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 31 cm by 41 cm (3.5cm deep) it is small:
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 light on the image. The images were individual before framing based on this concept:
ink and wash drawings of Eclair
they began as singletons:
This is the drawing from a visit to Freycinet in Tasmania in 2009 which I developed into a large scale canvas. It is a view across the mountains from the lookout above wineglass bay, in pencil, ink, wash and watercolour:
The canvas is in the portfolio and below:
with activated marks and use of paint enlivening the surface and forms. The painting contains a rebus (visual pun) in the purple sky as a reference to Streeton’s ‘The purple noon’s transparent might‘ – National Gallery of Victoria.
I did an ink wash and watercolour drawing at Bicheno in 2009 called Bicheno storm front.
After it sold in 2012 I was looking at the image and have been working on it on a shaped canvas, transmuting it to an abstracted set of forms. This is where it was a little while back:
