Martin Kirkwood
Profile
Hi, I’m Martin from England, I’ve had no formal training and learnt mostly from countless trips to galleries and libraries.
Thanks for all your comments, they are very encouraging.
I’ve always had a love of painting and started off like many kids making a mess with wax crayons on walls. I got told off for it too.
My earliest attempts were trees, just green blobs on a brown stick until someone pointed out that trees are more complex. I started adding branches and started to look at things as they appear and not so much how they should appear.
I believe that anyone can draw and paint, they just need to learn how to see. I’m still learning.
I work in a variety of media including pencil, pastel and acrylic paints. My favourite medium however is oils.
You’ll find an assortment of my creations here including some digital collages. I’ve just acquired a new digital SLR. camera and you can click here to view my photography. I’m not very good but I am learning slowly.
Martin.
Oil Paintings
Acrylic Paintings
Pencil and Pastel Drawings
Digital Works
LINKS…
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Groups
Martin Kirkwood hosts Landscape Painting and is a member of 1 on 1: The Fine Art of Portraiture , NSFW, * Painted Ladies *, Complex Simplicity of Art, "Real" Life Artwork (No Photography), Abstract Realism, Acrylic Painting, All Around the Styles, All Out Emotion, Artrageous RB Artists - Self Portrait Gallery, British Painters, British Portrait Artists, Bubbler Portraits, Challenge Café, Contemporary Pastel Painters, Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Digital Art Compilations (No Nudity Allowed), Doodle Do, Fine Arts, Friends of RedBubble, Impressionist Art, Oil Painting, Painted Birds! , Painters In Modern Times, Pets and People, Realist Paintings About Water, Realist Traditional Art, Shameless Self-Promotion, The Artistic Nude, The Eyes Have It, United Kingdom, Wildlife and Pet Paintings, Woman Appreciation and Works On Paper.
Journal Entries
eFrame.co.uk A critical review.
Posted 3 months ago, 9 comments so far.
Even more bonkers than the last silly idea.
Posted 7 months ago, 15 comments so far.
Oooh I've just acquired a camera.
Posted about 1 year ago, 5 comments so far.
How to upload a painting?
Posted about 1 year ago, 7 comments so far.
Landscape Painting Group.
Posted about 1 year ago, 4 comments so far.
A Rubbish Collaboration.
Posted about 1 year ago, 13 comments so far.
Art
Writing
"MJ" A virtual love story.
It took me a while to pluck up the courage to ask a total stranger on the other side of the Atlantic if I could use her pictures for a painting. I’m so glad i did.
"Laura" a work in progress.
As someone kindly pointed out to me in the forums here an accurate drawing is the foundation for any successful realist oil painting. I also like to plot the main shadows directly onto canvas with an …
Finally unfinished. "It's not over." A work in progress.
OIl on 300gsm Windsor and Newton Galleria paper 210mm x 297mm I’m not sure I can portray this amazing young woman on paper but I’ll give it a try…. This might take some…
"Kerry" Work in Progress.
This started off as what was intended to be a loose oil painting…. / I first primed a sheet of 120lb Windsor and Newton Galleria textured paper on both sides with a household acrylic primer …
"The Magic Carpet": Work in progress.
This content is not visible because the safe filter is on."In the Shadows" Finally Finished
Ok, so some purist oil painters may shudder at the thought of using acrylic paint as an under painting for oils.
