Glass with Lemon

Glass with Lemon

The first of a series of still lifes I am doing as I explore WetCanvas, a website for artists. This is a new stage for me, more on that.

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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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Jug 2

Jug 2

This one popped out as I was thinking aloud about being bolder with my lines & colour. It is a sketch!

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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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Jug – in digital pastel

Jug – in digital pastel

I look at my recent still lives & feel a need for perfecting them & also loosening them up, and also that this is not quite the direction I want to go in. To do a still life first there is an “arrangement” to do lighting comes into that, and the lighting needs attention. I think I prefer to find things. One thing I like about this one is the attention to the backdrop, in the Teapot it was just digital paper, this time I’ve played around with pastels.

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

I guess I am influenced in these by Duane Keiser – as are many people in the Daily Painting group it would seem. I love his work & his flair – and he has boosted the ethos of Internet distribution. I respect that. I think he has his character in his images yet they are also very realistic. Compositions are good too. I will post one of his images here:

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Teapot sketch in digital pastel

Teapot sketch in digital pastel

Looking at the jug in the last two sketches led to this one. Still want to do the jug too. Clicking the pastel & setting it to very soft is how I did this one. Tried oils but that was too hard.

Here is a detail – me! A self portrait:

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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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Christmas Lillies 2

Christmas Lillies 2

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

Christmas Lillies – flowers in a vase – a Kiwi thing

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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Blue Candle

Blue Candle

Blue candle in the bathroom. I watched this candle while relaxing in the bath, saw the light on the dark & had it sketched in my mind before I drew it.

I used the “pastels” button a lot and they work on the “black paper” background.

Now I want to do more candles and somehow clinch the deal, so that I can do them at will.