Observing water in trendy cafes

Love trendy cafes in Melbourne and their different ways to serve water. Observation paintings completed while drinking coffee.

#MeetTheArtist

I did this one a little earlier this year under the hashtag project #MeetTheArtist

Painting & observing pretty colours

Observational studies are so much fun!

Here is a bunch of observational studies I have been doing for Schoolism's class, Painting with Colour and Light by Dice Tsutsumi & Robert Kondo. Taking the time to see how and why values, colour and lighting change between diffused and direct light, has been a real eye opener for me. I recommend this class so highly! More studies to come!

Finding and painting diffused light

Here are some diffused lighting observational paintings I have completed for the self taught Schoolism class, Colour and Light by Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi. Week 1 and I have already learnt so much! Note finding diffused light outside in Australian summer is really hard!

First life drawing sketches for 2015!

Love sketching and focusing on the lighting and form, graphite and marker combos.

back from CTNx & painting colours on walks

Walking at the beach and walking around my streets, I had to stop and paint the pretty colours.

Painted 5-10mins on Brushes iPhone app

graphite and marker combos

My cool grey marker dieing half way through a drawing was a blessing in disguise. I didn't want the detail of greylead and found a chunky flat graphite pencil and observed the lighting with rough block-ins followed by black marker. It forced me to observe more precisely and be confident with the each marks I made on the paper. Think i will continue this next week.

2 twenties, 1 ten and a five, life drawing

My hat is off to Sir Laurence, drawing study

Here is another Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema study I have drawn. The Painting is titled "A silent greeting." The study was drawn from observation of a colour print out, I forced myself to convert the colours into values. By doing these studies, my drawing skills are growing again, even observation skills. It's amazing how sometimes you don't realise how rusty you are. Will try to keep more of these up through out the year.

gaining confidence in life drawing

 

After stretching myself with marker for most of the year I have returned to greylead for a week of lifedrawing. She was an amazing life-model who wants to join the circus and could hold some amazing poses. Here is a 20 minute pose. 

Learning from the masters

In my latest course, Chris Oatley's Painting Drama 2 he gave me a challenge to do some studies of the great Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. The structure in his highly detailed paintings is extraordinary. This simple challenge has taught me so much, and challenged me. This is the first of my drawings, it is A4, and it was from straight eye observation of a coloured print out. It challenged my drawing skills, observation skills and value knowledge of how colours convert. There are flaws in this drawing and I didn't capture the magic of the original Cleopatra piece, but man did I enjoy the hours put into this drawing. More to come

more markers and life drawing

A little proud of this 20min marker sketch

Absorbing colour everywhere I go

My mind has been observing colour and light like never before, learning so much right now at the Oatley Academy with Chris Oatley, I keep having to stop, paint and record what I'm seeing. Here are my latest iPhone brushes paintings.

Life drawing in 2014!

Sorry I haven't posted any updates lately but that is not because I haven't been creating new art, the opposite, super busy enjoying Chris Oatley's latest class Painting Drama 2. 2014 has started off with a bang and I am practicing daily at improving my drawing skills. Here is the latest life drawing sketches, I have experienced a massive break through in my approach to observing after reading Marcelo Vignali's Fractal Methods books. If you can get your hands on one I highly recommend it, I was lucky to purchase it at CTN in LA last year. Here's a link to his site: http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com.au/2013_09_01_archive.html 

stop, wait... quickly paint on your iphone!

So CTN 2013 was amazing! I will post a recap real soon! But in the mean time here are some brushes paintings I have been doing on my iphone, what better way to use time while waiting.

Tangled sketching

Found myself at work sketching a Rapunzel with a pen while waiting for files to export, and here it is. It was a good challenge so I came home and did some pages of rapunzel sketches from one of the best art of books, Tangled. Glen Keanes sketches have soooo much energy, his drawings were really hard to copy, so much learn from this simple task.

Thailand colour studies

 I just came back from the most amazing wedding in Thailand. A lot of relaxing by the pool and lying around in the sun after being a bridesmaid for my best friend. I did find some time to create some quick colour sketches using the iPhone brushes app. I hope you can feel the sunshine!

My life drawing is improving

Going to life drawing 3 weeks in a row has already made a huge difference on my observation skills! I must keep this up!