Some new paintings

The Priest - Acrylic on Acrylic Paper

This painting is something I just did on the spur of the moment.














Self portrait - Acrylic on 60cm by 80 cm canvas

Another attempt at a self portrait painting, but on a larger scale, came out better than the others
though still needs improvement.














Cutting the cord - Acrylic on 24cm by 18cm canvas

Abstract painting i did yesterday, very pleased with how it came out















Magic Eyes - Acrylic on 12 inch by 16 inch canvas

Abstract painting I did today, again pleased with it.

Charcoal Drawings

I have recently started drawing with Charcoal, here is some of what I have produced over the last few days. All are portraits of people, as I am trying to improve my portraiture skills and capturing human form.

1st is a drawing of Julie driscoll, not really sure who she is I just saw a picture of her in a magizine I had and decided I want to draw her cos she looked quite mysterious and strange.

2nd is a drawing of John Lennon I did based on a picture from the same magizine.

And the last is a drawing of Albert Einstein.

I am quite happy with them all as by doing them and other drawings my skills at drawing the human form is improving steadily. I also have some other drawings to show but I shall wait till I have scanned them in to post them up here.

Organic Improvisation 2

2nd in the planned series of three organic improvisation
paintings.

This one was actually more improvised than the first as I created it without any sketches, so in a sense this is more trully improvised than the first painting.

I actually like this one quite a lot, it is preety simple in composition but I think its preety effective.

To me It looks very fluid and flowing, like shapes floating around somekind of metaphysical soup!

New Painting - Organic Improvisation 1

First of a planned series of three, this is called organic improvisation, calling them improvisation because I wanted to create a harmonius composition with each . This is so far the only one iv'e done , going to do two others some time in the near future.



< Heres the sketch













< And the final painting, changed a few things, intially was only going to have black and white as the colors but I changed my mind and decided to add some grey, yellow and red, to make it stand out a bit. Preety pleased with it overall.

An introduction..........

Hello, I am Chris Godber, a 22 year old self taught artist from the north
west of England. This is going to be my art blog, so I’ll write a bit about my art and
what it means to me, as well as what to expect from future posts.

Much of my work consists of abstract images and forms , and is usually in the form of acrylic
paintings on canvas. I make images that arise from my mind which are non-objective
and non-representative , at least not representative of anything in tangible reality.

Every painting is different of course though and this is not
the only kind of art I make, but it is my primary output. I like the freedom
that abstract art permits, in that an image or idea can be expressed in
any way the artist chooses, rather than having to conform to certain
principles and techniques to gain a look of realism , or to capture an image of the
outside world in a realistic manner. It is freedom for the mind and the imagination.

There is no esoteric philosophy behind any of my images, they are
what they are, a visual transcendent wordless poetry of sorts is how I like to think of them,
at least this is what I aim for (wherever this aim is achieved is another matter entirely)

I will elaborate further on my art and what it means to me, as well as maybe blab a bit
about some other art related stuff on this blog in the future, but for now I think this
will do for an introduction blog.

Here are some of my paintings, I will probably blog a bit about individual paintings later
on as well , explain what they mean to me, but for now I'll just show a few of them.

Unfolding - Acrylic on 60cm by 80cm canvas



















Winter Dreams - Oil on canvas














Incremental squares - Acrylic on 35.5cm by 35.5cm canvas














Ambient red Rectangle - Acrylic on 60 cm by 80 cm canvas