#0999 Return
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A more satisfying version of the hills, of their power.
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007Mt Pete
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
#0976 Mt Pete
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I am at Vic’s café in Christchurch. Pleased to be working on my blog at the end of my sabbatical. I have a few to post up! A few of the ones I am posting, perhaps all of them, are on the theme of Return. I am coming to the end of my project, hence returning to work, to normal, to the familiar. Mt Pete is familiar, we see it from the other side of our house, its moods never the same.
Gum Fern Bush
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
#0959 Gum Fern Bush
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One from the Australian trip in March earlier this year. Under the three Sisters in the Blue Mountains. All the Australian sketches are in a category.
Mt. Lyford
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
#0952 Mt. Lyford
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Bush
Monday, October 29th, 2007
#0944 Bush
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This was yesterday, “plein air” as I crawl into the bush next to the house, with the machine on an extension cord. Still mistly The Pen.
Lyttleton Harbour
Monday, October 29th, 2007
#0941 Lyttleton Harbour
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I have a few earlier sketches of the harbour. Kate & I have been walking in the Port Hills, familiarising ourselves with the terrain for the the “Over the top Ride” which is now in full-swing at Otahuna Riding.
Once I got into the swing of this pen I want ed to try it out in all sorts of ways. What is more subtle here is the gradation offered in ArtRage. I wanted the distance to recede more so added a gradient of haze. What I like about the “stencil” that does this is that the result is not purely mechanical & mathematical, the gradient is still produced by hand, but with a bit of help! A tool!
The edition of this image is available exclusively Felt, a rather wonderful New Zealand Art & craft site:
Trees
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
#0931 Trees
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They are not native pines, and they are some sort of imported willow, but in full bloom the colour on the drive along the Inland Road is wonderful.
Bush
Friday, October 26th, 2007
#0924 Bush
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Had to return to the previous one. Seemed there was another step. This was on my mind:
It is not a matter of painting life. It’s a matter of giving life to painting.
Pierre Bonnard
Gully
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
#0905 Gully
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This is the Gully at Mt. Lyford Horse Riding. I have some of these trees in their more winterly form.
Gully
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
#0904 Gully
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Hills5
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
#0902 Hills5
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It took a long time to do that first one. Then just as with the other hills recently, (in post 1000!) I look at the outcome & rework it a bit.
Hills
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
#0901 Hills
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Driving home from Mt. Lyford – miles of hills. Home.
Hagley Park Sunset
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
#0900 Hagley Park Sunset
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I have had this one, or something from this evening walk on my mind for a while. Those trees have more leaves now. I find it hard to keep up, I have more I want to do from New York, even from Sydney in March! However I like to do ones from right now, and now it is blooming with green everywhere. It really is spring, and while I don’t know really what sort of work I do, I know that I want to catch this growth! This shift from the bald trees to the new sprouting fresh green. Maybe a few earth crosses :) And it is #0900, so that is fitting, the end is in sight, but I can’t see it at all.
Hills6
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
0890 Hills6
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These images arose driving back to Christchurch from Mt. Lyford and being struck by the colour and flow of the hills. The first image took a while but then ad libbed more to do the next one and this one is an elaboration of a bit of the last one.
Landscape. Place. Wolf Kahn’s America : an artist’s travels has plenty of art talk to chew on as well as great pastels.
Here is one idea I like, gives a nice depth to landscapes & may lead to some integration.
These reproductions take me right to the times and places I want to remember. They serve also to document moments that the painter Robert Henri in his book The Art Spirit called “states of higher awareness.” Of these moments, Henri wrote, “The pictures are a witness.” It is dear to me that an artist’s pictures are thus the repositories of much more than what he saw before him. A picture represents more than what the conscious mind grasped – at the time – the so-called subject matter.
Wolf Kahn
Hills4
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
#0889 Hills4
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Hills
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
#0888 Hills
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Have been working with this one for a while, resurrected it. Thinking about pastel. A while back someone said that my landscape pastels reminded them of Wolf Kahn. I manged to find a book by him the other day, and I love his work. One side in the war aspires to be a Wolf Kahn. I don’t think I’ll quit on that aspiration either.
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.
Some of his Kahn’s images (poor snaps) follow.
Evening Landscape
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
#0866 Evening Landscape
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More sketching using an earlier one.
There is a tension between my work with abstracts and the more sketchbook work. I am obsessed with my explorations of the simple lines of a cross. There is the desire to develop something from my earlier landscapes, desire but not the will. This one is here – because I am sketching… it is a step, who knows if there is another step.
Evening Landscape on the way to Mt. Lyford
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
#0845 Evening Landscape
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River
Monday, October 1st, 2007
#0827 River
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I suppose this is not unlike the earlier one based on flying along the Alps the other day. Perhaps no worse for my not having a screen to put the pen onto. But I am still returning the pad to Dick Smith, it is not suitable for my task.
I have spent the day on building up this old Dell laptop, it does have a great screen! 15″ 1600 x 1200. I guess that is what has me looking at the Cintiq.
Canterbury Plains from the air
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
#0801 Canterbury Plains from the air
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Lyford
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
#0741 Lyford
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I want to keep moving in this direction, beyond this. See the triangles? They are really there (out in the world I mean)! Yet to make them more mathematical and hard edged would be wrong. Getting that landscape down is a goal, though this one is a good start.
Mt. Lyford
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
#0726 Mt. Lyford
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I did the last two “plein air”, however in the second one I had the first image as one of the layers as a reference for the lines. In an aha moment I combined the two as layers and did some post production. I like the result.
This image is available printed in a limited edition. It is available exclusively on Felt, a New Zealand Art & Craft website.
Mt. Lyford
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
#0725 Mt. Lyford
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Mt. Lyford
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
#0724 Mt. Lyford
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Mt. Lyford
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
#0723 Mt. Lyford
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Mt. Lyford
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
#0722 Mt. Lyford
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Back at Mt. Lyford and sketching from life, sitting inside, looking out. This is the saddle. Here is the first of a few I did yesterday.
North Wester
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
#0721 North Wester
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Driving up to Mt. Lyford yesterday we had a spectacular NW sky. To red to be believed, and over the top.
Here is how it looked though! I put it here as another sky led to a satisfying set of images, though not all as satisfying as the best of them.
Train View
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
#0719 Train View
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I put the view inside the picture.
Playfully … after Matisse
I like the idea. Not only windows but paintings, computers & TV. Some of my portraits show bits of TV, so that is a start.
Hudson River
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
#0717 Hudson River
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I took the train to Beacon to see the Dia there. Great day. I enjoyed the view from the window and the hazy nothingness of the Hudson as we left New York. While on the train I painted this image in my mind. Exactly like this. What surprised me is that 20 min out of the city there is hardley a house to be seen and there is bush, not farmland.
From plein air to abstract landscape in Buena Vista Park
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007I walked to the top of Buena Vista Park just above Height today. Saw the people & their dogs. I had a glimpse of the park yesterday and the first sketch in this series was from memory of something I’d like to do when I walked in the park.
Here is the final image – I will put that here, and link to the day’s work all on one page. There were also some “combinations of “layers” I found striking, so I have added them in.
See all nine Buena Vista sketches.
#0633 Buena Vista IX
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