Category Archives: oil painting

Homage to Stan Cross….

A theme of this blog has been the way my paintings develop from drawings.  Look in the portfolio for the finished work: and the final work in place:   and another view on the diagonal showing the shaping of the … Continue reading

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Meow…

A few years ago I drew our cat Eclair, asleep on a cane chair, as a form used to frame the sleeping cat: I have been working on a painting in oils recently based on this drawing.  The drawing uses … Continue reading

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more stages in a portrait ……..

to continue- the final preliminary painting is: The painting was developed from a series of drawings of the quartet, made in concert:   in a range of mediums:   and formats: to finish the images in this post with a compositional sketch: … Continue reading

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a portrait in stages

This is a series of images of a preparatory painting I did for my 2011 archibald entry, of the Flinders Quartet.  It is a smaller oil, only about 50 cm by 90cm worked up from drawings to test ideas.  I … Continue reading

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