Southland skies are stunning
Southland skies are stunning! We’re a rainy and blustery lot down here. Thankfully, the difficult weather doesn’t hang around for long.
02/11/2021
Creating Art Around Life
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Balancing a Hectic Life AND creating art is tough, but it can be done! Purshing through obstacles and getting back into the studio to create meaningful art is a big part of of who I've become in the past 30 years
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Big sky at the Stead Street Wharf
Stead Street Wharf inspired my Day 12 painting. As one of my favourite spots to cloud gaze, I chose one of many photographs of the cloud show.
02/11/2021
Painting Southland Skies
Painting Southland skies was as challenging as they are amazing. Fantastic formations often compel me to steer off to the side of the road to enjoy the show.
01/11/2021
The best thing about a painting challenge
The best thing about a painting challenge is that I’ve learnt to make art differently. Sometimes daunted, always rewarded, I ditched routine.
29/10/2021
How daily painting liberated me
Daily painting liberated me to take more risks because I didn’t have a great investment in material or time. The small sized paintings alleviated problems.
28/10/2021
Learning impasto painting
Learning impasto painting for these daily paintings, rather than usual method of using increasingly thicker paint over previous thin layers, build confidence.
27/10/2021
Using digital reference photography
Using digital reference photography requires adjustment to give paintings more dimensionality. An infinite light and colour range is compressed to a manageable.
26/10/2021
making this challenge fit life
Making this challenge fit life was paramount. Each work takes and hour to paint. Then, there’s video edit and upload, usually took four hours.
25/10/2021
Choosing Monochrome
I’m choosing monochrome for this Day 5 work from our trip deeper into the Kyeburn Diggings. Yesterday, I cut back the the chroma to show the muted colours.
22/10/2021