Cotton Bud and Match

Cotton Bud

Watercolour on Velin de Lana

95x130mm or 3.5x5"

$80

Diagonal Match
Watercolour on Velin de Lana
95x130mm or 3.5x5"

$80

Cotton Bud With Match
Watercolour on Velin de Lana
95x130mm or 3.5x5"

$80

I painted a cotton bud I'd been using to smudge pastel. I wasn't very happy with the first attempt so I abandoned it and started again resulting in the version at the top here. Then I went back to the earlier version and worked on it some more and added the balancing match. Then I felt like painting a match by itself.

Two Small Watercolours

Surf Highway With Cows

Watercolour on Velin de Lana

130x180mm or 5x7"

$80

Pink Peg
Watercolour on Saunders Paper
130x180mm or 5x7"
$80

A view out the window and another go at the pink plastic clothespeg.

4B Pencil

4B Pencil
Watercolour on Velin de Lana

130x180mm or 5x7"

$100

sold

This one's got my name on it.

Two Sketches of My Parents

Dad, Mum

Watercolour on paper

NFS

I did these rapid sketches of my parents the other day.

Red Capsicum

Red Capsicum
Pastel and watercolour on paper

170x160mm or approx 6.5x6.5"

$100

Another of the oddities I've been doing recently. It was started in watercolour but didn't go very well and I reworked it with chalk pastel, another interesting medium I havn't used for about ten years or more. Click here to see some early work in pastel. It may not be a great work of art but it's a nice feeling to reaquaint myself with these mediums.

Lost Marbles

A bit of an odd assortment. I've been struggling a bit with the watercolour medium and I'm finding it a bit unnerving, and feeling a bit insecure about learning as I go whilst maintaining my postings here. But I've come to the conclusion that that is partly what the philosophy of Daily Painting Blogging is about.

White Marble

115x115mm or 4.5x4.5"

Watercolour on Saunders Paper

$100

An aspect of watercolour is you've got to decide where the white highlights go from the outset. This is pretty much the exact reverse of oil painting where the final highlights are put in towards the end. I got some frisket masking medium to try out. The idea is you paint this rubbery stuff where you want the paper to stay white and peel it off at the end. I tryed it on the marble but wasnt at all happy with it and ended up resorting to using an opaque white, effectively changing the painting to more of a guache style. This painting itself was painted on the verso of this other aborted attempt. Just little slightly laboured studys. So if anyone wants to purchase this piece of paper, you can show it either way around, but one way or another you're going to lose some of your marbles...

Verso

Marbles

190x115mm

Watercolour on Saunders Paper

Nasturtiums in Small Vase

Nasturtiums in Small Vase

Watercolour on Velin de Lana paper

165x175mm or 6.5x7"

$100

sold

Painting small watercolours of flowers is possibly the most radical thing an artist can do in this day and age...

With or without the "u".