Yesterday I posted some coloured monoprints of a sketch of a small grove of trees in the wintergarden of the Park. Here is the original drawing and a black and white monoprint taken from it
For 2016 I have decided to do some sort of artwork each day not all of them are from Hotham Park but here is one based on a drawing I did of a small grove of trees in the wintergarden area. I have produced several versions and here is one of them. The first version…
Dense patches of dried grasses and reeds from the conservation area of the Park make intricate textures shown in this digitalised mono print.
After all the hard work finishing enough paintings to fill Cloudhopper Gallery and getting them hung on the walls the days I’m spending in the gallery seem very calm. A few more visitors would be nice but there are some who come each day and I’m running two drawing classes each week which are good…
This little painting is now finished. Yippee!
Worked for a few more hours on this the last two days. Its Getting there but still has a way to go
I’ve had two sessions on this painting. I’m not sure I will get this one finished in time for my exhibition but i will have a jolly good try. Due to a technical hitch, mine I accidentally deleted this photo.So i am putting a photo of the scene at an earlier time of year. To…
Last time I posted I was in a tiz about how much I have to do before my exhibition. Enter the technical hitch. Now I class myself as one of those people whom Humphrey Littleton called Techno serfs, that is opposed to those who rank as technocrats. Technocrats manage machines and negotiate through the complexities…
Second day of Hotham Park Country Fair. Today I became the demon paint squirter as I dished out paint to 40+ children who came to the tent to slosh paint around. Between squirting there was washing palettes in a bucket, filling and emptying water pots from a clean bucket, emptying said bucket, giving advice to…
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