Agave - canvas block set

I've added another painting to my "Blue" Agave canvas block set - top left.
As well as 'touching up' the other three.
All are now ready for selling... Will let you know how it's gone.

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Red Eyed Tree Frog - Experiment 4a - Acrylic on streched canvas 100x80cm

A new camera and a few more brush strokes equals this result of my painting. "Red Eyed Tree Frog ".
I'm beginning to wonder if this will ever get finished. I've set my goal to complete it by the first week of August and have it up on TradeMe or E-bay within days after that.
Now I'll get to see just what people really think about paying for and putting a large bright painting on their wall...
All I really have left to do is tidy up the "black" areas and give a bit more attention to the mouth and leaves.



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Guest Painting: - Blue Protea - painted by Valerie

Blue Protea - 46x35cm - Acrylic on board. This was painted by Val, and inspired by a photo from RAYSCAM.
Unfortunately the camera did not pick up the luminosity and intense blue of the actual painting...

Red Eyed Tree Frog - Experiment 4 - Acrylic on streched canvas 100x80cm

Red Eye Tree Frog - Having painted the eyes and given definition to the foliage, this semi final update is the result. I painted the body of the frog and face using a stipple effect. Then I used long flowing brush strokes to give a smoother texture to the leaves. All that remains to do now is to paint in the white highlights and solidify the background 'black' shapes. I'm still in two minds about the 'Bishop's cap' sticking out of the head. This may or may not be removed by the time the final pic is presented.

Our precious digital camera got dropped by me so until it is replaced I have to revert to using my cell phone to take pics - hence the lack of detail in this photo...


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Red Eyed Tree Frog - Experiment 3 - Acrylic on streched canvas 100x80cm

Red Eye Tree Frog - painting in the eyes was my next task, and since I was painting in shades of red - and in the mood to continue, I started to put a little more definition on the leaves. I chose red over green because I'm not that good at mixing greens in acrylic yet, and because the underbelly of the frog had to be a reflection of the foliage. This is artistic licence since the real frog has a white underbelly... Standing back and looking at the picture - I'm not too sure about the leaf sticking out of its head like a Bishops cap... Anyone want to add a suggestion?


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Red Eyed Tree Frog - Acrylic on streched canvas 100x80cm

Red Eye Tree Frog - today I painted the background yellow, and all the "black" areas with Phthalo Blue.
The areas which show shading have been 'dry-brushed' with grey.
I painted the final highlight bits in white already to keep the spaces as a reference point for when I finish the painting.

tomorrow I will be painting the eyes as they will be the focal point...



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Red Eyed Tree Frog - Acrylic on stretched canvas 100 by 80cm

Red Eye Tree Frog - This is my latest venture in Acrylic painting. I
t is a streched canvas, 1metre by 80cm, of a red-eyed-tree-frog.

The original was from a photo taken at Sun City in South Africa and scanned onto an overhead, then 'beamed' onto my canvas whilst I 'traced' around the image.

I will be posting pics of my painting progress here in various stages until the finished work is accomplished.



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Acrylic - Pansies on Grey - 20cm x 13.5cm

I decided to move on from the Agave boost and these are my results...
They are on canvas board.

Pansies - 20cm x 13.5cm


I like the vivid colours: brilliant magenta, brilliant violet, ultramarine blue, lemon yellow, payne's grey, blue lake, phthalo blue and heaps of white...

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Blue Iris - acrylic

Iris - 20cm x 16cm
I've got a long way top go to figure out how to paint glass in acrylic...


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Tulips - acrylic

Tulips - 20cm x 19.5cm


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Canvas Panel - African design, 30.5x60.5cm each

Two panels done in Acrylic - "inspired" from a sheet of fabric...


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Trying out with Acrylic

Starting with 6 and 8 inch canvas blocks I thought I'd give painting in acrylic a go and was inspired by the Agave plants for their structural form.
Can't go wrong with simple lines I thought - so these are the results in different colour combinations.















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yatch - watercolour

Mucking around with colour and painting the sky at a vertical angle.
This is not an original picture, but copied from an art flyer...



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watercolour painting of my Art Tools

This weeks theme was a still life of some of my art tools.

Drawing skills are a little off - the pot looks lopsided but the painting still took me half an hour to complete.




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