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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
Posted in art, drawing, oil painting, shaped canvas
Tagged art process, drawing, oil painting, painting process
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
Posted in art, art process, cat, drawing, oil painting
Tagged art process, cats, drawing, oil painting
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
Posted in art, art process, drawing, musicians, oil painting
Tagged art process, drawing, flinders quartet, musicians, oil painting, painting process, portrait, watercolour
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
Posted in art, art process, drawing, musicians, oil painting
Tagged art process, flinders quartet, musicians, oil painting, painting process, portrait, watercolour