Friday, June 29, 2007

Sunny Side Out


View out of the window from my breakfast table. Fun doing this pastel and feel particularly happy with the light showing through the cloth on the table. Begin to feel more at ease with this medium.
"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
William Shakespeare

“Sunlight is painting.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Developing a theme


Working with "Comfort Zone" has become rather like working with an old friend. I begin to know this chair so well that I can imagine the feel of its curves as I work. Developing the colour studies - not quite there with the chair yet but feel much happier with the background colours now.

The grisaille is an ongoing work ........ everyday another step forward. One blessing to living here is that the oil paint I put on one day is dry by the next! I knew there had to be an upside to living in the desert!
“Shades of grey wherever I go,
The more I find out the less that I know
Black and white is how it should be
But shades of grey are the colors I see.”
Billy Joel

Friday, June 22, 2007

The Harem - pastel


I'm beginning to enjoy the pastels. Having to fight the temptation to use the same colours in every orange - have to think of each one as a separate object and not that they are all identical.
“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”
Vincent van Gogh

"Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne. The champagne definitely improves the orange."
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Pastel "Comfort Zone"


Trying to pinpoint the colours in the walls - not sure that these are right yet but an exercise in pastels none the less.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Comfort Zone - Oils



Started the grisaille of Comfort Zone this week. This is the first pass.

Painting is a refound pleasure!

Friday, June 08, 2007

Brief glimpse of colour



Interesting lesson learned doing this on how colour moves objects within the visual plane.

Friday, June 01, 2007

Refreshed and Invigorated

Its been too long - but I am freshly returned from rainy Spain and ready to pick up my brushes.

A couple of photos from the trip - I have a passion for doors and windows and this pair from the Bullring in Ronda particularly attracted my attention. Super blue shadows!

The flowers were just from playing with learning how to use my complex camera on manual settings rather than entirely from the automatic ones. Of all the pictures I took of flowers I like this one the most.
“Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent”
William Shakespeare
all artwork is copyright of Anita Murphy 2006/2007/2008/2009