acrylic

Shoot it, Sketch it: Purple

| Anna Cull
Purple coneflowers, digitally edited photographs – Christchurch, 2003
Purple coneflowers, digitally edited photographs – Christchurch, 2003

I have no idea where my original photographs are but these are the arty versions (created quite a few years ago using Corel Photo-Paint) that inspired the diptych below. How I wish our garden still looked this good!

Purple coneflower diptych – acrylic on textured card, 205 x 305 mm each, 2014
Purple coneflower diptych – acrylic on textured card, 205 x 305 mm each, 2014

A loose, sketchy style seemed the thing for these two studies. I also used less intense, more natural colours and resisted the urge to define all the edges. In some ways they feel a little unfinished, like a work still in progress, and yet I can’t bring myself to add any more paint.

Shoot it, Sketch it: Dunedin

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Dunedin – acrylic on canvas, 305 x 305 mm, 2013
Dunedin – acrylic on canvas, 305 x 305 mm, 2013. Sold.

This little painting has taken me on quite a journey with lots of colours, lots of layers and lots of lessons learnt along the way ― and now it is finally (finally!) finished. To see it in more detail, I’ve included a little slideshow (below).

The photo montage that inspired this painting was posted here last week and a WIP update was posted here.

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This isn’t it

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Work in progress #2 – adding colour, adjusting the composition
Work in progress #2 – adding colour, adjusting the composition
Work in progress # 3, detail – more colour, more texture (and quite a lot of paint)
Work in progress # 3, detail – more colour, more texture (and quite a lot of paint)

I had such a clear idea of what I wanted to see on my canvas ― and this isn’t it. But at least the end is now in sight… Click here to see WIP #1.

Shoot it, Sketch it: First impressions

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Dunedin, photo montage, 2013
Dunedin, photo montage, 2013
Work in progress # 1 – underpainting
Work in progress # 1 – underpainting

I was so impressed with Dunedin’s gorgeous architecture when we were there on holiday last month that I went mad taking photographs ― but then I couldn’t decide which one to paint first… So I arranged a few favourites based on a nine-square grid (editing it in Photoshop and adding a few extra cabbage trees here and there). And now I’m painting it. This may take a while.