20 minute life drawing sketches

charcoal and conte

on paper

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Guarding My Heart

Not finished.......yet

Watercolour and guache

on paper

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Acquiring Sanity....
the first in a series to come

Watercolour and gauche

on paper

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Angel in the Clouds

Mixed media

on Arches 300 gsm paper



I don't think this is finished yet.....
but sometimes you just need to leave things till they say what comes next
So, that's where it's at...



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A Teardrop Away

Mixed Media

on paper





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This is a silly one

I was playing with purple and green

and stuff

But its all I've got for now.....

I am painting.......slowly

Charcoal on paper

This was a quick 20 minute sketching exercise that never really got finished

I kept it because I liked parts of it and because the ladies
just had such giant breasts! You never know when you will need to
reference a giant breast or two
or four


Don't actually know why I'm posting it :)

Lack of other material I guess.....sigh

am painting as fast as I can

Marie's Dragonfly

Watercolour and guache

on paper




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Jac's Angel


Watercolour and metallic pigment

on Arches 300 gsm paper



This is a painting I did for a friend who needed
a little light in her life

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Playing with light and form in the early days

Pastel and gesso

on paper

S'cuse the plastic

...must find time to do proper pics one day :)

Charcoal

on paper


A 30 minute life drawing class exercise

I know, he looks.......ummmm...... like he's dead.

Still, kind of dramatic...


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The Cottage Painting

This one hangs in Rose Cottage

So do lots of my favourite people


Acrylic on canvas


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Yep, we all know where the 'inspiration' for this one came from.
Another mum painting

Watercolour and pastel
on paper

This was a 'copy' of one of Susan Seddon Boulet's artworks.
I absolutely love that woman's art!
I used water colour washes, chalk and oil pastel and acrylic here, she uses oil pastels I believe.
Anyway, I did it for mum, because she loved the painting too and it was a fun experiment.
But a COPY okay :)
Not my original work.
I think I've made that clear enough now, given all the copyright stuff going on lately!

These two were heavily influenced by some works I found in a really old chinese watercolour book. I don't know what happened to the book, I think I loaned it to someone who never returned it, most annoying.
So, unfortunately I can't tell you the name of the book or the artist.

These are watercolour and chalk pastel on paper
and they hang in mum's house, not to be sold.

Iris'

Oil Pastel

on paper


These are mum's too.....

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Ink

on paper

Another one of mum's :)

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Hibiscus

Mixed Media

on paper


This is one I did for my mum years ago....it is quite large

The next few will be hers too.....s'cuse the glass reflection in the pic
but I'm not taking it out of the frame :)

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Spirit of the Eagle

This one was a custom order from a lady who
wanted all her own 'symbology' on it.

Goddess Drum

(sorry about the shine)

I used to make drums and paint them

I may make them again one day, but I doubt it

The next few images shown here will be of some of these drums

They even sound great too!

Dragonfly

Lino cut print

Student Work

This one gave me blisters :)



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Nude

Oil Pastel

on paper


This one was a little long in the body but I like it anyway, it was a fun 'play'

........and she was a long (not quite that long though ;) skinny girl.

Must get back to a life drawing class one of these days!

Mary and child

Mixed media


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Still Life

Mixed media

on paper





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Dragonfly Lithograph

Student Work

Red Flower

Oil stick

on paper


This one was used as a raffle prize for a teacher of mine whose studio burned down.
20 years of work went up in smoke!
It was devastating for her.

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Untitled
(and maybe unfinished?)

Watercolour and guache

on paper

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Pears

Just some old pears I had hanging around....playing with ink and stuff :)

The Gathering

Mixed Media

on paper


Now living with ex husband as a birthday present :)



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These are some 'pieces' of still life drawings I did a couple of years ago. I wasn't happy with the drawings in their entirety but quite liked them cut down.

Chalk Pastel and Conte

on artboard


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This one lives in Perth with my father.
I can't remember what I called it now :(
It may have been "Spring"



Mixed Media

on paper



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Butterfly Dreaming

Acrylic and Oil Stick

on canvas




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Transformation

Mixed Media

on paper on canvas


SOLD


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Dragons Breath

Watercolour and Metallic Pigment

on paper


SOLD


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Breakthrough

Mixed media

on paper




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Nude

Charcoal, Oil Stick and Shellac

on paper




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In the Centre

Mixed Media

on paper on canvas


SOLD



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