Title: Forest Lace
Completion: 21st November 2010
Dimensions: 60cm H x 40.2cm W x 4.2cm D
Depiction of the intricate lacework created by nature in the leaves, roots and bark of the rainforest.
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Forest Lace (2010)
Title: Forest Lace
Completion: 21st November 2010
Dimensions: 60cm H x 40.2cm W x 4.2cm D
Depiction of the intricate lacework created by nature in the leaves, roots and bark of the rainforest.
Click on images for a supersized view!
Tidal Reflections (2009)
Size: 121.5cm H x 40.5cm W x 3.5cm D
See close-ups below or click above on main image for a supersized view!
Okay, first painting completed since the big move. Took a lot longer than anticipated and my back felt so sore during last couple of painting days...but I was determined to just get it done! Glad I finally completed such a tall & narrow seascape piece - as I have wanted to see what one would look like for a long time..thought it might look nice in a hallway entrace? Anyway, good practice refining this style and end product comes with enjoyable sense of satisfaction!
(Completed 29th October 2009)
Step-By-Step - The Waterlilies
Step 1 - Background Colour (forms the basis of my colour scheme and shapes how the dots contrast)
Step 2 - Placing the Flower Centres (this will form the basic structure of the painting and everything with revolve around these)
Step 3 - Flower Outlines (laying out the colours of the flowers)
Step 4 - Finished Flowers
Step 5 - Outline of the Lily Pads
Step 6 - Lily Pads Finished
Step 7 - Beginning the Colour Scheme for the Water Ripples
Step 8 - Nearly Done...
Step 9 - Finshed Product!! Photo is brighter as I took this outside in morning sun after coating with gloss (which also helps to bring out the colours)
The Waterlilies (2009)
Size: 60.5cm H x 152cm WSee close-ups below or click above on main image for a supersized view!
Well, I'm glad this one is finished. I think I've had about enough of waterlilies for sometime...but it's fun to look at the previous waterlily paintings to see how my ideas evolved to where they are now. I'm very happy with this painting and had so much fun with patterns and colours!
Beginnings, Inspirations & Dots
A lot of people ask me 'Why dots?'...well here is that story:
I always loved drawing. My first love of art came from cartoons - even though my mother was a painter (I never liked her paintings and found them rather disturbing).
I was the generation to grow up with Disney, Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion & the Smurfs to name but a few. Because of this I naturally gravitated to comic books once I began reading and my favorite were the 'Asterix' series by Goscinny & Underzo. To this day I am in awe of the drawing talent of Underzo (see pic below):
I was always amazed that a small line in the right spot on a facial drawing could translate in my brain to being a 'nose' for example...it is for this amazing deconstruction - reducing a real image to a series of fewer & fewer lines yet still having the ability to retain the essence of the original image - that I find endlessly fascinating.
Anyway upon studying art in high school, I was forced to choose two artists of the 'pop' era to do a project on. To be honest, at that stage in my life I thought most art was complete crap. So I chose Roy Lichtenstein who did some nice copies of cartoon pictures - but enlarged to the point that you could see the dots that made up the colours from the magazine printing (see pic below):
I always loved drawing. My first love of art came from cartoons - even though my mother was a painter (I never liked her paintings and found them rather disturbing).
I was the generation to grow up with Disney, Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion & the Smurfs to name but a few. Because of this I naturally gravitated to comic books once I began reading and my favorite were the 'Asterix' series by Goscinny & Underzo. To this day I am in awe of the drawing talent of Underzo (see pic below):
I was always amazed that a small line in the right spot on a facial drawing could translate in my brain to being a 'nose' for example...it is for this amazing deconstruction - reducing a real image to a series of fewer & fewer lines yet still having the ability to retain the essence of the original image - that I find endlessly fascinating.
Anyway upon studying art in high school, I was forced to choose two artists of the 'pop' era to do a project on. To be honest, at that stage in my life I thought most art was complete crap. So I chose Roy Lichtenstein who did some nice copies of cartoon pictures - but enlarged to the point that you could see the dots that made up the colours from the magazine printing (see pic below):
Well, these were my early inspirations...but what then? The truth is I gave up on art in favour of science. I went to university and got distracted by boys, friends and other things young people (and some not so young) get distracted by...Well, a lot happened in a very short space of time, suffice to say my life was thrown into upheaval and after many years of depressed brooding, my partner made me a canvas one night, got out some paints and some newspaper and set it all up in front of me and told me to 'just paint'.
And that was was start of it all....now I know I've glossed over a lot of things, but I think I'll just wrap it up be stating that I enjoy painting things that make me feel happy & at peace, stuff that can make me tune out the bad day I've just had...and think about something positive, even if its just the beauty of the shapes & colours :)
