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Two Figs and two art works

Posted on 3 March 2017 by sgolding

This post is about moving from drawing to painting using an example. I did a still life drawing of two figs on a plate, with ink and watercolour.  it is tightly cropped to dimension the space, similar to the cropping … Continue reading →

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Figs…

Posted on 16 December 2015 by sgolding

The watercolour of Five Figs in my exhibition was sought after.  I had in 2006 done a small ink on canvas from it, in a4 landscape format.

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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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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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