Category: Sketches

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Glass with Lemon

#319 Glass with Lemon
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The first of a series of still lifes I am doing as I explore WetCanvas, a website for artists. This is a new stage for me, more on that.

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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A4, 21 cm x 29.7 cm archival paper. The image size is 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm. The next available print is: 1/25 Purchase Print

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Paula Rego – Painter

#317 Rego
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This is from an image of Paula Rego from a video. I loved seeing her work & story in that film. What I learnt was that paintings could be very like a Psychodrama – with multiple time frames and scenes that deal with & resolve the past. Surplus reality as Moreno called it. Maybe that is on the agenda here, but then again the whole of Thousand Sketches is a Psychodrama – look at the previous post for example.

This portrait was consciously influenced by Alex Katz work, who I blogged recently. In the post about him are a lot of images – I have not looked at them since I made that post – there is something for me to learn from him.

I have also been inspired by Laura of LauraLines who is working on a project to do 101 faces.

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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A4, 21 cm x 29.7 cm archival paper. The image size is 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm. The next available print is: 1/25 Purchase Print

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This post has my sketch above & what follows are 2 images I snapped from the video, and more from the net.

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Young

#315 Young
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Doodling while listening to Neil Young. This is perhaps the last in the series I did beginning #0058, while they are fun to do, and I like to revisit various styles, I think I have done my dash with these.

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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A3+, 33 cm x 48 cm archival paper. The image size is 30 cm x 30 cm square. The next available print is: 1/25 Purchase Print

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Mt Cook Daisy

#313 Daisy
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This is Celmesia Lyallii, I think I have that right from my days as an assistant to Hugh Wilson when he was surveying the plants of the Mt Cook region in the late ’60s, early ’70s.

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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A4, 21 cm x 29.7 cm archival paper. The image size is 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm. The next available print is: 1/25 Purchase Print

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Lillies

#312 Lillies
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This is not really a Lily, but a buttercup. Ranunculus Lyallii

it is iconic in New Zealand and iwas the emblem for Mt Cook Airlines and buses until Air New Zealand took them over. I want to find one of those old logos, can’t find it on the web.

I was pleased to find these on my walk up to the Ball Shelter.

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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A4, 21 cm x 29.7 cm archival paper. The image size is 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm. The next available print is: 1/25 Purchase Print

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Aoraki Triangles

#311 Aoraki Triangles
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A while back I made a podcast while looking at this view, noticing the triangles. I said I’d draw it then, and I have.

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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A4, 21 cm x 29.7 cm archival paper. The image size is 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm. The next available print is: 1/25 Purchase Print

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Salvaged

#310 Salvaged
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The word salvage came mind – it seemed like a pile of old stuff. This is a distorted glimpse in a direction I want to follow, but only a glimpse. I was experimenting with “Deep Paint” which is dramatic in how it handles light and relief in the strokes. However adding light to create pseudo relief to a flat surface is one of the fake aspects of the digital work I don’t like. Many of my sketches have it, and it does seem to work in some ways. Perhaps I should get over it? But no, I think I will avoid it from here on.

Deep paint creates layers which it uses to build the relief. Below in this post are three used to create this one. I almost prefer each layer in its own right.

When I say a glimpse, it is because one day I will do large abstract, colourful, rich oils, they will have relief, this a sketch!

What do you think?

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