At about the time I decided I needed to improve my drawing skills I started becoming discontented with our en suite bathroom. We travel a fair amount, and seeing this is the 5th country we have lived in, and it is unlikely we will settle here the house we live in is rented. It is…
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.
Abstract reflections
This was a study of a stainless steel goblet. It had a highly reflective silver surface which captured the light and abstract shapes reflected in it beautifully. It was done with a very limited palette on canvas with a neutral grey ground colour. Colours used: •Titanium white •Burnt umber •Ultramarine blue •Mars black •Burnt sienna…
2nd RAK Fine Arts Festival 2014
This weekend heralded in the 2nd RAK Fine Arts Festival starting with a gala event hosted in the Banyan Tree al Wadi. It was a perfect spring evening (just right temps, and not too hot yet) in an idyllic setting in the desert just outside Ras al Khaimah. The official grand opening where all the…
A toast…
This small glass study was undertaken with the idea of learning to deal with reflective surfaces and coloured glass and how the use of layers of paint and glazes can give a more sophisticated ‘old master’ feel to the work. Colours used: •Titanium white •Burnt umber •Ultramarine blue •Mars black •Burnt sienna •Raw sienna •Yellow…
The joys of a ‘sta-wet’ palette
Phil gave me a Masterson “Sta-wet” palette for Christmas. I have always just worked on a glass mixing surface I had cut, which I scrape clean with a scraper when the paint is dry. However living in this part of the world where laundry dries before it is even hung on the line I find…
A colour challenge
These three paintings revolve around mastering colour and understanding how the colour wheel works. The technical side of the roofscape drawing leaves much to be desired as the perspective is skwonk, but the colour aspect was the object of this exercise and that was successful…. I suspect some drawing lessons will definitely be required if…
Impressionistic Landscape
I am trying a more painterly approach in an attempt to create an impressionistic feel to my work. Landscapes are a new genre so style, technique and subject matter are all very strange to me. I have used a watercolour technique in some areas, applying very thin washes to the under-painting and then building on…
A lilac landscape……
Lilac Landscape Acrylic on canvas 30 X 30cm Paints used in this canvas Titanium white Burnt umber Ultramarine blue Cadmium yellow light Permanent Alizarin crimson To the primed canvas I applied a yellow ochre coloured ground. This will help to give me a unified tone to the landscape and a nice under glow of colour….
A full glass of water
Paints used in this painting: · Titanium white · Burnt umber · Mars black · Yellow ochre For a while I have wanted to learn how to deal with painting water in a glass. It always just seemed so impossibly tricky to get right. In my case it was no time like the present…. Glass…
Still life with teacup, jug and lemon
I began a course on Acrylic painting online with Will Kemp Art School. The idea was to not only improve my painting techniques, but also to explore how to get acrylic to look like oil with all those beautiful shiny glazes and reflected light. The Acrylic pigments I used were as follows: • Titanium white…
A juicy succulent cherry
My juicy cherry was created using the following paints: • titanium white. • Burnt umber • Raw umber • Cadmium red light • Cadmium red medium • Cadmium yellow light • Permanent Alizarin crimson • Green gold • Phthalo blue (red shade) A coloured ground of raw umber mixed with titanium white was painted…
Jug still life – A limited palette
I have wanted to try my hand at still life painting for a while now, but haven’t felt quite confident enough to take on the challenge on my own. It was in school last that I did any kind of still life painting so I was looking for support in the form of online courses…
