So we’re in lockdown, with all the time in the world to make art. YAY. !!!
Getting a bit of free space in my art room now that I have had a good shuffle of the materials on the bench. Trying out some new techniques, and some old ones which are still unique to my process. This is smallish, on heavy paper which is a common way of working at the moment. Gesso, paint, rubbing back, stencil etc. I like the way the underpainting shows through in patches, and I am loving the orange – a GO FAST colour for the best of times.
I’m not expecting to do one of these every day of the lockdown, but today was cruisey and peaceful.
A new take on an oldie – getting over the pain of covering something that has been with me for a while. Actually it’s quite cathartic to do this. Back when I was working in watercolour a long time ago, when the time came to tear those up and collage them into other works, it felt good, useful and fresh. Gives them another life. This is work on board 900 mm x 600 mm and now has several layers of acrylic, paper and irridescent medium scraped and smoothed over the surface.
It was a bleak Friday when our Plein Air group visited the local historic train station at Waikino, Southern Coromandel. A few chose to sit on the wind-blown station platform while others huddled inside by the fire. The building is not the original one, but was trucked in from up the line at Paeroa years ago. A tourist train now operates from Waihi town to this station. This is a painting of the bullion store located beside the fireplace.