I was hunting through my hard drive for images that might be a basis for a painting. I came across this photographic image which I took sometime in February 2013. [caption id="attachment_20144" align="alignnone" width="777"] An empty building that seems to be slowly falling apart on the main street...
Summer holidays are now just a memory. I didn’t take holidays as such, I just stopped painting for a while. I made eight new canvas stretchers ready for the new year. I had some family relaxing time too. I have been painting in the last few weeks, you...
Here are three stages of a painting. I have a sense before starting of what I hope for, but there are always a few changes of direction on the journey. I am trying very hard here of not just painting the same painting over and over again. [caption...
I was not happy, I nnew something was not right, held my finger before my eye and blocked out the bottom half, it had to go! That's it, on with something else. [caption id="attachment_20063" align="aligncenter" width="1536"] Acrylic on canvas 600mm x 600mm[/caption]...
My second painting done and my thoughts so far are; It is good to be not fighting against the medium (smooth graduations in acrylic are not as suitable as oil paint). I would like to make my own choices about colour rather than following what the camera produces. I will still...
My last painting effort was a marathon and I have been looking for something like a quick sprint, a paring down, a new language. The painting below is more an idea of a landscape rather than an optical representation. Though it is from a photograph I...
The end of a long journey. I now have to choose a new direction. I have been living in Masterton now for five months, but I am still thinking of some images I took in Wellington before I left. Mostly weeds growing from the footpath...
.. and it will be done. I have a bottle in the doorway to paint, and just the glue plastered column. I will make the yellow trays a little more orange. The last few weeks have been a distraction with a large gardening job. I...
The tatty bills is probably the hardest part. I actually got stuck here so continued elsewhere to keep up some momentum, now I feel ready to tackle it. I’m hoping another week will see the end of this one. ...
There are just two areas to cover with paint, some refining here and there and the grey sign above fruit shop is not quite the right hue, I shall probably correct today. ...