Orange and Black

By Anita Murphy / January 26, 2009 /

oil on canvas, 10″ x 10″ I’ve had a lovely day off today – didn’t accomplish as much as I had hoped but on your birthday its good just to chill a little! I have been really enjoying doing reflections so thought I would tackle this mug again. I thought lemons were hard to paint…

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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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