by Toni Watts | May 12, 2015 | Blog, Recent Work
This is a picture I’ve wanted to paint for years, since seeing Fra Angelico’s Annunciation at the Convent of San Marco in Florence. That is a fresco, and about two metres high – mine is just 17cm, and on paper. It’s done in the style of...
by Toni Watts | Mar 8, 2015 | Blog, Workshops and demonstrations
I’m delighted to have been asked to demonstrate traditional pigment extraction and paint making at the Fine Art Trade Guild ‘Making Pictures’ event in Coventry in July. It’s being held at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, so I’ll have...
by Toni Watts | Apr 9, 2014 | Blog, Materials and Techniques
I thought I would just update you all about the state of my verdigris pigment production. Well, the good news is that it’s going well so far. This photo was taken the first time I had the copper out of its pot. This was about a week after starting, and I was...
by Toni Watts | Apr 4, 2014 | Recent Work
The inspiration for this new painting ‘Waggle Dance’, came from a delicious British Library manuscript of a grumpy bear with bees…. The idea buzzed around in my head for a while (my husband...
by Toni Watts | Mar 25, 2014 | Blog, Materials and Techniques
Having learnt the techniques of extracting pigments from natural sources, I thought I would see if I could find stone locally that might give me a new colour. What stone did I use? Just along the road from us there was,...
