Illustrative/ experimental landscapes

Tempest 21x29.7cm

Tempest 21x29.7cm

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.

Edge of the meadow 21x29.7cm

Edge of the meadow 21x29.7cm

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!

Jade Mountains 28x18cm

Jade Mountains 28x18cm

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.

Canyon 21x29.7cm

Canyon 21x29.7cm

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.