Painting with acrylics

I started painting again (i've hardly done any art since school) last January. At that time, our white walls were in dire need of some photos/paintings. While walking around the sale section of one of the home decoration chains, disenchanted with everything we saw, Dan says to me 'you said you'd like to paint, why don't you make something?'

So I gave it a go and it actually worked well, some paintings look decent enough to hang in the living room. What i've learned so far is that painting... is incredibly relaxing! And very rewarding once you start decorating your house with your own work.

I thought it is a good idea to start reproducing paintings I like, so i can learn the technique, and it has been working really well. It will be a while till i gather the courage to design a painting on my own :)

I actually started with watercolours (see an example on the 'About' page of the blog), but i found acrylics to be far more suitable for beginners. They dry fast and have great covering power, so you can easily cover any mistakes. Here are some examples of what I've done so far:

This is a loose reproduction of 'Thin ice' by Paul Burnsall, a British naive painter.


















And this one is inspired by Bela Ivanyi-Gruwald's 'Drying clothes' (1903)