The Sunday Art Show - Stag with antlers and landscape painting demo

This week, I show you how to combine wet-in-wet watercolour style painting techniques with more traditional acrylic methods, using interactive acrylic for both, to create a painting of a stag with antlers in the English countryside. The finished painting "In My Prime" can be seen in hi-res here https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/stag-with-antlers-in-landscape-painting-mike-jory.html
Materials: Daler-Rowney mixed media paper, Winsor & Newton Watercolour marker (cerulean blue), synthetic brushes (flat and round), atelier interactive acrylics: permanent alizarin, french ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow deep, cadmium yellow light, burnt umber, titanium white

The Sunday Art Show - Landscape Artist of the Year 2019 behind the scenes

In this week's video, I show you a behind the scenes peak at being a wild card artist on Sky Arts, Landscape Artist of the Year 2019 - episode 1 - Smeaton's Tower, Plymouth.
You can see a hi-res version of my painting "Drake's Island after the Storm" here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/drakes-island-plymouth-devon-mike-jory.html
If you want to check out Rob Wilson's website, you can find that here: www.robwilsonart.co.uk
I start out by briefly going through the application process for the competition, then I describe my day, from being filmed, to painting en plein air, meeting famous artists and battling with rain storms. There were lots of possible subjects to paint, including battleships, sail boats, stormy skies, the sea, a lighthouse, grand buildings etc. I elected to paint the view across the water of Drakes Island. All in all, I had a fantastic day! Hope you enjoy the video.

The Sunday Art Show - pumpkin and carnival squash still life painting

'Autumn sunshine' see the hi-res version of the finished painting here https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/pumpkin-carnival-squash-and-autumn-leaves-still-life-painting-mike-jory.html
This still life painting of orange and blue pumpkins nestled against carnival squash on a bed of fallen autumn leaves was created using interactive acrylic on canvas. Materials used:
Atelier interactive acrylic: permanent alizarin, ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow light, titanium white, burnt umber, 20"x15" primed smooth canvas, synthetic flat and round brushes.

The Sunday Art Show - how to paint a hen

'Dominique in the sunlight' see the finished painting in hi-res here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/dominique-dominicker-hen-chicken-pilgrim-fowl-painting-mike-jory.html
This week, I show you how to create an acrylic painting of a dominiker hen also known as a dominique or pilgrim fowl. These black and white feathered chickens actually have quite a few subtle colours in their plumage that I've tried to capture. I used interactive acrylics for this chicken painting and this allowed me to readily apply thin watercolor-like washes and thicker layers to dinstinguish between bird and background.
Materials used: Daler-Rowney A2 mixed media paper, Atelier interactive acrylics: alizarin crimson, french ultramarine, cadmium yellow light, burnt umber, carbon black, titanium white, synthetic brushes (half inch and one inch flats, small round brush), water spray bottle

Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2019

Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to take place in the Plymouth heat of the Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2019 TV show. In the photo below, you can see acclaimed artist and judge, Tai Shan Schierenberg taking a look at my sketchbook. The episode airs on 15th October, not sure if I'll appear on screen but had an amazing day. I'll be posting a little behind the scenes video in the near future :-)

I'm taking part in this year's Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year!

This year, I took part in the Sky Arts, Landscape Artist of the Year 2019 TV show, the episodes start airing soon, here's the trailer...

Landscape Artist 2019 Promo for Social Media from Storyvault Films on Vimeo.

The Sunday Art Show - En Plein air watercolour cows and landscape painting

A bit late with the blog post this week, but here's the video that went up on the channel on Sunday
"Rust Reds at Rest" - you can see the finished painting in hi-res here
https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/four-red-poll-cattle-lying-down-in-field-watercolour-landscape-cow-en-plein-air-painting-mike-jory.html
This week, I show you a really quick and fun technique that combines en plein air sharpie pen sketching with en plein air watercolour painting to create a cows in  landscape impressionist painting with trees and hedges in the background. These rust red cattle, Red Poll breed were found in a field near Starcross in Devon.
Materials used: Daler-Rowney mixed media paper A4, black sharpie pen, Winsor & Newton watercolour set, round and flat synthetic brushes, Winsor and Newton field easel