Category Archives: oil painting

Organpipes

Posted on 10 November 2014 by sgolding

In 2009 a friend commissioned me to work on a landscape for her.  She selected a drawing of the Organpipes national park, of a rockface and cliff edge.  I worked up this image for her.  People seeing it are, I … Continue reading →

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en pointe

Posted on 5 November 2014 by sgolding

I was starting to work up an image as underpainting for a new work.  It is abandoned so I have painted over it.  So this is the last puff of smoke in the wind remaining of it.       … Continue reading →

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Portrait of Karen 2

Posted on 27 August 2014 by sgolding

I took another photo of this portrait and thought it apt to note the use of forms within it and the use of overpatterning:

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Camelias in the garden

Posted on 20 August 2014 by sgolding

We put espaliered Camelias along the fence on guide wires at a previous house.  I took an element of  the Camelias on the wire and worked it up on the shaped canvas, using it as a field. Why do I … Continue reading →

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