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BBC news French and Cher

21st December 2010

Areas: sketches

Preferring to stay in last night I sketched items from the news (mostly about the snow) followed by Graham Norton’s interview with Dawn French and Cher.

BBC news reports mainly about snow. Main face in middle taken from a passanger waiting in the airport.. © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reservedFollowing a Northern Irish news item (person at top) Graham Norton had Dawn French and Cher as his main guests.. © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reserved

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Christmas cards

16th December 2010

Areas: paintings sketches

For the past few years I have been creating email Christmas cards to send to my clients and friends. I’ve included this year and past two years below.

Merry Christmas!!

Christmas e-card 2010, a Christmas robin.. © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reservedChristmas e-card 2009, discovering the massive saving of Christmas.. © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reservedChristmas e-card 2008, the perfect Christmas Gift.. © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reserved

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Making of: White wolf studio shoes

8th December 2010

Areas: making of paintings textiles

I've had quite a few people ask me how I went about painting my white wolf studio shoes. Hopefully to empower you to make your own I have created the following small step-by-step of how I created the shoes.

Materials: system 3 acrylics (ultramarine blue, cadmium red, cadmium yellow, raw sienna and titanium white), Liquitex acrylic fabric medium, acrylic ink and brushes. I wasn’t too concerned on which fabric medium to use as the shoes couldn’t be washed and therefore didn’t need to be heat-sealed.. © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reservedStep 1: Priming the shoes. Like a canvas the shoes needed to be primed with a 50:50 mix of titanium white and fabric medium to allow the paint applied later on to flow easily. Before priming I packed some paper into the shoes to make it easier to paint onto and keep their shape. Note that whilst I primed the whole shoe you only really need to prime the area(s) you intend to paint on. . © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reservedStep 2: Under painting. Once the shoes were dry I mixed up a nice orange using the cadmium yellow, a dash of cadmium red and raw sienna, then added an equal amount of fabric medium. . © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reservedStep 3: Painting. At this stage I just started to mark out the trees based on my previous painting http://blog.davidcreative.co.uk/index.php?page=1&postID=37<Autumn Orange>. Talking into account that each shoe had to work on it’s own and as a pair. . © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reservedStep 4: Painting. When I started to get into adding detail, as there were so many colours I decided to use the fabric medium as an extra paint dipping into it when mixing each colour. . © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reservedStep 5: Changes. I wasn’t happy with the tree in the foreground on the right shoe so I blanked it out and moved it to the left shoe. To blank anything out I used some titanium white mixed in with the orange colour. I’ve found that the white makes the mixture a lot more opaque. . © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reservedStep 6: Additions. Pleased with the forest scene I decided I needed something white to stretch over the two shoes. Initially I considered a rabbit but felt an elongated wolf may work better winding its way through the trees. In this picture I’ve just laid down the basic shape of the wolf. I felt that the position of the wolf was too near the bottom and so to lift the body I twisted it round the tree. . © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reservedStep 7: Changes. Now happy with the composition I blocked out the white using the same method as in step 5. I also noticed a ridge of excess white acrylic on the left hand side of the right shoe (this was due to not enough fabric medium being mixed in); this was removed using some light sand paper then painted again. . © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reservedStep 8: Last additions. Happy with the shape of the wolf I added legs and added texture to the area blanked out in step 5. . © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reservedStep 9: Final shoes. The detail was added using black acrylic ink and a fine watercolour brush. . © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reserved

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White wolf studio shoes

3rd December 2010

Areas: paintings textiles

This personal project grew out of a desire to have a pair of light slip on shoes to wear in my studio.

Encouraged by the vibrant colour in a recent painting of mine autumn orange I thought the same painting would work well as a design on a pair of white canvas pumps with the addition of a white wolf sneaking around the trees.

Final "white wolf" studio shoes. © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reserved"White wolf" studio shoes detail. © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reserved"White wolf" studio shoes detail. © Copyright David McClelland 2010. All rights reserved

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