Tortured Match With Ember

Tortured Match With Ember

Oil on ivory mounted on rosewood

$120

Burnt Match on Lapis Lazuli

Burnt Match on Lapis Lazuli

 Oil on ivory mounted on Rosewood

 $120

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While I was in london I visited a wonderful art supply shop, Cornelissen's , which has apparently been in buisiness since 1855.  I wanted to get something I couldn't get normally and so I got some genuine lapis lazuli pigment. Lapis lazuli has always been a very rare and expensive pigment and was one of the earliest permament blues that artists could use before they had modern synthetic pigments such as ultramarine. It is a very beautiful and subtle blue and was most often used as a thin glazing colour in draperies and robes. I have heard stories that it was so precious that artists would save the sediment from turpentine they washed their brushes in!  This was my first try out, using it thinly in the background for a match painting on ivory.

Single Burnt Match

Single Burnt Match

Oil on Ivory and Rosewood

image is 58x22mm

Rosewood mount 58x30mm

$150

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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.

Dead Crossed Matches

Dead Crossed Matches

oil on ivory piano key

28x21mm

 $90

Burnt Leaf

Burnt Leaf

Oil on linen on hardboard

100x100mm

$150

Charcoal Stick With Shadow

Charcoal Stick With Shadow

55x80mm

Oil on linen on card

$100

Any time I paint a burnt matchstick I am quite assured it will sell, however I can't sell a stick of charcoal. Go on! Prove me wrong!

Not Much of a Match

Not Much of a Match
Oil on linen on MDF

50x80mm

$1

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This one's on NZtrademe. You don't get much for a dollar nowadays...

Burnt Out Match

Burnt Out Match
Oil on gessoed board
60x85mm

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Annunciation

Annunciation
Oil on gessoed board

105x100
$200

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