People Watching

6 x 6 Acrylic on board.
I spotted these two enjoying the sun and the locals going past and thought it would make a nice picture. I think it works.
I am experimenting with framing at the present and trying to find the right moulding to suit these small paintings.  I have decided that a plain wide black moulding suits best.  I'll post some samples when I have them ready.

Oil and veges

Acrylic on board 6 x 6 in.  

I am trying to paint these in under an hour, but don't think I have managed to do it yet. There is an interesting dynamic that happens when I am able to paint fast and with a simple abandon. It is still necessary to pay attention to the little details, without getting fussy and slowing the painting process.

Small daily paintings

The Road Home (acrylic) 6 X 6
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I have started doing these small paintings as a way of loosening up and doing some painting on a regular basis.  They are for sale, so please contact me if you are interested in anything you see here. I will be posting them on a regular basis, hopefully.

Aotea Island

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This montage acrylic painting is 90x30cm. The right hand side shows the view from the top of the ridge adjacent the bay where we live on this beautiful island. The scene is broken and inter-dispersed with other iconic images of this magical place.  The writing is a poem I wrote specifically for the painting, it reads.

Aotea, island of islands, of secluded little bays and hidden secret places,
Pristine long sandy shores and wetlands that team with life.
Her mountains clothed in cloud, and gullies very deep, all tattooed with shady paths
and mossy stone filled streams.
Cliffs of timeless granite seem to hold you in place, aloft here on the ocean 
away from the cities frantic pace.

Fern Study

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Now, back to some Acrylic's.  This was painted last year in the Inspire Painting School that a friend of mine and I run here on Great Barrier Island each year.  It is just a typical clump of ferns hanging from a bank, that anyone would walk past every day.  It made a nice painting and sold pretty quick.

Behold the Bridegroom Comes

This image was created for a conference brochure back in 2002.

some older work

These were done back in the late '90's  when my wife Lynne, and I had our gallery.

Hope

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I like the way the light and shade played over this monument.  It was fun to paint as well. I placed the background in later and decided on a sky with dark clouds on one side, which helped also to punch out the white of the wing.  It seemed right to place a bird in flight, suggesting freedom, and making a contrast with the idea of a grave monument.  I called it 'Hope' because there always is, if we have the faith to believe it.

Matapouri Bay

This is one of my all time favourite paintings. Its small 10 x 8 in.  It was painted really fast, in about 45 minutes, which is why, I think, it is so fresh and free.

The White Jug

Acrylic on canvas panel. 16 x 20 in.

I belong to an on-line artist community called 'The Compete Artist'.  Richard Robinson administers and owns the site, he is also an amazing painter. Richard puts up a monthly painting challenge, this was one of the subjects. I am pretty pleased with the result.
I also did a version in watercolour.

Watercolour on paper (obviously)