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blocking in

Only one day painting this weekend, it is looking somewhat rough, but I'm thinking this is just the blocking in stage,  I will refine and adjust values further on. After this the plan is to get another landscape finished by 19th October. There is a Tennyson Street Fair which is put on by Elim Church that I attend and I would like to have five paintings to show. (did I mention I sold a painting in the New Zealand Art show here in Wellington).

a doorway, Te Aro, Wellington

I have made a start on a new painting, this is the source photo. It probably features somewhere in this blog, possibly in 2007 when I first began photographing around Wellington. Have been listening to St Germain ‘Tourist’ while working on it, it was probably played around this time in the cafes that are nearby where this photo was taken.

acrylic on 8oz cotton, 750mm x 750mm

Done!  ..... I think ..

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I can see the finish line …..

I spent yesterday and half of today on this hill, and this is as far as I could manage, the right hillside will have to wait till Monday, as I am rostered to drive a taxi tomorrow (Sunday). I have some questions here to resolve, maybe I will try a milky blue glaze over the hills and the water with reflections to hopefully tie it all in. It is all a learning process, I should be okay to post again late Monday or maybe tuesday and then I can think about something else.

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my job for next weekend is to paint some green hills 

last weekend I was thinking this painting might fail, now I'm feeling okay, even though the colour is a little on the imaginative side. So far I have only used Permanent Violet Dark , Paynes Gray, C.P. Cadmium yellow Medium, Titanium White and Ultramarine Blue in the Golden Artist range.

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It has been a long time since I have had stuff for public view

One week ago I bubble wrapped these paintings and took them down to the New Zealand Art show here in Wellington TSB centre.  If they sell, I will be hopeful of driving a taxi a little less and painting a little more.

Art show information:

New Zealand Art Show

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weekly progress report….

I have moved upward and now the rocks are all there, just some refining and corrections to do. I’m hoping the rest will come together rather quickly.

I have reached the other side of the canvas

I am doing something that I don't know how to do, so progress has been slow.

On the plus side, the last three paintings have been accepted for 'The New Zealand Art Fair".

 rock pool painting progress so far ….

This has been slow going, everything seems to go a bit wobbly at first, then corrections and adjustments until it begins to resemble rocks. Reasonably close to the composition of the photograph, but I can’t paint every rock and pebble, so it all becomes a bit of a compromise between how it was and my imagination seems to fill in the gaps.

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a scene with rock pools

a photograph of some rock pools I took off The Esplanade, near Owhiro Bay, Wellington. I seem to choose a subject for painting that I actually don’t know how to go about. Hopefully I am raising the bar each time.