Watercolour Experiment

January 10, 2011

But, like anything, learning a new medium comes with its own stumbling blocks and learning curve. The one thing I was particularly worried about was stretching paper.

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Theme And Variation: Goose

January 8, 2011

I wanted to get a sense of the new mediums that have entered my artistic toolbox recently (and there have been a lot of those post Christmas). So I decided to do quick pictures of watercolour postcards with a variety of medium.

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New Year Musings

January 3, 2011

I am always reluctant to entertain ideas of new years resolutions since they always feel like setting one’s self up to fail. But I thought I would muse over things in a general way – hopes, fears and the like.

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Archibald Portrait Prize Finalists 2010

December 30, 2010

Today I went to visit a local showing of the Archibald Portrait Prize Finalists. [The Archibald is probably the most publicised art prize in Australia.] It was wonderful to see the artworks up close.

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Giving…

December 24, 2010

It seems counter-intuitive but you receive things (albeit sometimes intangible things) by giving. You receive pleasure by giving pleasure, you gain connection through giving of yourself. So this holiday season I invite you to give something of yourself to someone else and see what happens.

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Painting: The Badlands

December 22, 2010

I’m not really too sure what to say about this painting. I wanted to pay tribute to someone who has been very supportive of me in recent times, artist Adam Devenish.

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Self-Portrait Version 1

December 17, 2010

I was experimenting with my watercolour paints on canvas board and produced this. I am calling it “Self-Portrait Version 1″ because I’m in the process of going over it in acrylics. I wanted to have two variations on the same basic drawing that were vastly different.

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Palette Knife Figure

December 17, 2010

On the day I painted this I was all about palette knives and texture.

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