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Novels, poetry, history and a range of subjects all attract his interest. Mark says that, while wanting to honour and pay tribute to the original jacket designers and their unquestionable talents, his paintings are portraits of some very old, well-loved books, the way they are now. This method of applying colour has some important advantages over the traditional method of mixing colours with an opaque base. Between glazes, the painting is lightly sanded, giving the finished painting a beautifully smooth, glossy surface.
The technique is time-consuming as it’s essential that each glaze is allowed to dry thoroughly before the next is applied. Each new glaze changes the optical qualities of the layers beneath, resulting in a richness and purity of colour that is otherwise very hard to achieve. Once fully dry, it is painted over with successive layers of transparent colour known as ‘glazes’. Mark’s current collection of rare book and magazine art generally begins with a monochrome under-painting, usually in shades of grey or ochre, on a white surface.
Having graduated, Mark became a member of the Society of Illustrators, Artists and Designers followed by 33 years as a full-time artist and illustrator, producing work for numerous national and international publishers, advertising agencies and galleries. Mark Payne studied technical and scientific illustration for four years.
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