Sunday, April 22, 2012

Snuffed Candle

Snuffed Candle
oil on ceramic tile
24x24mm

This month marks the sixth year of Postcard From Puniho.  I will be taking a short sabbatical for a few weeks as I am going to London to see the Queen. Well... the lucien Freud exhibition, and he did paint a portrait of the Queen.

Dead Match on Minor Key

Dead Match on Minor Key
Oil on ivory piano key mounted on ebony

This was painted on one of the smaller narrow strips of ivory piano key.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Making Ends Meet

Making Ends Meet
Oil on two ceramic tiles
each tile 24x24mm

I initiallly painted the eraserhead and then thought I'd paint the other pointy end as well.  They could be displayed seperately or side by side or whatever.... I think it's called "interactive" art...

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Three Matches

 Three Matches
Oil on ivory mounted on ebony
image 50x22mm
Wooden mount 56x33mm
$150
sold

I was rather pleased with the way this one turned out.  When Dale saw it she said it looked very sad, like the Ages of Man.  I just saw three matches.



Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Single Burnt Match


Single Burnt Match
Oil on Ivory and Rosewood
image is 58x22mm
Rosewood mount 58x30mm
$150
sold


I've started to mount the ivory piano keys onto wooden mounts made out of offcuts from my guitar building projects. This one is rosewood and a veneer of oak I think.



Friday, April 13, 2012

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Moss Green Point

Moss Green Point
Oil on Ivory Piano Key
47x22mm
$100
sold

I thought I'd try something a bit bigger today, so I painted this on an old ivory piano key. It's a beautiful surface to work on for miniatures. Note that no elephants were harmed during the making of this. Well... not recently alive elephants....  I used mongoose brushes which is another endangered species.  I covered my hands in white lead just to appease my guilt.

Sunday, April 08, 2012

Carmine Point

Carmine Point
 Oil on ceramic tile
24x24mm
 $60
sold

Sunday, April 01, 2012

Chillie Pepper

Chillie Pepper
Oil on gessoed wood panel
150x90mm

This was painted on a gessoed wooden panel. The genuine gesso made of whiting and rabbitskin glue as apposed to the acrylic gesso.  Normally gesso is too absorbant as a ground for oil colours but I gave it a very thin coat of Golden GAC medium to seal it. It seemed to work very well and I enjoyed painting on it using mongoose and sable brushes. It was one of those peppers on it's way from a green pepper to a red pepper. In fact I noticed the colour changing as I painted it.  They say that all painting is autobiographical.  Perhaps I'm losing my greenness and on my way to being a red hot pepper briefly before the final decay sets in. This one didn't photograph particularly well. The painting looks better.