A feel of the Pacific

Ok keeping with my recycled wood block prints

Woodcut (Recycle block)

Safewash ink on 220gm Print paper

Ed of 5

Sap Rising

Still work in the garden weeds are growing well, seeds are poking there heads up in the trays all is well.

Small Flowers Oct 2010-#4

Soft pastel on blue Mi-Teintes wrong side (10”x8”)

Oct 2010

More Dusting

Yep I have made my mind up I would rather painting than digging but I have told myself that it has to be done and I an a hard taskmaster on myself haha.

Small Flowers Oct 2010-#3
Soft Pastels on light blue grey Fabriano pastel paper (8"x 10")
Oct 2010

Spring Dusting

Ok we have had a couple of nice spring days back to back and I have been working in the garden to get it ready for trying to grow stuff haha. But wile doing that I felt that I needed to do some painting but setting up all takes time and is boring so I decided to play with my soft pastels as there is a lot less setup and clean up involved with them which give me more time to paint or to dig in the garden.

Small Flowers Oct 2010-#1
Soft Pastels on light blue grey Fabriano pastel paper (10"x 8")
Oct 2010

Yellow Lillie

Well it’s Thursday again and I’m playing with my soft pastels again. This is a close crop of a yellow Lillie it is done in soft pastels on a terra cotta Mi-Teintes wrong side

"Yellow Lillie"

soft pastels on a terra cotta Mi-Teintes wrong side ( 8”x10”)

A Day out of Town

Yesterday I got up early and loaded up my van with art stuff and drove south for about 2 hours to a small life style farm block in the country where a friend have her art studio which she opens up to us. A group of artist that meet up once a month to talk, catch up and do some of our art, it is a large studio in a lovely place set in the shadow of the mountain, trees and live stock running around and it has a nice tranquil feel about the place. Spent about 5 hours together had lunch, it’s was a really great time.

Soft pastel on blue Mi-Teintes wrong side (10”x8”)

yellow lilie on blue

Well it’s Thursday again and I’m playing with my soft pastels again. I must admit I do kinda like them more the more that I play with them.

Soft pastel on blue Mi-Teintes wrong side (8”x10”)

Wednesday afternoon are back to normal my art group has started up again. It was nice to catch up with some old faces that I have not seen since the end of last term did not get a lot of work done in the 3 hours plenty of talking. Walking around and laughing I did get to try something.

Roses are Red

Ok it February 14th time for all those chubby little babies with bows and magic arrows to be out and about looking for the unaware, Valentines day were love is in the air. Me be being a nice guy decided to do a painting for my wife, so yesterday I shut myself in my studio to get on with it, my wife worked it out that I was doing some thing for her, I have never had so many cups of tea made and brought down to my studio on the pretence of trying to see her painting.

Got to love her for trying.

Happy Valentines Day

“Roses are Red”
Acrylics on ( 8”x16”) Stretched Canvas
Feb 2009