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Everything is important

| Anna Cull
Anna Cull Sidetracked 2014
Bluescape – acrylic on canvas, 102 x 102 mm, 2014. Sold.

“The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint… I’d like to pretend that I’ve never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything… and then make something… Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it… Nothing is important… so everything is important.” Keith Haring

This mini abstract is now for sale has now sold. At 4 x 4 inches, it’s the smallest canvas I’ve ever painted!

Shoot it, Sketch it: Encore

| Anna Cull
Snowflakes, July 2014 — ink, watercolour and gouache study, 130 x 180 mm
Snowflakes, July 2014 — ink, watercolour and gouache study, 130 x 180 mm
Snowflakes (detail)
Snowflakes (detail)

The snowflakes are back. This is my second study of a photograph I took in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens last spring. It’s looser and more dramatic than the original sketch (below). I really went to town adding watercolour pencil over the top of an ink and watercolour sketch. Using the pencils wet (by dipping them in water) and then drawing on the wet sketch not only produced some wonderfully intense colours, it also added a rather nice texture. It’s a technique that definitely warrants further investigation… My thanks again to everyone who voted in the poll and asked me to draw this one again.

Original photograph and sketch #1
Original photograph and sketch #1

Shoot it, Sketch it: Blue moon

| Anna Cull
Blue moon – acrylic on canvas, 230 x 305 mm, 2014
Blue Moon – acrylic on canvas, 230 x 305 mm, 2014, SOLD
Full moon, original photograh (left) and digitally edited version (right) – Christchurch, 2004
Full moon, original photograh (left) and digitally edited version (right) – Christchurch, 2004

The inspiration for this painting was an arty version of a photograph I edited many moons ago in Corel Photo-Paint. It’s not for sale yet because it’s not varnished. It was too blimmin’ cold to do any varnishing last week… so I hope to varnish it — AND another one I’ve just finished that I can’t wait to show you — in the next couple of days.

My thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s ‘what would you like me to draw again’ poll. The results are in and I’m happy to announce that ‘Snowflakes’ will be my next ink and watercolour project. I’ll let you know how I get on.