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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6 O’clock Shadow

By Anita Murphy / January 2, 2009 /

The name is a misnomer – it was two o’clock but I prefer the play on words! We have a covered back balcony (the sides are just wooden bars with netting) and in the afternoon the sun shines through and makes wonderful shadows with the bars. Ever since we arrived here I have wanted to…

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Crazy Mix

By Anita Murphy / November 30, 2008 /

Nothing like painting ice-cream to make you paint fast!! I think someone on the outside looking in would have been rather amused by my running up and down stairs with a choc-ice. I painted a bit then took it back down to the freezer while I worked a bit more on building up the painting,…

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Leon

By Anita Murphy / November 28, 2008 /

I think that I have finished this commissioned portrait. As usual impossible task of photographing graphite work and getting the paper to look white even in monochrome. I will try and get a better photo of this. Quick pastel – really liked the way the light was spilling round the edge of the canvases leaning…

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“Squeeze from the bottom” and “Bed Linen”

By Anita Murphy / November 24, 2008 /

6″ x 4″ oil on canvasToday’s daily painting – tube of paint, and it was my husband’s suggestion to have the paint coming out of the tube so I blame him for the sheer extravagance of wasting paint! I’ve discovered that the smoother the object the more fiddly I become and its all I can…

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Corridor

By Anita Murphy / November 17, 2008 /

An interior pastel from my house. This looks into the laundry area and out into the back garden – I love the light reflections on the floor.

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