Art, illustration, textiles, travels
These types of works are my chance to move away from reality and adapt and more illustrative style. Most often these will be watercolour, without a doubt my favourite medium, with other mediums used to finish the work in (i. e. coloured pencil, gouache, pastel). The paintings here are more recent and incorporate products or techniques that I am totally obsessed with. To name just a few: Daniel Smith Primatek watercolours, Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils, granulation and texture.
I really love blue and indigo. This piece is a mixture of calm sky in the distance with a moody, dark foreground. The storm cloud and tree detail are a mixture of white gouache and coloured pencil. I was aiming for a children's illustration look with this one.
This is another watercolour experimenting with the quality of light and mood. The question is my mind with this piece is 'what is through the trees'... or do we want to know!
This is a small painting of mine from. Just after Daniel Smith watercolours finally arrived in New Zealand. This was done as a quick illustration to play around with the primatek jadeite genuine pigment. I was working from foreground to background and used Polychromos pencils for some detail over top. This paint granulates beautifully and creates real texture.
The background of this piece is piemontite genuine and bronzite genuine watercolour pigment. I finished this with the tree and some additional texture done in Polychromos pencil.
