Mixed work

A busy day in the painting world for me last night and today. So last night I did some more work on my engagement card design as I wasn't happy with it.

I also did some work on my tiger landscape. I added in a shadow above the eye and a extra strip of to the side of his head near the ear.

I also painted another painting last night of a snow scape but may be doing some extra work to this one.

Today my niece gave birth to a baby girl which I will be going to see real so. But I wanted so much to give her something special so I decided to paint her my own card to go with her present.

I am also working on a big cat which is being painted on MDF Boards size 61 x 92 cm. The first step was just to outline it.

The second step is to begin putting in the underlying colours.

Design for engagement card & Tiger Landscape

Just completed this one in soft pastel on blue Colourfix paper 30 x 40cm in size. Once I sort the photos I will have this one done as a stop motion video, thanks to Julz taking all my photos as I worked. Thanks Julz . It's the first time I have attempted tigers in pastel, but was reasonable happy with the outcome. Painted mostly from my imagination although I used a reference for the tigers.

This is just a little design I have done for an engagement card on my shop. It's done with watercolour pencils and was painted on 18 06 09.

Practices Flowers

This one is painted on A3 Canvas Pad in Atelier Interactive Artists Acrylic paints. Painted straight from my imagination.

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