acrylic 15x10cm
More of a currently-showing news event than a recent painting post...
This is a little sky sketch done out of the front room window a couple of months ago. It's been a while since I've done 'live sky' in real time, so I did a little batch of them. What's interesting about these were that I used acrylic paint, as opposed to the usual watercolour. It's 'Fluid' acrylic, and has the consistency of thin cream - unlike the thick 'toothpaste' of the more usual 'tube' acrylic - but has very high pigment density. It dries fast, can take rapid subsequent washes, and the white is so much more reliably white than gouache. Useful stuff...
The real meat of the post is that I've had a painting hung in the annual SSA* open show. It's 'Down to the River' - never been out the house before. This is one of the rare exhibitions where pieces don't have to be for sale, and it's there for display only.
The show is in the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) - the Greek building on Princes Street at the Mound – and is open to the public from now till Thursday 17th January. It's free to go in and wander round. It's a very varied exhibition of current Scottish artwork, sculpture, prints, installations etc, and definitely worth a look.
So, if you're in Edinburgh for Xmas, New Year, or just hanging around in a gloomy January way, you could good do a lot worse than popping into the RSA gallery and seeing what's what in contemporary art in sunny Scotland
* Society of Scottish Artists
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