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 »
Posted in Art, Daily Life, Weather, tagged pigments, landscape, Kilkenny, surveys, photographs, colours, paints, stains, canvas, light, winter structures on January 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Okay, it’s the 2nd January, nearly the end of all the festivities. Time to start working again. I started back on the surveys today and what an amazing day to be driving around the Kilkenny countryside. The sun was shining orange and gold the air was freezing and clear it was just gorgeous. Inspirational for [...]
Printing…
Posted in Art, tagged screen printing, natural pigments, pigments, Vancouver, studio, colour, landscape, grinding, grinding pigments, printing, process 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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