{"id":640,"date":"2023-07-17T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2023-09-08T18:57:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T17:57:14","slug":"rupert-aker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/techniques\/rupert-aker\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Aker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Guild monthly meeting for July 2023 saw a eager group of members and guests gathered for demonstration of palette knife painting in oils by Painswick based artist Rupert Aker https:\/\/rupertaker.art\/<\/a>. Rupert’s demonstration was mesmerizing as he deftly created not one, not two, but, yes, three complete paintings during the two hour meeting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rupert began with an introduction of himself and his materials. He explained how he started out hiring village halls for a couple of hours at a time and mounting exhibitions using 12 or so easels, publicising the events by means of leaflets. After successes at this he eventually got picked up by a number of galleries. Rupert is a landscape painter using oil paints and palette knife he creates impressionist paintings, he works directly from nature where possible. Larger paintings are then worked up in his studio – \u2018The Loovre\u2019  in the old public toilets in Painswick. Rupert explained his limited palette which, for the evening, included a litre tin of titanium white and tubes of W&N prussian blue, sap green, yellow ochre, lemon yellow, alizarin and burnt umber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rupert’s first demo was a very large painting on canvas of a landscape featuring large straw roll bales. Beginning with the sky, prussian blue and large amounts of white, applied with a large palette knife mixing on the canvas. Next a distant landscape suggesting fields and hedgerows, to the foreground and straw bales. Rupert’s style was indeed loose and impressionistic and the finished effect very impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rupert moved on to a slightly smaller canvas for his second demo which was a view of his home town of Painswick nestled on the hillside in evening light. Rupert observed how the same palette of colours can be varied to produce a warm toned painting as in the first demo, or to convey cooler tones as in the second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rupert’s final painting of the evening moved us to the coast for a depiction of dramatic cliffs on a natural coloured canvas primed with a clear gesso. The scene was brought forth with broad slabs of colour applied with Rupert’s palette knife – so much suggested to the viewer in the bold abstract marks. My favourite of the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our next members only meeting on Monday 21st August will be an opportunity to reflect on Rupert’s demo and try wielding a palette knife ourselves, hopefully many of you will come along!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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