Category Archives: oil painting

a portrait comes together for me from

Posted on 28 August 2011 by sgolding

a series of drawings of the subject.  But it is more than a representation of the individual floating on a painted background.  Items about the subject and signifying them are also used in some portraits as well as the environment in … 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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how now…

Posted on 8 August 2011 by sgolding

A friend persuaded me to make this cow, as she likes them.  I experimented with materials as the essence of this work is the use of  an outline of the cow, which is a cutout  as a layer  patterned paper, … Continue reading →

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