A set of three quick still-life studies with a limited palette. LEMON Stretched canvas – 30cm X 30cm Paint Colours: Titanium white, raw umber, burnt umber, cadmium yellow light, raw sienna ONION Stretched canvas 30cm X 30cm Paint colours: Titanium white raw umber burnt sienna burnt umber cadmium yellow light raw sienna permanent Alizarin crimson…
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4 Seasons
Winter, my absolute favourite of all the 4 seasons! Summer, as bright and beautiful as it is, it is probably the least favourite of my seasons because of the heat in the tropics! That said, the flowers and colours summer produces are magnificent in their brilliance! Spring has an almost fluorescent brilliance to it which…
Botanicals, botanicals and more botanicals….
I love drawing flowers and especially botanical drawings. What I have recently been trying out is water soluble pencil crayons. Watercolour or water-soluble pencils crayons are a unique cross-over between drawing and painting. You draw with them as you would with any pencil or crayon, but then you run a wet brush over your drawing. This…
Still life – reflections in mahogony
This is the last painting in the series of a course Phil gave me for Christmas in 2013. I know, I know, more than a year ago, but I have been so busy with all my other art and giving in to urges to paint all sorts of other exciting things that I put this…
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…
Irises unfolding
Last year I made myself a promise….. That I would have my big Iris painting completed by the end of the year….. I was hoping to have it hanging up above the piano by Christmas! In my dreams!!!! Well, it is now the end of January 2012 already, and I am finally making inroads into…
Irises in Full Bloom
I so enjoyed painting the iris in bud I attempted to paint the bud once it had opened….. Acrylic on Canvas 40 X 50 cm
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