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Finished portrait and earthquakes
I’ve been working on a portrait of a collegue of mine who died from cancer last year. It’s been a hard project as it brings back so many memories of my friend and because of earthquakes! The painting is going … Continue reading
Collaborative art works
Click on thumbnail to see the full size image This post is all about the two collaborative works I’ve completed. The one above, titled, The Muse’ is for the local art school (the background image is a large coffee cup), … Continue reading
Commission finished – slighty delayed due to shaky ground
I finished the painting of the kakapo family for my commission – the finishing off was somewhat delayed with the earthquake we’ve just been through. Funnily enough it was the first object I looked for in the house when I … Continue reading
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Tagged art, birds, commission, kakapo, New Zealand, oils
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A Tui Moment
Yipee, I finished my tui painting, ‘a tui moment’ – click on the picture to load a large version, then click on the picture again to read the text. This painting is the first one I’ve done with a real … Continue reading
Tui
I’m currently working on a couple of paintings, one is of tui, which are one of my favourite NZ birds. If you’ve never seen a tui they are surprising birds. If you look at them quickly you could be forgiven for mistaking … Continue reading
New painting – gravity
First new painting in a while, mainly as life seems to have an annoying habit of getting in the way of painting time! The media for this is all oils and I used a hogs hair brush on the background … Continue reading