Point Roadnight – erosion

I used to swim at Point Roadnight as a child and now have taken my children there- and a sketchbook.  While the essence of what I saw is there the sea is eroding the Point and taking sand to sea.  The sand caves I played in and near as a child are washed away.

I wanted to show what I had seen in the drawings in the form of a painting and a shaped canvas.    The featured image is the final and below left  is a late phase before adding wax paint to the centre.  At the right below is an image showing the shaping of the final.  This is an extreme of the adage that painting is thin sculpture….

To the left is a near finished, and below is the finished article, completed with use of wax and oil, and coffer dams.

 

 

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Operation Ho No – xmas 2013

I thought a little xmas card post would be getting into the cheer.  I have titled this one Operation Ho No, as that is what Santa would say if my children caught him (as planned).  I also like the idea of catcam being installed on Daphne.

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egallery..

I am also on the web at Saatchi gallery online at http://www.saatchionline.com/sgolding

 

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tuning up..

I often do a preliminary study from drawings before a major work.  This one was done as a preliminary portrait before a large scale group portrait of the Flinder’s quartet, submitted for the Archibald in 2010. It is about 80 cm by 120 cm in oil on canvas, with overlaid glazes.

The final, much larger,  group portrait “Flinders Quartet in the Round” is on the Portfolio page (link at top of page).  Instead of being contained in an oval, the larger work uses an arch form to set a space as a proscenium arch, within which the quartet performs, as a visual device and as a link to performance space.

 

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