Inspiration: a portrait by Frans Koppelaar
I love the work of this Dutch painter. This drawing shows how a highlight can be created on a white surface with only a minimal line separating the highlight from the background. The eye must do the work!
Pine Ridge
#180 Pine Ridge
I pronounced this one done. It was done quite quickly, but not really as there were a few goes that took a lot longer, but which I deleted. The speed seems to give it more character & freedom. It is in two pencil settings – one with just the point, the other with the largest possible he”angle” simulating a pencil used on its edge. Its done but I was after another look. There may be more along these lines to come!
All day I have been looking at the world thinking how could I do that in pencil? It is particularly hard when it comes to large areas of black & whiter than white highlights. How can that be done? I notice that sort of contrast on peoples faces. More pencil pending.
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Weathered Flax Flowers
#0179 Weathered Flax Flowers
Dead Flax stalks – last year’s flowers
#178 Dead_Flax
I began with plain graphite, but clicked colour in error & let it be.
The stalks have been in wind, sun, rain, snow & sleet for about a year, they are dried & bleached and weathered greay in places. They will soon compost themselves.
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Manuka comining into Flower
#177 Manuka
I have been going about three months and have earlier Manuka sketches of the old seed heads, but now the new buds are out and some are in flower.
This is in faux pencil on faux moleskine and it looks best shrunk down in size… the power of digital manipulation!
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Mist
Last year on the farm
Pencil work
Posted Inspiration – a work by Bart Westgeest of I Landscape
This is nice, & it is useful. Even though this is real pencil & paper (once anyway) it inspires me to click on my pencil button and try out the various “softness” settings more. Love this picture.
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Immersed in a pond
The Redfern Gallery – California: Past and future exhibitions
Inspiration – the following work is by Kevin Macpherson
Kevin Macpherson did 368 paintings of the same pond over five years.
Stella Saddle
#175 Stella Saddle
Mostly sketched with the pen set to oil. Learning how to do sky. It worked here by having just the right amount of virtual turps in the mix. 100 makes for light and 95 is already quite dark!
This is the view from the stumps up to the saddle where the ski field road goes up to Lake Stella. This view is one that people see when they go on the “Stumps” Horse Trek.