#0970 Forget-me-not
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Archive for the ‘Flowers’ Category
Forget-me-not
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Native Clematis
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
#0969 Native Clematis
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Kowhai
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
#0967 Kowhai
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I am posting on the 8th November – but these were done almost a week ago at Mt. Lyford. Since then the exhibit has gone up and we had a good opening night!
The year of sketching is coming to a close and one thing on my mind in this last leg is to return. Return in many ways, to the earlier sketches, and to normal life!
Here is an earlier Kowhai.
From about a year ago.
Orchard
Friday, October 26th, 2007
#0925 Orchard
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There is something quite nice about not having to face the complete new. One I will complete this whole project, and within it some, at least of the smaller frames, such as doing every flower in our garden.
Open
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
#0920 Open
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Jasmine.
Little Violet
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
#0912 Little Violet
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Thornless Rose
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
#0913 Thornless Rose
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Blue
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
#0911 Blue
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Violet
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
#0909 Violet
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#0908
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
#0908
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Getting the names, will put them up later.
Magnolia
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
#0865 Magnolia
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It is spring and these magnolias are well gone now. This one was done before the crash.
California Poppy
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
#0634 California Poppy
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This was from a photo taken on the Muir Beach walk last week. A tiny delicate little thing, smaller than it it appears here, with deep colouration. I was told it was the State flower… and Wikipedia agrees:
The California poppy is the California state flower. It was selected as the state flower by the California State Floral Society in December 1890, winning out over the Mariposa lily (genus Calochortus) and the Matilija poppy (Romneya coulteri) by a landslide, but the state legislature did not make the selection official until 1903. Its golden blooms were deemed a fitting symbol for the Golden State. April 6 of each year is designated “California Poppy Day.”
Bouganvillia
Saturday, August 4th, 2007
#0589 Bouganvillia.
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11″ x 8.5″ image on 13″ x 19″ archival matte paper.
We had this growing all over the place where I gre up in Australia – nice to see it here.
Flower
Saturday, July 14th, 2007
#530 Flower
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11″ x 11″ image on 13″ x 19″ archival matte paper.
I wanted to paint something else entirely, a person I think. But I like what happened. It is this messing with oils that I am enjoying. And there are a few more messing around ones coming up.
Greetings
Monday, July 9th, 2007
#527 Greetings
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Golden Ending
Saturday, May 19th, 2007Harekeke, New Zealand Flax. I feel connected with it and just took a swag of photos on our recent walks. More coming up.
#471 Golden Ending
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This one like the earlier Circle was one where I found the final image by deleting layers, and also by changing the original colour from a heavy black to this golden colour, which really suits this particular subject, this particular flax that is, the variety of the remnants after seeding is enormous. Some are very black. The exploring was satisfying!
This one is printed to suit a 10 x 8 frame and has collage of (treated) dried flax material.
Monday, 18 August, 2008
This image is availalable printed in a limited edition. It is available exclusively on Felt, a New Zealand Art & Craft website.
Lantana – sketchblogging, inner stirrings, paint & inspiration
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
#416 Lantana
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I think that is what is is called, it is among these that the body is found in the movie Lantana (Great Movie)
This is the last one from the Sydney trip in this batch, we now move on to horses a week later in New Zealand – that is the trouble with mt journalling here – I can’t just post up as I go, just too busy. So the journal is all out of chronological order.
Never mind. Even if the chronology is messy there is are journeys running through this year of the sketch:
- Lots in New Zealand & Christchurch
- Some trips to Wellington
- Christmas I did a real sketch trip to Aoraki – Mt. Cook, this was a good warmup to more travel sketching
- Then Napier, but just did not manage to sketch much at all – too much NZAP Conference work.
- Australia for a week, late March 2007, beaches, bush, cityscapes, flowers & wildlife – more to catch up on.
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The sketchblogging is important to me, I like it & will keep going with it post TS.
The recent line & wash suits that – a sort of sketchbook style.
It will stand me in good stead as I go to San Francisco and New York in July, August.
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I feel something new coming up though. More focus on something within combined with more explorations of paint, digital paint.
What follows are a few samples of the sort of painting by others I am enjoying . Inspiration – other people’s work follows:
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Bottlebrush
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
#415 Bottlebrush
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That is what we called them as kids, I think they may be Banksias.
