mary says
Mary has just sent an email saying that she was thinking Howard Hodgkin rather than Ben Nicholson…as if this was a bad thing!!! this is an excellent thing Ben Nicholson is just someone to start with and to pick his brains but the fact that Mary had already started hankering after some PAINT like […]
terms of abstraction : term 1 2016
Terms of abstraction Often when we are painting we get too wrapped up with the subject matter and lose track of the fact that we are making a picture By that I mean we forget to make the marks energised and the paint luscious and the shapes eloquent within the picture frame. We all do […]
2016: term 1 of pure abstraction
i have just been down to the new show at the Auckland Gallery to see the show A Necessary Distraction these are all abstractions and gave me an idea for doing some pure abstraction next term Kirstin Carlin making beautiful sensated marks which gave me ideas of how I could paint my garden Jeena […]
2015 term 4 Albert park
this term was epic in that we did some excellent work relating the figure to the landscape. we had a great day in Albert park with some lovely obliging subjects, did some good sketches and took loads of photos and came up with some of the best compositions yet. i think it was the trace […]
PORTRAIT SUMMER SCHOOL
i am planning to have a PORTRAIT SUMMER SCHOOL mid January hopefully Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th January two days intensive working from a traced line drawing from your chosen photographic reference working in Grisaille (tonal underpainting in black and white) with colour glazes laid on at the end this is a splendid example of […]
Day in the park
Yesterday I went to Albert park to do a reccie the sun was out and the students lounged in the sunshine there was plenty to look at that would make an interesting painting or two also some wonderful sub tropical plantings which would make Carl Maughan pay attention also on the way there i […]
Term 4 studies in the park
Andrew Wyeth David Keeling This term we will go to the park and do some studies Students lounging, paths through the trees,garden beds…random streakers (couldnt resist that random painting of Wyeths) we will meet at the hall for some orientation on the first day and do some studies to enlighten us on what to look […]
term 3 work: tonal still life
This term I got strict and made everyone work from life.We don’t do it enough, i thought, so this term I’d insist And the results were very gratifying.Not only did everyone mention just how much they had learned working with the still life in front of them , but it showed in the work too. […]
PAY FOR THE GARDEN STUDIO SALE!
on the 21st July i am opening my studio gallery and selling some recent works at return to artist prices you are welcome to come along and do bring anyone else who would be interested these are some of the works that will be available blue nude 1 blue nude 2 Raro […]
50 Shades of Grey. A term of Tone
This is a Diebenkorn still life to give us inspiration for next term starting on August 4th we will start off with a tonal study in grey and white in grisaille.Learning how to manage getting tones in the right relationship to one another. for those who have already done this many times they can do […]