Old into new ... finished except for varnish

Acrylic portrait on crinkled tissue paper on canvas. Image source - my own photograph shown below.

Old into New - Take 6. And still refining!!

Old into new - Take 5, refining and defining!

Old into new --- Take 3, Roughly Sketched In

Sold at the Fayre!

This week the biennial exhibition of the East Otago Art and Crafts group in being held at East Otago Events Centre, Waikouaiti, and yesterday a couple took a liking to "Song from the South" and bought it! How lovely it is to have someone like your work enough to part with their hard-earned cash!! 

"Song from the South" (pastel)

Rejection, dejection!

Oh dear! Just heard today that ALL THREE of my entries to this year's Spring Exhibition at the Anderson Park Gallery, Invercargill have been rejected.

Although the official wording says "not accepted" I know what it means all right.... and it means Rejected as far as I am concerned. 

No matter how you look at it having ones paintings thrown out en masse is rather a blow. Especially for a rather prestigious exhibition. Knowing that such things depend upon the personal preferences of the judges/selectors, and that non-acceptance is not necessarily an indication that ones work is no good, is not much comfort when the fact remains that, for whatever reason, ones work did not appeal.

It makes me feel childishly peeved actually!!! (Sad to admit, but true!)

Oh well .... onwards and upwards. And what idiot was it who said that, I wonder?

SPEED on a Sunday Afternoon!

Today, having finished some "office stuff " on the computer, I settled down to some serious Sunday afternoon escapism ..... videos of other artists at work!! As people and faces are my most favourite things to paint I was drawn to tasting the delights of some very SPEEDY painters at work ....



Agnes Cecile - painting 'One in a thousand'

Voka - painting 'Marilyn Monroe'

Takeshi Sato - painting 'Live Paint Act - Dancer'

Just loved watching them!! Hope you will too.

Freddie - a kind of magic!

Otago Art Society is calling for entries into a Members Exhibition with the subject 'portraits'. Entries must be in by 4th June. I thought it might be fun to do a portrait of someone famous and settled on Freddie Mercury, one of my all-time favourites! I didn't leave myself much time so its on quite a small canvas .... but I think its just about finished except for a few tiny touches and some varnish.

'Freddie - a kind of magic'

Acrylic on canvas (12" x 12")

April ..... almost cooked!

All done except for a few tiny tweaks!

Song from the South (soft pastel)

April .... making progress

'Small Pleasures', soft pastel paintings 1 & 2

Figures

'Persuasion' (Pastel) SOLD

'Chasing Waves' (Pastel) SOLD

'Sunshine girls No.3' Pastel SOLD

'Sea Breeze' Pastel SOLD

'Beachcombers II ' (Pastel) SOLD

'Beachcombers I ' (Acrylic on canvas) SOLD

'Beachcombers I' won the Lula Currie Award 2004 (voted best painting by artist members), 12th Annual Exhibition, Otago Art Society, Dunedin.

'Splash' (Acrylic on canvas) SOLD

'Barefoot on the beach' (Pastel) SOLD

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