After doing the colour samples all the rest of my art time is taken up with looking at the landscape and taking photos as visual references. The autumn landscape shone with bleached fields cut to the ground and vertical and horizontal stripes of colour everywhere you looked. During the heavy frosts the colours were amazing blends of [...]
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Landscapes
Posted in Art, Weather, tagged Art, Autumn, colour, frost, horizontal, landscape, observation, Samples, skylines, snow, Spring, vertical, Winter on February 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Paint samples
Posted in Art, tagged canvas, colour, Oil paint, Raw Linseed oil, Samples, stains, Stand oil on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another day and I have done some more samples on canvas, though still not achieving the marks I want to make. I tried mixing oils with white spirit and oil paint with raw linseed oil and oil paint with stand oil. It’s basically trying to thin the paint to the consistancy I require without losing [...]
Printing…
Posted in Art, tagged colour, grinding, grinding pigments, landscape, natural pigments, pigments, printing, process, screen printing, studio, Vancouver on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Morning all, beautiful sunny day outside.
I have been working this morning, experimenting with natural pigments. I bought the pigments in powdered form in Vancouver when I was there a few years ago, and, of course, they have been sitting in my studio ever since. Now, at last, I have decided to try them out, the [...]
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