Artist West Wales

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New Zealand

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Hi there folks,
Long time no see. I have been on my travels as you will see from my updated website. This time New Zealand where I spent a month attending my brother’s wedding and doing a road trip around the North Island. Amazing. I was fascinated by the houses there and did several illustrations for you to see.
 
On my return, I went to London where I took photographs for some exciting acrylic paintings of London views.
 
Since my return, I  have been contacted by MEGAART in Rome and am sending CWLBOX one of my original prints for exhibition there. I also have three exhibitions in West Wales happening soon. One from 12th May at Dockside art gallery with some especially commissioned prints of Pembroke Dock. Another at The Torch Theatre and cinema in Milford Haven from 1st June to 30th June and finally from 6th July to
31st July at the Heritage centre in Llantwryd Wells near Brecon. I also have some paintings there during June where I am participating in a competition with a £500 prize for the winner. Wish me luck.
 
Lizzie
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Blog Nine

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Seasons Greetings

Seasons greetings with these two paintings I have made into greetings cards with ‘Nadolig Llawen’ Merry Xmas in Welsh on them. Taken from two Welsh landscapes “Garden’ and  ‘Ode to a Grecian Urn’ which was based on a landscape in Colby gardens. Although not strictly Xmas scenes I thought there was a jollity about them and the white cascade of flowers could be seen as snow.

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Blog Eight

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Abstract digital landscapes after a walk to Dale Peninsula, W Wales

Two digital landscapes today, Dale Peninsula and Welsh landscape echoing the colder less clement weather. I have tried to capture the effect of the wind on the clouds and the unusual colour of the rocks and sand in the peculiar Pembrokeshire light.

Another of my abstract landscapes, this time in acrylics, can be found at the  Oriel Q Narberth, Annual auction to raise funds for the upkeep of the gallery which is a not for profit local gallery run by volunteers.

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Blog Seven

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Abstract digital landscapes after a walk to Marloes Sands, W Wales.

These three Welsh landscapes, Marloes Fields 1 and 2 and Marloes beach have a more abstract feel to them and painted in a slightly muted palette with a bit of ‘pop’. I am reminded that we are but blips in the scheme of things like these passing clouds but I guess it’s important to make the most of our brief time on this planet.

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View from atlantic hotel

Blog six

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Meeting at Urban Thinkscape to paint murals and kiddies play areas in Tenby.

Meeting was successful. We have managed to get a £5,000 grant to create learning areas for children.  We have to follow a scheme but outside of that we can do what we like. I plan to paint a Rousseau like mural based on my acrylic painting ‘View from Atlantic Hotel’, which itself was based on photographs of the foliage opposite the hotel in Tenby.  Like most of my town paintings it has an urban feel to it and I like to show the nature that is all around us and goes unnoticed as we go about our daily lives in my townscapes. The climate is very mild here and we have tropical foliage including palm trees growing abundantly. The Welsh Riviera!

View from atlantic hotel
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Blog five

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Some figurative paintings after a Walk to Colby Gardens

Nothing much to write this week as I have an artist and writer’s block. Someone said throw a shark in but I don’t have one handy.

Just jogged my creative juices with a walk to Colby gardens. Took some photos for prints and had a lovely picnic at Wiseman’s Bridge back in my car. It’s too lovely a day to stay in the house. I have painted some digital landscapes; Colby gardens, Colby Walk and Colby café inspired by the Welsh views there. They have a contemporary feel and I have managed to get figurative too. Now,  back home in Tenby and I’m going to have the remainder of my picnic and some leek and potato soup from the veggie box. Seems like the summer is just going on and on. I’m not complaining. Lovely weather for photos.

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Colby cafe
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Blog four

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BLOG WEEK FOUR

Had a brainwave this morning. I was running out of inspiration for my paintings and felt that I need to move to London for a change but then realised I could just spend a week there, get loads of photographs and come back here and paint them and try and sell them in an online London art gallery. Meanwhile, I have been inspired by a vase of gladioli that I got free from the food hub in Tenby. The flowers are gradually opening so I intend to do a few studies over the next few days. If it works, I’ll upload them here. Oh yeah, I nearly forgot. I got an unexpected phone call today telling me that the introduction to photoshop course is happening after all. I hope I can improvise with the programme I already have as I can’t now afford to buy photoshop but I’m sure Edpixle is adaptable. Fingers crossed.

I’m off to the hub again to meet a group of artists to create murals and scapes for a children’s play area which should be fun AND I’m getting paid!!!!

I would like to start a Beryl Cook appreciation society and gain signature to have the art establishment officially recognise her. She did sell a lot of paintings in her lifetime but is seen as a popular artist because of the nature of her settings, namely fat people in bars and bowling greens for example but there is so much technique and humour, and as a friend pointed out the vibrant colour in her art.  Her work is very similar to that of an internationally recognised Columbian painter called Botero. Methinks it might have something to do with her being a woman?

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Blog Two

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My motivation this week has been mostly pecuniary. In that I photographed and digitally rendered the above illustrations of local houses with the sole aim of ‘hawking my wares’ and knocking on their doors in order to make a sale. Don’t try this at home as once the occupant of the house gets out from behind the curtains and answers the door, they don’t like being accosted in this way and it certainly doesn’t lead to a sale. However, I enjoyed painting the houses and found the interpretation of  the windows challenging and have ended up with an aesthetically pleasing result.

Another gruelling week applying for membership of a craft collective. ‘Develop your work’ ‘make it your own’. I wish I knew what they meant. I am developing my work all the time and I think it’s unique,  and get a bit disheartened when rejected.

To end on a happy note, I sold an original print at  Oriel Q gallery in Narberth and some cards at a pop-up exhibition in Pembroke this week.. So, all is not lost. Winters approaching with lots of photo opportunities of stunning landscapes here in West Wales.

The Queen of England died yesterday and the world is in mourning. I have made a slight change in my painting and produced a blueprint for a pencil and watercolour of Pembroke main street in the rain. I very much like urban landscapes and find the most mundane scenes have their own beauty.

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Blog One

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Hi there

Let me introduce myself. I am Lizzie Tobin artist, which you will already know if you’ve got this far. I thought I’d let you have an insight into how I go about producing a digital painting to make into a print which, if all goes well, I will be able to sell. I am not one of those artists who think you should just paint for pleasure, although it is pleasurable. I mean artists have overheads. Even to produce one digital print, and I do not reproduce them interminably, I limit them to editions of ten or one off original prints, I have to pay for a broadband connection, a phone contract-I take photos on my phone and upload them to Google Drive after I have made a detailed sketch. I then upload this to my digital programme. I use a free package called Epixlr which I was kindly given at art college. It has all the basic requirements. I would like to experiment more but won’t at this point go into the frustrations of applying for college courses in Pembrokeshire where I live. I then colour in the sketch using the digital palette, which I find strangely appealing in its simplicity and uniformity of colour and tone. I then upload the image to my files and send it to a professional printer.

That’s all for today guys. I will be updating you on my progress as I am investing in online assistance to promote my art and trying to increase my social media following. Thanks for reading.

Lizzie

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