Hockey Player - Pointillism

Today determined to get the hang of pointillism I decided to start another one this time using a different mediums. I got out my Staedtler Triplus Finliners and got to work. This piece is 9.5 x 11cm in size is sketched on sketch pad. To get this one accurate I first sketched the girl in very lightly and then draw in lines both horizontal and vertical to keep me going straight. I then started dotting away until I come to what I have now. What I leaned was that it's important to keep the dots very close together and in straight rows if possible. I was very happy with the outcome with this one.

Failed Pointillism

Last night in my attempt to learn pointillism fallowing a fun art study with a friends, I began this piece. I learned a lot from this one. First of all watercolour pencil don't seem to be a great medium to try this one in. The other thing is when you start to see nothing more than thousands of dots stop or you end up with the problem I come across. You start to go out of whack. Which is displayed in the top of this piece. It was done on A3 sketch pad and took me about three hours to complete it. All though I call it a failed attempt it was a brilliant lesson to learn from.

Flowers in a pot

Today I set out to do a piece of work using pointillism after having failed at it yesterday. Today though I decided to use a different medium. Instead of oil paints I decided to experiment with my Artline Drawing system. So using a variety of sizes 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 and 0.8 I began a new piece. This time I didn't sketch it out first. I just simply started to place dots on a piece of A3 sketch pad. Roughly two hours later I had finished. With a very sore hand to show for it. I think this is a very rewarding technique but one that requires much practice.

Flowers

This one was painted yesterday and come about in an interesting manner. I started out attempting to paint a dancer using the technique known as pointillism. However in my disappointment I smeared the dots over the canvas blending all the colours together and started to dab paint here and there until the painting took on its own form. These flowers is what later appeared on the canvas. It's painted in Oil Paint and is 20 x 25cm in size painted on Medium Cotton Duck Canvas. I was quiet happy with the outcome in the end.

Ship Wrecked

Ship Wrecked was painted with left over paint as a follow up of Sale the Feisty Sea. It’s painted on A3 canvas pad.

Sale The Fiesty Sea

I woke up feeling confident about painting an abstract. I wanted to paint an abstract using anything bar a paintbrush. The under painting was done with a ragging technique and then the rest was painted using a thin piece of plastic and a toothbrush. When I started out I didn’t have a clue what I was painting and the ship just come to life as I painted. It’s painted on A3 canvas pad.

Lovers

A painting I come across of a pair of lovers in the Blackshere Fine Art Gallery 217 Swan St Richmond Victoria 3121, during the Touch of Red 11 2007 competition inspired lovers. I then went home and with only a pallet knife and a very limited pallet created "Lovers" which is painted on canvas 40cm x 50cm. It was the very first time I had ever tried to work with a pallet knife and I felt very happy with the results.

Strange Art

Strange art started out a doodle whilst sitting with family chatting. The more we chatted the more strange ideas come to my head. It brought about a lot of laughter on the night. The next day I felt I should attempt to paint it but keeping with the strange concept of the nature of the sketch I felt it only right to paint it with as much confusions. It's a mixed medium painted with acrylic and oil and is painted on 10” x 12” canvas panel. I started out with acrylic just painting different shapes on the board. I then experimented with a a very thin wash of acrylic to do the white web. Once dried I then painted the subjects over the top in oil. It was so much fun and brings back some great memories for me in regards to spending time with family.

Flowers

These were painted in 2007 on canvas 50cm x 70cm. It was inspired from a walk down the street after looking at all the pretty flowers that were about at the time. I set up and begin to doodle until I come up with what we have in front of us. I used the colours from the flowers to pull out and blend into the background, which I felt created a nice soft look.

Skyscape

Sky scape was a piece of work I did whilst sitting in my car filling in time while waiting to pick my son up from his volunteers job at the RSPCA. It comes straight out of my head as I played around with different colours. It’s done on A3 sketchpad and is up for sale. It comes unframed. I had not used oil pastel very much at this stage and found it a very interesting medium to work with at the time as blending it was hard work. But I did love the way the pastels worked into one another.