Last nights drawings.

One new drawing from last nights session, was I on drugs when I chose bright green for the underdrawing on this one!! it seems to work O.K. and is actually a very good likeness,
of Beth, if anyone wants to get in for a closer look, click on the image and a larger picture will appear, (as if by magic.!!)
we have had a 3 week break so thats why new stuff hasn't been making it on to the site, I have had a few emails asking what happened. I look forward to some nice comments.!!

Peering into the unknown!

The subject is "Discover" so here's my contribution.

Illustration friday - geeky

This was done for a client a few weeks ago, who was intending to start up a company called 'Rich Geek.' So, it was an obvious choice to include in this weeks Illustration Friday. Nerds rule!
Any comments are welcome.

A twisted man!

Haven't had much time recently to join in the fun at Illustration Friday! so here is my version of twist.

Birds Nest.

This is a commisioned painting of a birds nest, someone saw an earlier one of mine at an exhibition, and by the time she had brought her husband back for his approval, it had been sold. so she found me and asked if I would do one specially for her. it is oil on canvas and a metre square.

caricature of Luke

This is a picture someone requested of Luke he is a cowboy type!! from Roxby Downs (Mid North of our state.)
he just happens to look a bit like Brad Pitt, poor chap!!

still life with lemon and blue bowl.

this picture was painted at the same time as the one below,it's oil on canvas, the biggest challenge was to get the white enamelled bottle to look convincing, I love the little flecks of colour in the shadows, (John McCartin, a painter friend of mine says, that when your painting, you should look for colour, and squint for tone.) both these pictures will benefit from a coat of varnish.

New Still Life.

This picture was completed last weekend, it's oil on canvas, about 60 cm in width,

Portrait - five steps

Some people have enquired about the process of making my pastel drawings. So, on Friday I took my camera and over the period of 45 mins took these step-by-step pictures. Hope it is of interest. The most important thing when drawing from life is to enjoy the act of creation.




This drawing of Kate has been sold.

Kate

These two pictures were painted on Friday. The oil sketch of Kate was produced in about 30mins. Its a fairly good likeness, and probably the time constraint stopped me from over-working it.
The other monochrome painting took probably an hour. The constraints of using only one colour, in this case burnt umber, gives a nice fresh appearance.

Last nights life drawing.

Here are two of the drawings from the Thursday night life class. I may post up a couple more later on. (I had what I thought was a productive night.)

Still Life

This is a little painting that I did about a year ago. It depicts various objects I pick up around the place. And, when arranged it subliminaly makes a face. (It does to me, anyway!!) Hope you like it - this one is available for sale. Just email me if you are interested. Its oil on canvas, in a small black frame and measures approximately 400mm x 400mm.

Illustration friday - your paradise

This is my submission for the subject 'your paradise.' If only it was that easy!!

illustration friday - car 2

illustration friday - car

Goolwa Road oil painting

I did this small painting a couple of months ago. My painting buddys were all facing the other direction, painting boats on the water but, me (being a maverick!) chose to paint this suburban road going off in the distance and changing to a dirt road.

last nights drawing.

Enjoyed the life drawing last night, as usual, But this time I have only the one image that passed my rigorous selection criteria!!
hope you like it.

Illustration Friday - Signs

Signs of the times!

still life with apple.

One new still life picture, oil on canvas, about 500x600mm the single apple may be pointing me to a more simple kind of arrangement, if I can get out of my office and up into the studio I'll try another spartan layout!!

Last Thursday's life drawings.

These are two of my drawings from last week, each pose would have been 15 or 20 minutes,
I am trying to hold back on using other colours, it is so tempting to grab the full range of pastels!!
so keeping them in a tonal range is so much better, (I think! ?)

Red Onion

SOLD!!! Here is another still-life. I like the blue shadow. It is about 450mm x 350mm, oil on canvas.

Illustration Friday - Citrus 2

Herewith another submission for Illustration Friday. With the lemon at centre stage!!

Illustration Friday - Citrus

Here is a painting I did a few years ago - but it is very suiting, don't you think?

Drawing from life

Had a good night at drawing last night. Came away with three or four pictures that I am reasonably pleased with. I also enjoyed my lasagna and two glasses of red, (Australian of course!!) in the Cafe Pallazo. Anyone else out there in life-drawing groups? Is it making a come back?

Illustration Friday - Neighbour2

I bet we have all had a neighbour like this!