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WATERCOLOUR AS A PROCESS

27/2/2013

'Wanganui River View', 1998. Watercolour.
I have had times were I have been very fond of watercolour, mainly as a way of sorting out colour before starting a piece in oil. I have also produced many watercolours for the fun of it, the process being more relaxing and less taxing than oil painting. I have many old sketchbooks full of pictures like this but I haven't really indulged of late.

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IMPROMPTU MONET

12/6/2011

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'Portrait of Monet', Acrylic Paint on Paper, 2002.

Found this from a few years ago, an impromptu exercise in not using naturalistic colours with a student.

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EXHIBITION OPENING - TRAVELS

11/4/2011

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'Rapahoe', Crayon on Paper, 2001, and exhibition invitation for the 'Travels' show, 2002.
Another image from a sketchbook of West Coast drawings which became the painting on the invitation for my only solo show to date.

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SOUTH ISLAND ROAD TRIP SKETCHES

3/4/2011

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'West Coast Rocks', Crayon on Paper, 2001.
An image from an old sketchbook and a road trip around the South Island nearly ten years ago.

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WHAT I GOT UP TO AS A KID

27/2/2011

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'F-14 Tomcat', Pencil and Pen on Paper, 1987.
I found this in an old book of stories today. Fuelled by repeated viewings of 'Top Gun', I would write and illustrate my own war stories to entertain my eleven year old self.

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MACCHU PICCHU REWORK

18/12/2009

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'Macchu Picchu, Peru #2', 2009.
Second attempt at this piece, simplified and a little more stylised than the first one.

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EARLY LOOSE STYLE

6/12/2009

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'Kaitoke Road Stop, Wanganui'. 1999.
An example of the looser style of painting from the Wanganui years, pieces like this would take me half an hour as opposed to the eight to ten they do now.

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SORTING COLOUR WITH WATERCOLOURS

3/12/2009

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'From Augustus Gardens, Capri, Italy', Watercolour, 2005.
I used to make a watercolour before each piece to sort out colour and had periods where they became nice little paintings in their own right. This was one of a series of small pieces for a show at Idiom a few years ago.

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Artistic process

3/10/2009

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'Macchu Picchu, Peru', 2009.
A few pictures today to help illustrate the process I go through with each piece. At the top are the sketches done on site, below that are secondary sketches (though this is the first time I've done it on the board) to work out how to make it into a painting, and then the actual piece itself.
I am not very happy with this piece but will do another version of it when I finish the South American series. In the past I have done up to four or five versions of a piece, trying to get it right!

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POST-IT NOTE SKETCHING

4/7/2009

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'Montagne Sainte Victoire, France', 2008.
Whilst in the south of France for a christening I was asked what I wanted to do with a spare afternoon and I jumped at the chance to see Cezanne's mountain for myself. We had walked up the south face for a bit but on the way back we pulled over and I hastily sketched this view on a 'Post-it' note I found in the car. This photo is a little dark but you get an idea of the colour.

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WATERCOLOUR AS A PROCESS

IMPROMPTU MONET

EXHIBITION OPENING - TRAVELS

SOUTH ISLAND ROAD TRIP SKETCHES

WHAT I GOT UP TO AS A KID

MACCHU PICCHU REWORK

EARLY LOOSE STYLE

SORTING COLOUR WITH WATERCOLOURS

Artistic process

POST-IT NOTE SKETCHING

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