Tag Archives: watercolour

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 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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A walk in the damp underbrush…

Posted on 12 August 2011 by sgolding

of a landscape. Here is a watercolour i did of Wilson’s prom in 2006.  I worked this in terms of the use of negative spaces and the manipulation of liquid colour across the surface to gain a lovely hue and … Continue reading →

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caring about 2 figs

Posted on 1 August 2011 by sgolding

I drew some lush ripe figs on a tablecloth at a winery in the Adelaide hills at lunch with friends.  A lovely afternoon and a nice little watercolor on rough watercolorpaper about the size of an A4 sheet and this … Continue reading →

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