#0999 Return
A more satisfying version of the hills, of their power.
Mt Pete
#0976 Mt Pete
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I am at Vic’s cafe in Christchurch. Pleased to be working on my blog at the end of my sabbatical. I have a few to post up! A few of the ones I am posting, perhaps all of them, are on the theme of Return. I am coming to the end of my project, hence returning to work, to normal, to the familiar. Mt Pete is familiar, we see it from the other side of our house, its moods never the same.
Gum Fern Bush
#0959 Gum Fern Bush
One from the Australian trip in March earlier this year. Under the three Sisters in the Blue Mountains. All the Australian sketches are in a category.
Mt. Lyford
#0952 Mt. Lyford
Bush
#0944 Bush
This was yesterday, “plein air” as I crawl into the bush next to the house, with the machine on an extension cord. Still mistly The Pen.
Lyttleton Harbour
#0941 Lyttleton Harbour
I have a few earlier sketches of the harbour. Kate & I have been walking in the Port Hills, familiarising ourselves with the terrain for the the “Over the top Ride” which is now in full-swing at Otahuna Riding.
Once I got into the swing of this pen I want ed to try it out in all sorts of ways. What is more subtle here is the gradation offered in ArtRage. I wanted the distance to recede more so added a gradient of haze. What I like about the “stencil” that does this is that the result is not purely mechanical & mathematical, the gradient is still produced by hand, but with a bit of help! A tool!
The edition of this image is available exclusively Felt, a rather wonderful New Zealand Art & craft site:
Trees
#0931 Trees
They are not native pines, and they are some sort of imported willow, but in full bloom the colour on the drive along the Inland Road is wonderful.
Bush
#0924 Bush
Had to return to the previous one. Seemed there was another step. This was on my mind:
It is not a matter of painting life. It’s a matter of giving life to painting.
Pierre Bonnard
Gully
#0905 Gully
This is the Gully at Mt. Lyford Horse Riding. I have some of these trees in their more winterly form.
Gully
#0904 Gully
