Self Portrait Sketch

Self Portrait Sketch

Oil on linen on MDF

100x85mm

$100

Plastic Red Dog With Blue Glass Marble

Plastic Red Dog With Blue Glass Marble

Acrylic on linen on MDF

$old

This was another painting for the Kina show.  I painted it with acrylics so it would dry in time.  I havn't used acrylics for many years and I found it quite strange, but I thought the plastic medium would suit a plastic object.  If nothing else, it made me appreciate the qualities and characteristics of oil paint more.  I experimented using different mediums to try and give it some texture and phisical quality to the paint.

Small Pink Plastic Poodle With Glass Marble

Small Pink Plastic Poodle With Glass Marble

Oil on linen on MDF

This painting is for an exhibition at New Plymouth's Kina Gallery featuring dogs.  I would have liked to have painted my dog Fergus, but he refuses to sit still long enough in one pose!

The show opens tonight at 5:30 for anyone living in New Plymouth. Here's the invite:

Burnt Match on Blue

Burnt Match on Blue

Oil on linen on MDF

80x80mm

$100
sold

Here's one for Guy Fawkes night.

Two Coffee Cups

Two Coffee Cups

140x174mm

Oil on linen on MDF

NFS

This was a small commisioned work.

Self Portrait Holding Brush

Self Portrait Holding Brush

Oil on linen on MDF

120x100mm

$100

Self Portrait 19.10.09

Self Portrait 19.10.09

Oil on linen on MDF

115x100mm

$100
sold

Terre Verte, Raw Umber, Transparent Golden Lake, Burnt Sienna, Alizarian Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Ivory Black and White Lead.

Self Portrait With Leftover Paint

Self Portrait With Leftover Paint

Oil on Gessoed Hardboard

200x150mm

$200

sold

I had this big pile of congealed white lead paint that had been sitting on my palette for far too long and I didn't want to waste it, so rather than smearing it up the wall like I usually do, I had another go at facing the dusty mirror. It was painted in failing light and a dramatic thunderstorm.

...And here it is after the sun came out next day.

Withered Tomato Vine

Withered Tomato Vine

Oil on linen on MDF

150x120mm

$200

It's like a dark parody of the Tree of Life I guess, and it pretty much reflects the way I've been feeling lately.

Self Portrait Sketch Sept 23

 

Self Portrait Sketch Sept 23

Oil on gessoed board

170x80mm

$80

I've been having a few emails concerning the picture obscuring the text in the Google Groups postings.  I've tryed something to hopefully fix it.  If you are still unable to read this text let me know.  Of course that last sentence is redundant for obvious reasons....

Self Portrait Sept 09

Self Portrait Sept 09

Oil on gessoed hardboard

170x130

100

Self Portrait Standing

Self Portrait Standing

Oil on linen on MDF

228x88mm

$150

People often complain that I look miserable in my self portraits.  I just paint what I see. Perhaps I don't like what I see?

Reflection in Dusty Mirror

Reflection in Dusty Mirror

Oil on linen on MDF

125x90mm

$100

I enjoy painting quick sketches.  The problem with that, is that because it is enjoyable there is a tendancy to carry it too far and lose the spontaneity.  The mirror was very dusty and with the sun shining onto it, providing only a vague reflection, so it was very much "through a glass darkly".

Dandelion Stalk

Dandelion Stalk

Oil on linen on MDF

110x85mm

$100