Tag Archives: NZ Artist

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

Masked…

Just finished this Acrylic on Paper …. I am so loving painting fun portraits so have combined my new-found love of portraits and my old love of Butterflies …

 Butterflies from Top to Bottom are as follows… Small Thyridia, Blue Admiral, Monarch, Blue Pansy, Eurasian Comma and the last one a Brown-Veined White butterfly :)

“Masked”

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 …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

Strung Along – Abstract mixed media on Paper

“Strung Along” Mixed Media on Paper

300mm x 420mm

This Artwork was created on Acid Free Paper.  This artwork will need to be framed.

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 …