Monthly Archives: June 2013

Fleurieu Peninsula

I visited some friends beach house at Carackalinga near Adelaide a few years ago and did some sketches from which I developed this oil.  The texture is made with little scallops of built up paint laid on with a plastic picnic … Continue reading

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Flinders quartet study

I did a couple of oil sketches as preliminary studies for the Flinders Quartet portrait I  did in 2011.  I was reminded of this recently and to add to previous posts about stages in a portrait this is the sketch- at … Continue reading

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Meow 3

I have noticed a trend to landscape in recent posts.  So on to fauna. I recently refinished and framed these 3 sketches based on xray paintings of sleeping cats which I did some years ago.  Sorry a bit of shine from the … Continue reading

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