This page contains paintings and other artwork done since 2015. I have indicated which paintings were done in London. I decided to try painting without any lessons when I got to London (which drove Judie crazy) and I gradually got better. It is possible to see the progression by plowing through my London blog, nickinshoreditch.com. The paintings here are not in any order, at least not yet.
To see earlier artwork, click here. To see some designs from back when Nick was doing more graphic designs, click here. To see selected sketchbook works from the Art and Soul website, click here.
I did this over the course of about a week in January or February 2021. My sister-in-law, Linda, and I had been exchanging emails about Australian indigenous art (formerly called Aboriginal Art) and she sent me a video about creating dot paintings using Q-tips. So I tried it, given my love of this art form. It is pretty time consuming (and Q-tip consuming). I call this “The Snake Clan Meets by the River”.This a painting of a castle on a little island right near the bridge to the Isle of Skye in Scotland. If you have ever been to the Isle of Skye since they built the bridge, you certainly took a picture of this scene. On a whim, I bought a 15×30 canvas and this seemed to fit. This was torture to complete. I could never get the castle right, mainly because I didn’t have the skill or patience to do the tiny brushwork. I was close to giving up when I realized that I could get the necessary effect using Sharpies.This is one I started shortly after a trip to Martha’s Vineyard in July 2020. It is based on a nice photo of these really scenic kayaks and canoes on the walk down to the beach from where we were staying. It was bit of a grind, because the canoes where hard to get, so I kept quitting and them coming back to it. I finally deemed it complete around January 2021.
This was a long-term project I conceived to use up my acrylic paint on the palette. I would smear the paint on to this 24×36 canvas, creating layers. I would then occasionally sand the whole thing down with an orbital sander, exposing some of the lower layers. This continued for at least six months until January 2021, when I decided that the whole thing worked.
“Hilma Meets Mary”: A 2019 painting inspired by an amazing Guggenheim retrospective of the work of Hilma Af Klint. I decided it needed something both to finish it off and to make it more Hilma-like, so I added the quotations from Mary Oliver.
This is a painting from 2020. It is 16×20 and was done in acrylics. It is loosely based on a photo of a garden in London.
This is part of a close-up series I did at one point. Some closeups are in A&S Sketchbooks.
Loosely based on a Walla Walla vista while wine-tasting.
This was part of a project my Art & Soul Covenant group did. We got photos of poor Peruvian kids and had to come up with a painting or some other artwork that would then be given to the kid with a note from the artist.
This is a fairly large painting, done over something I wasn’t crazy about and won’t miss. I took acrylic paint, thinned it with an additive and then dropped it on the canvas from about shoulder level, so there was some control, but not much. I wasn’t sure whether it should be ver
This is part of my close-up series. It is an abstract that is also the corner of a London bus.
Paintings From London
London Painting Series: Isle of Skye in Scotland. Great trip and lots of painting possibilities.
The Talisker Distillery on the Isle of Skye.
London Painting Series: It started out as a standard painting of Kedainai, the town in Lithuania where Judie’s mother was born. But it was brownish and boring and it ended up this way.
London Painting Series: based on a photo of Martha’s Vineyard by Nancy Prince. On of my favorites from the time in London.
London Painting Series: This is the first (and currently only) painting that I have sold. It is based on a not very typical Monet painting I saw in Paris.
London Painting Series: Isle of Skye scene painted after going to a Georgia O’Keefe retrospective at Tate Modern. I think that O’Keefe effect would be easier to do with oil, but this is acrylic.
London Painting Series: After going to the Royal Academy to see a show of David Hockney portraits, I decided to try painting portraits. It’s hard.
London Painting Series: Hyde Park
Trooping the Colors. A yearly event at which all of the Queen’s Guards and other military groups in silly costumes march and present themselves to the Queen. We went to one of the rehearsals with Robbie and Bob when they visited.
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