Watercolour Beginners if you start off with 3 tubes of paints you can create all these and more colour mixes. BEGINNERS’ 3 TUBES: Cobalt Blue pb28 Permanent Rose pv19 Winsor Lemon py175 (Transparent Paint category) For new beginners, when just starting out, limiting […]
Sunset photo with a powerful design. Its steep diagonal Light tone is angled nearly to a vertical. The Dark sea foreground acts as the horizontal to anchor it. I love this photograph, and had to post it separately from clouds. The drama here is created primarily from the 3 directionals. The Most dominant being […]
Colourful, bold, Impressionist cloud painting in watercolours captures the mood of the day near Warwick, Queensland. A limited palette of three tubes of paint and mixing them has provided more than enough colours to create a lovely sense of aerial perspective. Notice the warmer orange browns are in the foreground and the cooler colours, grey […]
Landscape in oils: my interpretation of looking down from the air at the arid terrain of Western Australia. Used 2 colours plus white, rubbing the paint into the canvas with cotton cloth. No brushes. Fun, Relaxing to create and paint. By rubbing the oil paint into the canvas it helps the oils to dry […]
A few weeks ago I posted Good News about Epic Art Failures filled with several exuberant images that were not yet resolved. I had a bit of a think and reassessed the mountain created with watercolours using a palette knife. I determined that the perimeters needed quite a bit of softening, which was done very […]
Snippets of just a few of the styles and media planned for my upcoming “Zen of Colour” creative art course at Atwell Gallery, Perth Term 1 2015. I will also be conducting a demo preview for this course at the Jackson’s Art Supplies Alfred Cove, Perth Thursday January 29, 2015 Colours […]
The Feeling of the Land. I love the land, its colours, textures, shapes, layers and the richness of its dialogue. Its more important to me, to convey the feeling of the place, its spirit rather than the precise exact details. When I paint, I feel it. I rely more on my creative intuition than on […]
Atwell Gallery Summer School Art Courses – Drawing Using Your Imagination workshop – one of my monotype images
Drawing on your imagination initially may present some challenges, but with practice it becomes second nature. i.e. you learn as you go! From this first image of the banksia, I developed the concept of a circular form; deciding to pair up the golden amber with soft mossy greens. The next “springboard” for my […]
Its easy to get carried away with colour – when emerald, amethyst, indigo, scarlet, magenta, cobalt, sunflower yellow lure you in! And then you end up creating either Mud… or a lot of rainbow splashes going everywhere. However much fun this is, in order to achieve a more successful painting you have to force yourself […]