Category Archives: art process

why the chop

Posted on 18 August 2011 by sgolding

Louis Armstrong is always said to have been concerned about the state of his chops.  I sign my drawings and painting using a chop; a seal using red ink given to me by a kind translator ms Shanna Lin on … Continue reading →

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a woodblock for colour printing requires

Posted on 14 August 2011 by sgolding

each colour impression to be on a flat block which matches each of the others, a few tries at it tells you this.  So when I painted this study, based on a Ukiyo e print by Utamaro, I reworked the … Continue reading →

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A walk in the damp underbrush…

Posted on 12 August 2011 by sgolding

of a landscape. Here is a watercolour i did of Wilson’s prom in 2006.  I worked this in terms of the use of negative spaces and the manipulation of liquid colour across the surface to gain a lovely hue and … Continue reading →

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caring about 2 figs

Posted on 1 August 2011 by sgolding

I drew some lush ripe figs on a tablecloth at a winery in the Adelaide hills at lunch with friends.  A lovely afternoon and a nice little watercolor on rough watercolorpaper about the size of an A4 sheet and this … Continue reading →

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