Here are the lines and colours left on my mind from the people I've met, and the places I've been, both online and off.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Everyday Items
Ha! Just spent a lot of time uploading a post that never uploaded. Well, I thought it might be a good idea to put in a sort of synopsis of my painting past. The themed work I've done these last few months have all got to do with art exchanges on WetCanvas. Everyday Items was the first art exchange I've ever taken part in. I painted more than twenty postcard sized pictures of things that my life is usually strewn with. All of them were watercolours, and in some I used a pen too. Here are the ones I liked the best.
A boot from Texas, and a lamp from my hotel room, a brass girl reading, and my boy writing, a clay pig, and a fabric horse...
A temple elephant, and a musk melon, a couple of bird-whistles, and lots of paints...
Mangoes in a wooden bowl, fallen jack leaves and a seed, a bumblebee on the Crepe Myrtle tree, and pickles with a spoon all ready.
I paint people, places and things in watercolour, but I also use other media occasionally. In the few years that I worked as a freelance illustrator, I found pastels really useful to saturate my pictures for kiddies with colour. These days, however, it's mostly watercolour and sometimes charcoal that I use. Here are my paintings, a lot of them from art exchanges that I've been on, some of them from notebooks that I carry with me when I travel. I'm waiting to see what journey through art they will finally plot.
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