room more than any other . l do try to keep it tidy ,but when l get going it s just a while of creativeity and thats the way l like it

here comes another

2008-11-19T13:05:00.001Z

now for the colour and form

2008-11-19T12:33:00.000Z

second chance

2008-11-19T11:59:00.000Z

ok here we go again my second attempt at starting my blog the last one got lost in translation