Chris Chalk Art. West Wales Artist.

Tiger - started 30th April 2008.

Stage one.

This a slightly bigger painting than usuall and also in a portrait rather than landscape style. It's on a 20 by 16 inch canvas. At the moment it looks a bit like a demented Bear, but it'll come together as I get into it.

Stage two.

Now,  as I added colour I've adjusted the shapes and corrected the previous turpsy drawing. There's still lots of adjustment to do as I go along though. I'll continue as you can see here, working on the whole painting at once and moving from area to area so as not to get bogged down on one particular part of the painting.

Stage three.

I've made quite a lot of adjustments as I've gone on with this painting. Moving bit around like the ears and eyes, I've also thinned him down a bit after realising I'd made him too stocky. He's coming along though.

Stage four.

You can see I've worked on the background now. I've worked a little more on the tiger as well. Adding some whites and oranges, but I'll begin refining him up in my next session.

Stage five.

Some more work over everthing here now. I've darkened the background a touch, lenthened the front legs and adjusted the head. I also begun to highlight a few areas on the left side, where the sunlight is coming from.

Ford - Started 19th April 2008.

Stage one.

Here are my very first moves for my next painting. A big brush, some turpsy paint in roughly the right colour, and then I've just banged on the general layout. Getting the feel of what I want. Adjusting the position of the big areas untill I'm happy before putting stronger colour in.

Stage two.

I'm begining to get a better idea of this painting now. Strengthening up the colours and moving bits around as I go.

Stage three.

Here is the next stage then. This is quite a busy painting actually as there is lots of fauna to get to grips with and lots of different colours too. I'm Putting in as little as I think I can get away with really. It's still quite rough at the moment, but the next stage is to pull it all together more and add some finer detail.

Stage four.

Now I've put some finer detailing in it's begining to get a little more depth. I love this stage of a painting where it all starts to come together as you place in the little touches that magic it up a bit. 

Cei Bach - Started 2nd April 2008.

Stage one.

Cei Bach (meaning - little quay) is a favourite spot of mine and where we used to go as kids. It's about 5 or 6 miles north of Cardigan. For this painting I'm using a piece of hardboard as a surface. I've prepared it with a coat of gesso plus texture paste to add a little roughness to the surface.

Stage two.

I've worked on the whole painting some more here. Darkening up the upper part of the sky and lower part of the foreground too, as if to frame the lighter centre beach and path area. I'm going to leave this painting with quite a loose feel to it eventually, so I mustn't tidy it up too much.

Final stage.

So this is the finished painting then. I darkened up the bottom right corner a touch, and infact, the whole bottom area somewhat to highlight the middle area that I wanted to be the main point of interest. I also put in the skeletal tree in the middle right distance, the rock shadows and the Gannets (birds) on the left. The whole painting has been kept quite loose and I resisted the temptation to tidy up to much.