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Latest Landscapes For Sale – Cafe’ Mint

MT HUTT
MT HUTT
 Oil on canvas
 200mm x 1000mm
FOR SALE
$870.00
Artwork Inspired by a Photograh I took of Mt Hutt…. just after a large dumping of snow!! what  a beautiful mountain !!
LAST SNOWFALLLAST SNOWFALL
Oil on Canvas
200mm x 900mm
 FOR SALE
$750.00
Artwork Inspired by a photograph I took whilst standing by some wetlands, and all I could see in the distance was one wee last amount of snow on the mountains!

760mm x 255mm x 40mm

Acrylic Mixed Media

For Sale

$690.00

Takamatua, a lovely Bay in the Banks Peninsula on the way to Akaroa…  There are lovely Wineries around this area… well worth a visit!  The vines and leaves inspired by grapevines and the vineyards around Banks Peninsula and hand sculptured using my signature 2d style with genuine 24c gold leaf rubbed over the leaves!

TEKAPO Tekapo

Acrylic on Canvas

300mm x 1200mm

FOR SALE
$980.00
Artwork Inspired by a road trip I took to down Central Otago, stopping at Lake Tekapo and Wanaka and  Queenstown!
I took hundreds of photos and this artwork is based on one of those photographs taken from inside the Church of the Good Shepherd Tekapo, hence the cross!
Harakeke Gold

Harakeke Gold

Acrylic Mixed Media

Diptych 200mm x 400mm  Total Size = 400mm x 400mm
FOR SALE
$450.00
Artwork -  Inspired by some photos I took of the wetlands in Canterbury and the harakekes that grow there.
Acrylic background with a  2d textured Harakeke Plant in the foreground( created using my unique signature 2d technique),  the colours in this artwork are very warm and subtle, dark greys, blues, gold,bronze and coppers.
All these artworks can be Viewed and Purchased at
Cafe’ Mint
Wairakei Road
Burnside

Loving playing around with Portraits …

Graphite  drawing on Hot Press Paper, the eyes I have coloured using Water Coloured Pencils

Graphite - Portrait

Acrylic on Hot Press Paper

In the Park - Acrylic on hot press paper

 

 

My quirky Mona Lisa …

I have had heaps of fun playing around with different quirky portraits so check out my latest …. My quirky Mona Lisa…

My quirky Mona Lisa ...

Portraits – Oil Sticks

I have been playing around with blending Oil Sticks and Oil Pastels trying to use as many colours as I can to create some Portraits…

Meet ” Naranja”

Naranja - Oil Sticks

Portraits – How I see … What I paint ….

Here I have posted portraits that I have based people or portraits that have been done before….

1) This portrait was inspired by my visit to the Louvre … I love anything to do with Egypt ! not sure why I am so fixated with Egypt but I love anything Egyptian ….

So this portrait I have created was inspired by a wax painting on wood ,Funerary portrait of a young woman known as “Portrait of the Faiyum”

I have painted this on Hot Press Paper using Golden Acrylic Paint.

Portrait of the Faiyum

Portraits – Pulled Art

Inspired by a tutortial by Mystele via www.willowingart.org

Portraits Pulled Art -  I have started with a blank canvas as you would say in this case a blank sheet of  watercolour paper .

Pulled art simply implies to what image you can pull from the background… I have written words, scribbled and made heaps of different shapes onto the paper, (using, pencils and pastels and acrylic paint) and then continued to do this with several layers until I am happy with what I see…  then I have Pulled a Portrait out of the shapes that have appeared through the top layer…  You can pull any picture out of this, but I am just working on creating all different types of portraits at this stage so I am looking for any type of facial features I can see, like a nose lips eyes etc… so here are a couple of my Not so Beautiful Beauties …..

Green with Envy

Going around in Circles

Portraits …Sketches

Inspired by Tam www.willowing.org

fascinate me… so I have started to spend some time looking at creating different types of faces with different mediums… this is my first Sketch of a Basic Face with Graphite ( which is simply a Pencil!) ….

Pencil sketch

Pencil Sketch

Create this Cool Marbling effect with Shaving Foam and Golden Air Brush Colours

Ok this is a great way to create a lovely Marbling effect!

Material List – Paper, Shaving Foam, Spatula Pallet knife, fork and skewer, Newspaper, heaps of handy towels, Golden Air Brush Colours. (Air Brush acrylics have a very thin viscosity and are very close to ink like!)

1) Start off with two pieces of Paper, the same size .

2) Spray some Shaving Foam onto the first piece of paper, and then spread it out with a pallet knife ( shaving foam needs to be approx 1cm in-depth) mmm its just like icing a cake lol

3) Drop some Golden Air Brush colours onto the shaving Foam, maybe to start with pick 4 or 5 colours, dropping about 5 drops per colour.

4) Once you have all your colours dropped onto your shaving foam, then use your (fork, spatula, pallet knife or skewer) whatever you have to move the paint around, swirl it, zig zag it, make patterns, words whatever you like.

5) Now that you have done this, place the other piece of paper down onto the painted shaving foam and press or Burnish really well, Yip this is messy, as some of the excess shaving foam will spill out the sides … but it is important that you do press and rub firmly, when you are done then peel back the top paper and place down in front of you!

6) Now using your paper towels, wipe off all the Shaving Foam from that paper, and you will be left looking at a very Cool Marble Paper !!

Wolaa !

Play around with using all different kinds of colour, and tools to make the designs.  Here is one that I have made and painted some cocoons and Butterflies on…

“Evolve – A Journey”

Zentangles – No.1 Forever Love

What is a Zentangle?

Zentangles are fun and relaxing, you can create them anywhere anytime!  Creating these Zentangles helps to increase your focus, and creativity and helps to promote personal well-being!

To find out more about these wonderful Inspirational artworks click here :)  check out www.zentangle.com

Zentangle No.1 Forever Love

Another Quick Art Tip for the Week- Painting with Contrast Colours …

Art Tip of the Week- Painting with Contrast Values

Value = the Lightness or Darkness of a colour.

To Brighten a colour paint its complementary colour beside it.

Complementary Colour – Combining a shade, tint or tone of one colour and the colour opposite on the colour wheel.

When two tones far apart from each other on the value scale are selected for example dark brown and cream,  and these tones are painted right beside each other, sharing a common edge, then that pair of tones are said to be in HIGH CONTRAST.

High- Contrast  pairs of colours appear to come forward, while Low-Contrast pairs of colours appear to recede

In this photo below …

1) I have mixed a blue background, and painted the korus with Van Dyke Brown and Titan Buff.

2) When paint is dry I have made up the background colour and mixed this with a glazing liquid and painted over the Korus that I wanted to appear to recede into the background.

Contrast colours with values …