Energy, Concentration and Commitment
Working back into a painting is a great way to learn about your process. Putting your work up on your wall and living with it for a while allows you to identify what you enjoy about it as well as what you think is missing. Sometimes it might be a few areas that are a bit flat and that need perking up. In this instance, I felt that my work still needed something – best summed up in that phrase ‘a bit of welly’.
Here are three of my Lanark drawings and one of New Lanark. The images below show their iterations from lockdown left to summer freedom on the right where the rainbow window posters have disappeared giving way to a townscape basking under bright summer skies.
These compositions began as line drawings and took on shape with colour and tone. I wrote about working into them on a previous post here, but it wasn’t long before I wanted to further strengthen the colours and bring in more of the summer skies.
In ‘Provosts Lamp’ below, there were a couple of little things I wanted to change. See if you can spot the differences…
The Provost’s Lamp is situated outside the Tolbooth Lanark where the Christmas pop-up shop is held. I’d like to pause here for a moment and remember one of the volunteers at the Tolbooth and founder member of ‘Lanark in Bloom’.
I would like to acknowledge the recent passing of Ernest Romer, seated above on the left, with his friend Tom. Here they both are in the Tolbooth, sketched on Friday 6th December 2019. He was a well-loved Lanark gentleman and my condolences to his family and friends.
The Christmas pop-up shop opens Monday 13th December 2023 until 6th January 2024. If you are in the area, please call in and have a look around – it will be filled with handmade goodies from many local creators along with all of the paintings above.
As always,
Thanks for reading,
Ronnie 🙂