Australia
Kookaburrahs
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Kookaburrahs, 11 x11 x 3 inches acrylics on canvas, gallery wrapped sides painted - finished today
March 13th, 2009 Blog post: Kookaburrahs, work in progress. This painting could have been left at phase 3, but the decision to give the birds more definition and sense of realism created a whole new set of problems. For example, the composition which was unbalanced from the start, is now exaggerated and more noticable, so a third element needs to be added in the upper left corner..not necessarily another object but color or shape that would shift the weight and attention away from the lower left areas.
The Great Ocean Road
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
The Great Ocean Road, weathered, dead tree, Eastern coastline, Victoria, Australia - 11 x 14 Oil pastels and pencil on paper.
This drawing has weathered a little time itself - it needed to go a little beyond the ordinary, so I put out of sight for a while and just gave it a few more finishing touches today. A few marks can make all the difference.
Exhibition Opportunity for Artists
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
For Artists interested in juried competitions and online gallery exhibitions, the American Juried Art Salon (AJAS) gives helpful feedback and critique whether your work is accepted or not. For information about their Spring/Summer 2008 competition visit http://www.artjury.com/art.html
Artists whose work has been accepted twice in a row receive a website page for one year.
Galahs in Traffic, 14 x 11 inches Oil Pastels on paper, 26 x 22 framed. Galahs fly in front of cars… unfortunate fatalities along the highway to the Kangaroo Island ferry, South Australia. The trees illustrated are Norfolk Island Pines. One of the pieces accepted into the AJAS Fall/Winter Online Gallery.
Eucalyptus Tree
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Eucalyptus Tree (Queen Mary’s Falls, Queensland, Australia) ~ 14 x 11 Oil Pastels on paper, Available, 26 x 22 inches total framed size. This is my favorite tree picture so far, along with Wild Canada in the same series.
Post-dated note: This drawing earned a spot in American Art Jury’s 2007 Spring/Summer online exhibition and gallery http://www.artjury.com
Eucalyptus Tree is part of the Paper Places series, accomplanied by and inspiring the following poem:
It remains
when things are gone
and people
passed and roads
and paths and places
we belong
to the Essence.
Galahs in Traffic, reworked
Friday, April 14th, 2006
Galahs in Traffic - Flocks of Galahs fly head on into cars on the road to Kangaroo Island, South Australia. 14 x 11 Oil Pastels ~ Available
All drawings in the series Paper Places are framed with 3″ white mat, 3″ wide white wood classic style frame 26 x 22 inches. Post-dated note: Galahs in Traffic placed in Artjury.com’s 2007 Fall/Winter Juried Online Exhibition.
Galahs in Traffic, version 1
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Galahs in Traffic - Version 1 - This drawing started out to be a portrait of the Norfolk Island Pines growing in this coastal area of South Australia. Many of the pieces in the Paper Places series have a first stage at the end of a day or two worth of work where it could be called finished, then further scrutiny says that it needs to be changed.
1) This is an area unlike any other, where flocks of Galahs flew directly into the traffic on the main highway leading to the Kangaroo Island ferry. Dead Galahs lay along the side of the road for miles. After two days of work and remembering the horrifying feelings of that scene, it was undeniably clear that the drawing as it is in the stage above, even though it could be called finished, is stagnant, ordinary, and so very unsuitable for the subject and what takes place there every day.
Flowering Eucalypt
Monday, December 12th, 2005
Flowering Eucalypt, Australia - 16 x 20 Acrylics, framed , available
Koala - 2004
Saturday, October 23rd, 2004
Koala and Eucalyptus - 16 x 20 inches Acrylics on wrapped canvas. Below: work progression.
