The last while I have been doing more portraits in pencil than I have been painting and there are more portraits to come. I’m not complaining, as I am thoroughly enjoying the process. I have posted these with the photographs supplied to me by the subjects Mum’s (with permission of course). Photographic source material Pencil…
Author: artbyeileen
I am a South African born artist, who has lived in 5 different countries in the last 20 years. I returned to South Africa in 2016 and I am now living in St Lucia, a small tropical village on the shores of the Indian Ocean. My rather unusual life experiences and travels have influenced my style and choice of subject matter. The rich desert colours, the vibrancy of the tropical flowers, all my paintings communicate my connection to the land and nature. Flowers are my main subject and I am inspired by layerings of colour, be it bright and ebullient, or understated and muted. Colour can evoke so many different responses in someone and my paintings speak to their viewer through their movement, colour and texture. Painting is my way of sharing the pleasure I derive from the beauty that surrounds me in nature and especially the flowers I so loves to paint. An ability to communicate all of this through granular sculptural textures, three dimensional application of paint and striking use of colour makes my art work bold and engaging.
More portraits…
Just before Christmas I was busy with portraits for various gifts and commissions for gifts. Some I could post and some I couldn’t. Here are the ones that could only be posted after the gifts had been dispatched and opened. I had so much fun doing them. And my challenge for 2015… Is translating sketches…
Golden Delicious
This was an exercise in creating a shape from developing the light and shade to build the form of the apple. For the coloured ground (the yellow under painting I apply to the white canvas before I draw on the shape and begin painting) I used the following: Yellow ochre Cadmium yellow light For the…
More botanicals
A recent commission. I will never get tired of being asked to draw flowers. I love them, and I loved drawing these three. They have to be among my favourtite flowers so I was excited to have an excuse to draw them too! Hopefully they have found a happy home back in Ireland. Magnolia Pencil…
In Flanders Fields…… 11/11
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In…
Portraiture Challenge
School was probably the last time I drew a face with any degree of seriousness, and that was 3 plus decades ago at the very least! About a month ago I decided to give it another try. I have always been fascinated by faces, how different light affects the expression and how to use tonal variances…
A first attempt at portraiture
For a while now I have been wanting to try my hand at portraiture, but fear has consistently got in the way. I can draw a face, I wasn’t too worried about that… It was making the face look like the person that I was drawing that I was terrified of not getting right! I…
More botanicals
I was commissioned to draw some of my favourite flowers for a home in Wales… I love drawing flowers. They inspire me and are always food for my soul so I am always a little sad when the commission is complete and I have to hand the drawings over to the client. Some are harder…
Faux headboards and associated trickery
For years now I have been looking for a headboard. I wasn’t very keen on some of the more solid things I have found for sale at places like ‘The One’ or ‘The Marina’ and the more ornately local flavoured decor didn’t particularly appeal to me either. Then Phil found something he thought I might…
Yellow Daffodil
Another commission for a daffodil….. It would seem as the summer draws to a close and cold winters loom on the horizon, people are already looking forward to seeing the wild daffodils in the midst of their spring bloom. When I think of yellow I think of my favourite poem by Wordsworth ‘I wandered Lonely…
A Knights Tale
Living with a creative person who paints for a living my family just assume I can paint anything! I cant, but I’m learning fast! A while back I was asked by my son to draw a spaceship he had built for the game EVE Online that he was an avid player of. I am not…
Daffodil
A commission for a Welsh lady living in the UAE who misses the wild daffodils growing in the Welsh countryside back home…. Palette: Titanium white, Burnt Umber, Cadmium yellow light, Cadmium orange, Cadmium red light, Hansa Yellow orange, cadmium lemon, phthalo blue (green shade), burnt sienna and greengold. Daffodil Acrylic on stretched canvas 40cm X…
