#176 Mist
Pencil perseverance.
Looking East from Mt. Lyford – after the rain.
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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.
Albie
#166 Albie
Line. In process but not satisfied.
“No art is less spontaneous than mine,” the French Painter Edgar Degas once said. “What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.”
He is not a bad master to start with. Here is one of his sketches:
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Thousand Sketches & Signatures
#174 Thousand Sketches
Every Line tells a story.
And I did a lot of these to see how my line looked.
Great post by Duane Keiser on lines in his On Painting blog.
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And there is something about sigs. I don’t usually sign the digital versions, because I sign the prints. Does not feel quite right to sign them twice! Yet the little pencil lines designed not to distract from the image don’t really suit me either. Sometimes I want to sign it there & then. Sometimes I want to put a big bold felt pen sig on the bottom of a print, but it would create a radical departure from the digital version. Do it anyway?
I think I will do both, sign the digital image & put a bolder sig on the Giclées, if it feels right.
I did that in # 169
What do other digital artists do?
I think the form is new enough to be fluid & I will experiment & discuss!
Grass
#172 Grass
I drew it & I photoshopped it. It captures that moment lying in the grass & seeing the back lit stalks.
November Flax 3
#170 November Flax 3
November Flax 4
#169 November Fax 4
This was the last in the series did yesterday (they are not in the right order here). One of the few times I have used “layers”. I like it, probably why I signed it.
C4
C4 is a well known cafe in Christchurch.
The style – which I am getting better – well, faster – at & quite like does not satisfy me here as it does in this people one. I want to persevere against that feeling!
November Flax 2
#171 November Flax 2
November Flax
#168 November Flax
The actual thing I drew is about a meter high, I just noticed that it could well be a blade of grass.
Somehow flax has caught my interest, if you had not noticed. And now almost three months into the project I realise I will catch a full year of its life cycle – hence November – it is a stage just as the buds are about to bloom, although there are variations depending on location. This one was in the Port Hills.
Added the Flax Category – but I will need to backdate them.