Alpine Flowers

This is a semi impressionistic painting of Alpine Flowers (Gentiana), and I have taken some liberties with the base stems, and finally given them a impressionistic twist. I hope you like the final outcome!

Lady's Slipper Arch: one of my early artworks

This is one of my very early artworks.  The arch exists, I painted in the wall to make the painting work!

Guyra Gum Tree No 2

I am not sure about this painting, as I tried to make the old trunk of the gum tree a center feature of this painting.  Good paintings do not usually have the main feature smack in the middle of the painting, but I thought I would try something different with this one... any comments would be gladly taken on board!

Ginger Cat: artwork looking a little mean.

My first try at a portrait of an animal.  This is my Ginger Cat, looking little mean.

Fuchsia in the Wind: A Windblown Painting

This painting is a little different, as I have tried to give it a semi impressionistic windblown look.

This is the first of about six 'flower' paintings I completed a couple of months ago. 

More flower power painting to come!

Painting with Lights 2010: A different kind of artwork

I have not put paint to canvas for the last week or so.  I have been putting up and fussing with my Christmas Lights for 2010.  I consider putting up lights and the way you assemble them to be Painting with Lights!

Here is one of the first video clips I took of our current Christmas Lights setup, I will post one later on when I finally complete the installation of all the Christmas Lights.  This year has been very wet in Australia, so our Christmas Lights have been delays over the last few days on account of rain, rain and more rain!

My original Blog of Painting with Lights contains a small video clip of Lights that I had put in in 2006. 

My Blog - Painting with Lights Part 2 contains a video clip of our Christmas Lights 2009.

I will be back to putting paint on canvas, instead of lights on the roof from today! (Dec 5, which is BTW my birthday).

Wisconsin Lake Sunset: artwork with comments.

These comments were sent to me by my friend the Rev Rick Anderson on November 16, 2010 after I sent him a print of the painting.  His comments on my artwork mean a lot to me!

Notes on Wisconsin Lake Sunset, by Rev Rick Anderson, 16 Nov 2010.

Re:  Your painting of the sun reflected over the water.  I think what caught my eye first off and then later, when I studied the painting is the way that the sun’s rays seem to “skip” across the tip of the ripples in the water – and then approach “the observer” as if to invite “the observer”  (me – in this case), to actually enter the “experience” of the contrasting blues and other colours of the scene as a whole.

 (Sorry about such a long sentence, but I wanted to write exactly the impression I get from the details of the painting as they invite me into the overall or total picture – very effective).

Also, despite the predominance of light blue there is evidence of the “intrusion” of darkness in the trees and the darker areas of the blue in the sky and on the horizon that tells me that the sun’s beauty is to be truly appreciated in the few minutes before the compete scene is permanently changed by the immanent movement of the sun.  You have permanently captured the brief moment in time that is soon to be completely change by the passage of time.