Tag Archives: art process

a portrait in stages

Posted on 9 September 2011 by sgolding

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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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 look at wine country..

Posted on 27 August 2011 by sgolding

or a drawing of the corkscrew in Adelaide Hills.  This is a steep climb with switchbacks, very scenic and interesting to try and dimension/depict onto a flat piece of paper. and a detail or two of the upper left showing … Continue reading →

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the paper Tardis

Posted on 23 August 2011 by sgolding

happened to take me back to Adelaide in 2004, when I opened a sketchbook in my collection of drawings a person in the crowd at a writers week talk…                       … Continue reading →

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