Today I met with the fortnightly Hotham Park sketchers group. The sun looked lovely but as I sat in the shade drawing thisI got chilly in the wind. The Park looks wonderful but in need of a good shower as we have not had rain for a long time.
Yesterday I started a new painting of a bare hazel tree which had lovely greens and yellows and complex twisting shapes. I decided to wing it and began to draw straight onto the natural linen canvas with an oil stick and thinners. This is the work after two sessions. using alkyd paints which dry overnight…
In the previous post of this sketch I threatened to have another go so tried to do more work in my studio. The good thing about a blog like this that one can share failure as well as success. Persoanally rate this a flop though I have learned a few things along the way. I…
I have recently bought a new muli-media A3 sketch pad which is a soft brown colour and so far I like it very much. I have been trying out pastels and today I did three quick studies in the park. Here they are along with one I did earlier this week.
It’s been a while since I went sketching in the Park what with taking part in the art trail and dodgy weather but today I was able to spend several hours drawing in the hot sunshine. I’m glad I caught the spring greens before they all turn summer dark.
The park is noisy with the shouting of children as its school holidays but they cannot hope to compete with the tree top congregation of crows and rooks.
I think one of the jobs artists do is to make people look at things they would otherwise pass by, to open their eyes to see things more clearly. The other day in the park I took quite a lot of photos of the bare trees. The branches look wonderful in the sun with all…
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…
