anita murphy

I’ve spent this week neutralizing the greys, working on heightening the highlights and deepening the dark areas. Interesting process that involves a great deal of squinting which makes bright and dark areas stand out. Still working on really getting that neutral area in the greys.

I’ve been working with Michael Newberry for the last few weeks and this is almost the end of my first full piece as a result of his mentorship. I’m trying to sum up my experience of being in a country where women are very much second class citizens, and where, as westerners, we are extremely…

Life has been getting in the way but some events lately have made me rethink my life and that it is time to get back to work artwise. I did join in and do the portrait swap on WetCanvas this month which was a nice break. I hope my partner, Sonja, likes what I did…

‘If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.’– Vincent Van Gogh “We are what we repeatedly do.”– Aristotle

“Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in 2 small jumps.”– David Lloyd George

I signed up with Michael Newberry’s mentorship programme and am really excited about the direction this is going to take my artwork. Having to think more about the why in what I am doing I hope will make the art more engaging. I do believe that work that the artist was excited about and was…

So today I sneaked this photo while I was out on photography assignment for work. Its also pretty much my first view of what lies outside our compound. Maybe this next weekend I will wander out along the wadi and see what there is out there – apart from sand! Have started working on some…

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I’m still waiting for my stuff to arrive and so am still not painting – I need to focus more and get out and sketch. I’ve been set a task to photograph some stuff for work so I am going to take the opportunity to photograph a bit more than I am supposed to! Shhh…