Todays work - Fathers Day Cartoons

Ok so today I have been creating cartoons with fathers day in mind. These will have sayings to go with them on my store later on. But this is just the art work behind it. I first did these in graphite as sketches and then took a photo and uploaded them to the PC. Once I did that I then printed them of on watercolour paper which of course did the inking for me. Then using watercolours I painted them and took photos again once they were dry. I then uploaded them cropped the edges and then put them into paint where I edited them a little to get the end result.

Ducks

Last night was playing around with the pastels while looking at one of the photos I took on my road trip not long back. Now I didn't wish to give this the exact look of the original photo as I wanted to have a rough type of a look too, but sticking with the original concept of the photo. Now I used soft Pastel to do this one with the added use of water to help provide texture.

A3 on Watercolour paper

Soft Pastel Experiment

Today I decided to do a little experiment with soft pastel using water on a brush to blend it just to see how it would come out. I also used watercolor paper to see how it would like the texture. What I found was it loved the texture of the paper and adding water helped to get a much better texture on the page but also meant that the pastel didn't lift as easy of the page. I did two trials and this was the outcome.

Gipsland Area - Soft Pastel - Watercolor paper A3

Abstract Flowers - Soft Pastel - Watercolor paper A3

Gipsland Area - Farm Shead Oil 18" x 24" MDF Board

This one is painted from a photo my Daughter Julz took when we went on a long country drive on the 14 of March 2009. Thanks Julz.

Colours used - Archival Professional Artist Oils

Titanium White

Permanent Sap Green

Chromium Green Oxide

Paynes Grey

Yellow Green

Raw Sienna Dark

Royal Blue

Prussian Blue

Naples Yellow

Torago Reservoir Victoria, Oil 18" x 24" MDF Board

Oil 18" x 24" MDF Board
Archival Oils
Chromium Green Oxide - Series 2,
Olive Green - Series 2,
Permanent Sap Green - Series 3,
French Ultramarine Blue - Series 1,
Cerulean Blue Hue - Series 1,
Light Red Orche - Series 1,
Cadmium Red Medium - Series 4 and
Titanium White - Series 1

Torago Reservoir Victoria, I've painted from a photo Julz took on the 13 04 2009 when we went for a long drive to Nerium. Torago Reservoir was on the way ands I seen a sign for it and thought why not lets have a look so of we went. Was a beautiful sight to see and such a peaceful place. Sadly though the water was way down under the normal amount.

Julz thanks for the photo

Squeaky Beach Willsons Promontory 2

This one is painted from my own reference photo taken Easter Sunday whilst visiting Willsons Promontory.

Its Oil 18" x 24" MDF Board

Squeaky Beach Willsons Promontory

On Eater Sunday I took my children for a drive up to Willsons Promontory and whilst there paid a visit to Squeaky Beach. We took many photos and this is the result of one of them.

Painted in Oil on MDF board 18" x 24" in size

Flinders Street Station

On my art forum at present we have a competition which requires you to sketch a famous landmark. As a result I choice to do Flinders Street Station here in Melbourne Australia as I had taken a photo only a couple weeks before of it.

Flinders Street was the first railway station to occupy the Flinders Street site although back then it was known as Melbourne or City Terminus. It was completes in 1854 and was officially opened on the 12th of September.

As Flinders Street has been sketched so many times before I decided to sketch it in a very lose style to hopefully give it a more original look.

Study Of Frederick Mccubbin's The Letter 1884, Oil 12" x 16"

One of my all time favorite Australian Artist is Frederick McCubbin, so I decided to have a go at painting his painting known as "The Letter 1884"I've painted it on Mont Marte 380 Premium Cotton Duck High Density Weave Professional Series Canvas and is 12"x 16" in size. The photo is not so great due to the oils being so wet so will try to get another photo in the next couple of days. But so far have done the back ground and will have to come back when it's dry to touch up some of the background and also paint the lady.

My Painting so far

Commission Piece complete Soft Pastel A3

After 22 hours I have finally complete this piece of work. I will be happy to pass it over to it's new owners. Just hope they like it.