Cosy Places

By Anita Murphy / January 23, 2009 /

Just a doodle from my bed.

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Virtual Sketch Date – Peeled Tangerine

By Anita Murphy / January 22, 2009 /

This is this months Virtual Sketch Date image How many media can you put in one sketch? Started with graphite but I didn’t like it – so I added some colour pencil and then some watercolour and finally a little pen! It was nice to take a day off serious painting and just sit in…

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Jefferson Memorial

By Anita Murphy / January 21, 2009 /

Oil on Canvas, 8″ x 8″ My first contribution to the “Different Strokes from Different Folks” Blog run by Karin Jurick. I’ve been looking at this image for a week or so, ummming and aaaaahing about whether to try it out. I have to admit that its not an image that I would normally paint.…

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Tony Hart – Thank you!

By Anita Murphy / January 20, 2009 /

The Spinnaker, Portsmouth (got tied up with inauguration viewing today and got no art done!) A sad day today hearing that one of my childhood heroes had died – Tony Hart. Tony Hart used to present first Vision On, Take Hart and Hart Beat – wonderful art programmes for children on BBC television. One of…

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Four Quarters

By Anita Murphy / January 19, 2009 /

pastel, 25″ x 19″ I think this is the end of the road for this poor orange – its beginning to dry out and shrink around the edges!

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Three Parts of the Whole

By Anita Murphy / January 18, 2009 /

25″ x 19″, pastel on paper I posted this a couple of hours ago and have come back to add a little writing after spending an evening doing research on blogging, feeds (RSS versus Atom), marketing and generally getting tied up in knots not knowing how to make the next step. A lot of wonderful…

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Three Quarters Mutiplied by Two

By Anita Murphy / January 17, 2009 /

Pastel, 24″ x 16″Oil on canvas, 10″ x 8″I can see looking at this photo that I need to tone down the rear quarter of orange – the colour is too saturated and brings it foreward.Both these pieces were fun to do and it was interesting doing the two pieces with different mediums. I really…

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Watercolour and Bear

By Anita Murphy / January 16, 2009 /

I’m procrastinating – making phone calls, getting started with painting, studying and while I procrastinate I doodle – watercolour paint tubes and a little teddy bear.

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Urban Sketching

By Anita Murphy / January 15, 2009 /

A sketch for today. Sun was shining it was lovely and warm sitting in the sunshine for twenty minutes sketching this. Put the colour in when I got home. Taking a night off oil painting for some admin time. Sometimes you just have to sacrifice studio time for the more practical stuff. I really enjoy…

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Green and Black

By Anita Murphy / January 14, 2009 /

10″ x 10″, oil on canvasTempting fate by putting another apple in this set-up. Quite enjoying playing with green here – never thought I would hear myself say that! More fun with the reflections. I forgot to say yesterday about how I came by the apples. The wonderful secretary in my office, Maria, bought them…

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