Martin Kirkwood


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Martin Kirkwood
Age: 39
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Joined: Feb 2008

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

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Journal Entries

Even more bonkers than the last silly idea.

Posted 3 months ago, 15 comments so far.

Stark raving bonkers.

Posted 3 months ago, 8 comments so far.

Hey, I won a challenge.

Posted 5 months ago, 9 comments so far.

Apologies.

Posted 5 months ago, 3 comments so far.

I'm so excited!!!

Posted 7 months ago, 14 comments so far.

Weekly News from the Landscape Painting group (29th Oct 2008)

Posted 8 months ago.

Oooh I've just acquired a camera.

Posted 8 months ago, 5 comments so far.

Weekly News from the Landscape Painting group (22nd Oct 2008)

Posted 8 months ago.

How to upload a painting?

Posted 8 months ago, 6 comments so far.

Weekly News from the Landscape Painting group (15th Oct 2008)

Posted 8 months ago.

Writing

"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.

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"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.

Anatomy of an oil portrait. Work in progress.

I always start an oil portrait with an accurate pencil drawing applied directly to the canvas or panel. In this case I am using an HB pencil on a stretched linen canvas of 12×10 inches.

A Universal Truth? Work in Progress.

This started off as a rough sketch with a graphite pencil and acrylics paints.

A Trans-Atlantic Art Project.

While chatting to a great watercolourist friend in Florida, USA we came up with the idea of sharing creative ideas across the internet and seeing what each other could do with the others idea.

Watchlist

  • Christopher Pope
  • BackStage  at RB
  • Mike Glaysher
  • Katmosphere
  • Lynda Robinson
  • Cathy Amendola