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Archive for the ‘Acrylic’ Category
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el exhibition-oh, el pussy cat-oh!
Well firstly – Happy New Year all!!! Boy, time sure is creeping on, or really flying past I should say!
Christmas and New years was very relaxing, with a trip to Tasmania to see relatives for Christmas, along with a…
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Bodacious Ben
Here’s another one finished for the Sketch book Project!
Had some time away over Christmas and New Years, so am fully rested and restored. This fella was begun in Tasmania and coloured up in West Australia… so he’s a well…
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Bestiola’s Exhibition
What a great night!
Lots of really really fantastic art!! Soooo many talented people it makes me very glad to be apart of the whole event. It was also wonderful to meet many of the artists and even discuss a…
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Feast your Eyes Festival
Well, it’s all over with and I have to be honest, I’m quite relieved! The build up to the event for myself personally was quite stressful… I hadn’t ever done a live painting gig before… and not that I’m a…
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The delightful Nana Mouskouri
Today was rainy windy and miserable… it was the perfect day to finish off a few projects I started last week.
One of them was an artwork for a friend, and seeing it hung in it’s special place was very…
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Roadmap Drips
With a few parks thrown in. – done at the abstract painting class… a study of letting paint do what it likes… hard to let the control go completely! Watered down the acrylics and just tilted the canvas every which…
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Fields of Solace and coming exhibitions
The subject of our teachings this week, was on the famous artist Mark Rothko. (Think rectangles people!)
You wouldn’t really think so though, looking at what I painted. Maybe next week I’ll tackle an abstract piece. Although there…
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Kline styles and Reflections
The Freedom School of Art started back in for another term this week. We looked at the style of Kline’s paintings…. not my total cup of tea really. But it was kind of interesting watching our teacher produce one in…
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Cities, Counties & Predators
Well some time ago, I asked my facebook “likers” to check out my newly designed website to find a certain piece of information.. with clues strewn into the statement…. one of my work colleagues.. launched enthusiastically into the challenge and…
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Peppermint Winter
Basing my colours from the awnings just outside where our painting class is held… I do love this colour green… coupled with the rust colours.. I could do a bunch of different versions of this and never get bored.
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Getting Inspiration
This Saturday class has been an interesting and thought provoking way of looking at how I paint and visualise images. I have always liked concentrating in on patterns of the every day world, so I’ve quite enjoyed trying on different…
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No 1 : Painting Class : 14 May 11
Over the next 7 weeks I’ll be doing a painting class where abstract is the norm. I couldn’t quite get there today, but I did like the result at the end of the day just the same. We meet every…