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Hibiscus – and a note on Journaling
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
#406 Hibiscus
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It is almost a week since we were in Narrabeen on the coast just above Sydney when I began this sketch & the next few. Which is a pity as I feel like Journaling the trip, but it is too late, I am back in New Zealand and back at work.
I have wondered what will become of my interest in sketching & art once the 1000 are done. Well here is one thing that is almost certain, I will start a Sketchblog, a sketch journal. It has begun here in a way, but it will have a different life outside of this project.
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Harakeke
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
#355 Harakeke
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Harakeke is the Maori name for New Zealand flax. I have a category for it on the right, Flax, click that & you will see a wide variety of ways I have connected with this iconic plant.
This one was flowering but on display outside a shop called Harakeke in the new High street development in Christchurch.
I am pleased with the way my Ink & Wash style is evolving.
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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A4, 21 cm x 29.7 cm archival paper. The image size is 13 cm x 13 cm. Suitable for a smaller frame. The next available print is: 1/25 Purchase Print
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Sunday, 17 August, 2008
This image is availalable printed in a limited edition. It is available exclusively on Felt, a New Zealand Art & Craft website.
Flowers
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
#330 Flowers
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Still using that Dogwaffle pen, I like the way I can make it random. Added the “moleskine” paper in ArtRage.
This is the same little bunch I had in the earlier Still life, something freeing about a 2 min sketch.
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Mt Cook Daisy
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
#313 Daisy
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This is Celmesia Lyallii, I think I have that right from my days as an assistant to Hugh Wilson when he was surveying the plants of the Mt Cook region in the late ’60s, early ’70s.
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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A4, 21 cm x 29.7 cm archival paper. The image size is 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm. The next available print is: 1/25 Purchase Print
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Lillies
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
#312 Lillies
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This is not really a Lily, but a buttercup. Ranunculus Lyallii
it is iconic in New Zealand and iwas the emblem for Mt Cook Airlines and buses until Air New Zealand took them over. I want to find one of those old logos, can’t find it on the web.
I was pleased to find these on my walk up to the Ball Shelter.
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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A4, 21 cm x 29.7 cm archival paper. The image size is 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm. The next available print is: 1/25 Purchase Print
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Manuka 2
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
#252 Manuka 2
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Known also as tea-tree and the New Zealand Christmas tree as it always flowers around this time of the year, our place at Mt. Lyford is surrounded by trees with slightly pinkish white flowers.
It is these very flowers that put the small pink emblem into #246 below.
I prefer the previous sketch. Simple.
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Manuka
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
#251 Manuka
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Sunday, 17 August, 2008
This image is available printed in a limited edition. It is available exclusively on Felt, a New Zealand Art & Craft website.
Yellow Flax Flower
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
#217 Yellow_Flax_Flower
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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A3+. The next available print is: 1/25
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Christmas Lillies 2
Monday, December 11th, 2006
#199 Lillies 2
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Same vase of flowers but re-done, finer, more time spent, who knows?
One thing that has happened using the “soft pastel” settings is that I feel confident I can repeat fairly easily what I am doing here. Every vase of flowers I see becomes a sketch in my head.he
On this occasion the flowers were not arranged symmetrically so the vase is not in the middle – disturbs me.
Now I am interested in the jug as well as the flowers. Something to follow through here.
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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A3+, 33 cm x 48 cm archival paper. The image size is 28 cm x 28 cm. The next available print is: 1/25
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Christmas Lillies – flowers in a vase – a Kiwi thing
Monday, December 11th, 2006
#198 Lillies
It is a real New Zealand kiwi thing as far as I know to have these big lillies out at Christmas time. I can’t recall having them in Australia, maybe they do now.
The origins of this sketch is a discussion about originality & the way the subject matter may or may not matter. I do a lot of ordinary subjects, why not a vase of flowers.
I thought the flowers would suit a red background. It seems a bit much, but I tried several others & nothing worked as well. This was done in one pencil setting, one width, one angle.
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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A4, 21 cm x 29.7 cm archival paper. The image size is 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm. The next available print is: 1/25
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Flax Flower December
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
Weathered Flax Flowers
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
#0179 Weathered Flax Flowers