Blogs about: Matisse Derivan
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Riverbank
I did this drawing at work one Friday lunchtime – very fast. We only get half an hour for lunch and I’d already taken time to eat. I started very fast with a huge propelling pencil –… more →
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Riverbank
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quirkyartist wrote 2 weeks ago: I did this drawing at work one Friday lunchtime – very fast. We only get half an hour for lunc … more →
Lemons
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quirkyartist wrote 2 weeks ago: I started this one late Friday night after a day at work, but I got an international phone call whic … more →
Cubist painting with Matisse Dry Mediums
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quirkyartist wrote 5 months ago: I started this painting some time ago. We decided to make a project sheet for doing a cubist paintin … more →
Demonstrating on 2nd July - new Dry Mediums
quirkyartist wrote 6 months ago: Hi everyone, On 2nd July (which is not far away at all) I will be demonstrating a semi-abstract land … more →
Paste papers in the rain
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quirkyartist wrote 6 months ago: This is what we did on Sunday. I had an arrangement made a very long time ago to teach some friends … more →
Dry Mediums - cubist step by step
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quirkyartist wrote 7 months ago: This is step two of my cubist painting. I’ve collaged ‘La Fiamma’ which is Sydney … more →
Fiamma - sketches for new cubist painting
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quirkyartist wrote 7 months ago: Now I’ve regressed and done a bad drawing on bad (cartridge) paper. I did a few little sketche … more →
Pyrmont Art Prize
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quirkyartist wrote 8 months ago: The first Saturday in May is the Pyrmont Art Prize. They have a one-day exhibition of all the paint … more →
New Dry Medium painting at the Easter Show
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quirkyartist wrote 8 months ago: On Sunday I was demonstrating on the Matisse Derivan stand at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I painte … more →
Solar plate etching
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quirkyartist wrote 9 months ago: A couple of weeks ago I went to David Wilsher’s exhibition on an old ferry at Blackwattle Bay. … more →
Latest urban landscape
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quirkyartist wrote 9 months ago: This urban landscape is on the other side of King Street from my previous ones, and down the back l … more →
More handmade boxes
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quirkyartist wrote 10 months ago: Last year I was lucky enough to have the chance to learn to make a box with Glen Skien. You can see … more →
Another Urban Landscape (or two)
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quirkyartist wrote 10 months ago: This urban landscape is also done with the Matisse Dry Mediums, so lots of texture. The dry mediums … more →
Coming soon - Matisse Dry Mediums
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quirkyartist wrote 1 year ago: Hi everyone, I’ve been so slack with the blog recently, but I’ve been doing a very time- … more →
Painting flowers in inks
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quirkyartist wrote 1 year ago: These are all students’ paintings, not my own. I haven’t finished my own yet, nor photog … more →
20th Worldwide Sketch Crawl
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quirkyartist wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I went on my first world-wide sketchcrawl. It’s when people meet up all over the wo … more →
Starting off a book swap
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quirkyartist wrote 1 year ago: We’re starting off a book swap with one member from the previous postcard swap group, and some … more →
It's a conspiracy !
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quirkyartist wrote 1 year ago: The planets seem to be aligned in a consiracy to stop me making art. Waaaah! I’m getting stres … more →
I had to tell you about this book.....
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quirkyartist wrote 1 year ago: You know I’ve been rattling on for some time about the book Fast Sketching Techniques. Well, a … more →
