Charcoal on Rives.
Read MoreWorking with charcoal to revitalise a flagging artistic spirit.
Read MorePastel on paper A small part of our household goods arrived last week including my pastels, some paints, panels and paper. Great delight to be reunited with them, followed by a more than a little trepidation and procrastination. There is only so much alternative living (where you do the alternative rather than doing what you…
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I’ve been rather tied up with a lot of stuff lately but have been working away slowly at this charcoal – a version of Vertical Limits that I did in pastels when we were in Saudi Arabia. Its been nice getting back to the subtlety of tonal values.
Read MoreStill playing with the red paper and reflections in the glass topped table. Using red paper has been a real test for me, pushes your way of thinking way of center and away from what you thought stood true. I’ve just ordered some other coloured papers and it will be interesting to see how they…
Read Morepastel on paperI have been in an artistic ditch for a while but hoping that is past now and that I am back into the groove.This was quite fun to do and I limited myself just to catching the way the light fell and not letting myself get too caught up in the extraneous details…
Read MoreI haven’t posted for quite a while – suffering with daily headaches has dammed my artistic flow somewhat. I fell in love with some pastels that Michael Newberry did on red paper and as I had some in store its been kind of lurking out there that I might play with this a little. This…
Read MoreCore of a Rose, graphite on paper, 4″ x 4″ Its funny how when you look back at work you did years ago a lot of it makes you cringe but other pieces still feel right. This piece leaped out at me recently because I have been thinking about abstracts and expressionism increasingly. I have…
Read MoreMy second try at Jeanette in watercolour (the first while I was happy with the my application of paint was not quite right proportionally) – I am a total novice with this medium and find its unpredictablity both delightful and confounding at the same time. This is only my third portrait in watercolour (the first…
Read MoreMarch’s offering to the portrait group to which I belong is a portrait of Jeanette, wonderful and talented artist, printmaker and maker of delicious jewellery. Not sure how much more I will do to this, maybe a little tweaking. Seeing it here I wonder if I have her nose at the right angle. Trying to…
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