Showing posts with label acrylic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acrylic. Show all posts

Saturday, March 02, 2019

"Flower of Passion" by Lynda Cookson

I love this abstract flower. It's got the Wow! factor ... the Zing! factor .... the works! LOL It cannot help but be the most exciting conversation piece.

"Flower of Passion" was created as a small acrylic pour painting with a few design techniques thrown in ... using a straw and lots of "hope that it'll settle well". It did.

The original painting is available here:   CLICK HERE
or
Available here as an instant digital image download for you to print to whatever size suits your home:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/673443616/flower-of-passion-instant-digital-image?ref=notif_nfyfs




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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Open Studio

Living in such a small space as we do now in our "old age"... (Okay, I should remove those inverted commas around "old age" because although I don't feel it, I think one of us in our mid sixties and the other in his early seventies, is actually considered being in your old age. Sigh.)

To finish that first sentence about a small living space, I've sorted all my work which can either be sold or given away, and set it all out in our motorhome! It's become my Open Studio even although it serves as our only car as well. We don't go out much in summer - too hot for both me and Bridie the German Shepherd - so why not?

My acrylic abstract pendants are there, along with glass painted tea light holders, mini paintings on mini easels, abstract acrylic vases, mountboarded paintings and framed paintings. The whole shebang.

Now to make myself a sign.

These are a couple of the paintings, and some of the pendants, on show there.

 "Blue Headed Red Breasted Bird" oil on
mini deep edge canvas with silver leaf

"Toadstools" mini oil painting on wood with gold glitter glue 

Abstract seascape pendant. Acrylic 

 Abstract landscape pendant. Acrylic

Owl Pendants

My art website  :  https://lyndacookson.blogspot.fr/


Thursday, March 29, 2018

Mirror Frame

I poured acrylics on an old frame yesterday, hoping to upcycle it for a framed mirror.

I loved how it turned out on Day 1 .... BUT with acrylic pouring, whilst the paint dries sufficiently over the next 24 hours, there is a nail-biting period of watching and waiting to see if the paint moves drastically from how you want it to be, to how it wants to be!

My prayer for those hours was "Please stay like this. Please stay like this. Please stay like this." LOL

This is how it was immediately I had finished pouring and manipulating the paint to where I wanted it to be.


I resisted waking up in the middle of the night to check on its progress but do admit to rushing through first thing in the morning to gawp at what had happened, or not happened, during the night.

To my delight there wasn't much movement of paint, only a sinking in and drying. Even although I had gesso-ed the surface of the frame - twice, I think - a lot of the moisture of the paint had sunk in. It ended up giving it a great look though because the grain of the wood shows through as an embossed pattern and I love it!

Here it is as dry as it can be the next morning.


Hardly any difference, just the colour fading very slightly, but I'm not worried about that. As soon as it's dry enough and "cured" enough, I'll gloss it again with a couple of coats of varnish. Voila!



Friday, March 02, 2018

"Red Sail" by Lynda Cookson

Last day of the 30 day challenge. Thank you so much everyone out there for putting up with me on a daily basis this past month ... your lovely comments and patience have been very appreciated. I know that if I hadn't put it out there for public viewing every day, I wouldn't have learned nearly as much as I did.

Halfway through I felt quite drained with it but got past that and may even do it again on an annual basis. Who knows :-)

Painting no. 30 in the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge
"Red Sail"
Acrylic on Paper
5.5" x 11" (17 cm x 28 cm)

"Red Sail" by Lynda Cookson




Tuesday, February 06, 2018

Another medium today for the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge


Another medium today for the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge - acrylic pouring on a craft vase. It's upside down and perched on an apple cider vinegar bottle as that's how it was supported during pouring and it needs to be at least touch-dry before I move it.

Painting no. 6 of 30

"There's Gold Beneath"
Acrylic on Craft Vase

"There's Gold Beneath"

My website :

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Pair of Petunias

It's amazing how often a palette knife is picked up and used during the creation of mixed-tool paintings.

"Petunia Pair" - which is now being exhibited by The Gaslamp Gallery in Gorey, Co. Wexford, Ireland - is just such an example. The white background was spread with my favourite palette knife and bits and parts of the flowers were encouraged into place using that same palette knife ... and the other tools are a mystery! LOL Simply because I can't remember what I used!!

So often a painting is created while I'm in a sort of arty farty daze, instinctively using whatever medium or tool is necessary to create the final effect ... and, like a chef who doesn't use a recipe, it's hard to remember what was used, when someone asks at the end of the process!

You can access The Gaslamp Gallery website here: http://www.thegaslampgallery.com/
(You won't find my paintings up on the gallery at the moment as they are being held back for a Spring launching ... but they're there ... just ask!)


"Pair of Petunias" by Lynda Cookson





Sunday, September 03, 2017

Acrylic Abstracts

Yay! I busted the painting mojo barrier this morning!

I've been battling to paint for a while so took the bull by the horns and did what I know I absolutely love the best ... abstract!

I find abstract sometimes rebellious, unpredictable, an excitement which constantly holds your attention, and a genre which tickles your imagination with the biggest feather available! So many exclamation marks in this post ... but my enthusiasm and pleasure is bursting today!









Tuesday, January 10, 2017

"Breaking Through"

"Breaking Through" ... I love this abstract. I can feel the sun, the warmth of that sun, a warm evening sky, the sea, and the white foam of the waves.

A residency at the restored stone cottage famine village of Cill Rialaig, near Ballinskelligs in Co Kerry, Ireland, was the inspiration for this acrylic on board. The strong winter wind whipped the foam from the top of the waves and blew it against the cliffs. That, together with the sense of all the ancient (and not so ancient) lives lived there created a very spiritual atmosphere. Absolutely wonderful weather and wonderful inspiration!

"Breaking Through" is for sale HERE ... or just click the image and you'll be taken through to the correct page where you'll find the price and the size of the painting.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Breaking-Through-Abstract-Acrylic-Painting-on-Board-Contemporary-Artist-Europe-/291994331515?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

http://stores.ebay.com/thepainterspaletteoriginalar

Friday, April 05, 2013

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Recent sales from The Ladies Buttery in Cong, Co Mayo


Edge of the Bog

Acrylic on board

SOLD - with thanks to Robert Devereau of "The Ladies Buttery" in Cong, Co Mayo.

And then ........

A couple of months ago, Robert ("The Ladies Buttery" in Cong, Co Mayo) also sold this painting of mine:

Windy Field of Daisies

Acrylic on paper

SOLD - with thanks to Robert Devereau of "The Ladies Buttery" in Cong, Co Mayo.

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

My latest sale from my home gallery




















My latest sale from my home gallery. It's one of the M&M Milkshake abstracts, part of the abstract collection I developed while designing the logo for the 'Art in the West' exhibition in Galway in June 2005. It's mirror-image sister is still in the gallery.
Sale Price : Euro120
Size : A5 (half A4 or foolscap)

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Summer Field


'Summer Field'
Digital image available for sale in various formats on
www.artocracy.org

This image sold as a PDF file to a Canadian company who used the whole image and parts of the image throughout their recent quarterly broadcast - published as hard copy.

To check out my other digital images for sale on the site please click on the link below and then click to view the aritsts list where you will find my name under the 'L' for Lynda :

www.artocracy.org