superimposed

I had my mind made up about painting a good honest abstract - but first I had to do the 'stract' without the 'ab'. A while ago we travelled through to Taupo from Auckland, through beautiful bountiful green land, hills and valleys, rich growth and the odd herd of cows or sheep. This resulted in this painting that I call 'lambscape' - 350 x 450 x 35mm in acrylic.

Then on a loose piece of canvas I worked on abstracting my lambscape and after a number of stages the painting ended up looking like this:


Next I went ahead and ripped the canvas to pieces, yes I did, remarkably easy too - canvas is a joy to rip - and placed the pieces on the original representational painting. Note that I had to have it on the horizontal, like the land, to be able to do this. Now we literally have realism supporting the abstracting of the lambscape.


Now for me to be able to hang this on the wall, the strips will have to be collaged down, so I started playing with placement, and this is it. The end...e^)

the joke

380 x 760 x 35mm - oils and acrylics on stretched canvas. Experimenting with combinations of acrylics and oils, working into them and combining them to see what will happen.. Jokes are like that too - people react differently to them, so you can never tell what the reaction will be, fascinating to watch the faces! And very telling the things that make different people laugh... This is available here on auction for a week, thanks for looking ..e^)

peace poppy

One of a number of new paintings available through Hot Ginger Gallery - this one is 760 x 380 x 35mm, acrylics on stretched canvas ..e^)

makeover...

My sweet penguin has had a makeover - and he's available for auction on trade me for a week. I think I'm into happy, bright colours at the moment - sooooo if you stand still long enough, I'll paint you too. Where's the cat... e^)

stubborn penguin

Acrylics on stretched canvas 760 x 380 x 35mm - had fun experimenting with a different technique here. Looks like the penguin is not too pleased though LOL ..e^)