on my workbench / easel

commission work - earlier stages

at the moment

Just a few little follow ups on my works in progress.

 

Abstract in oil still in progress

After a second week full of holiday art classes for the kids, I also managed to work a little on my projects and today I even went for a nice walk with my family. My little man (my son) and I walked up to the summit, my big man walked around the Mount with my daughter. Great way to spend the last day of their holidays.

winter in the Bay of Plenty :)

 

Sanguine

"Sanguine" - mixed media on canvas 60 x 90 cm

sanguine [ˈsæŋgwɪn]

adj

1. cheerful and confident; optimistic

2. (esp of the complexion) ruddy in appearance

3. (Cookery) blood-red

4. an obsolete word for sanguinary [2]

 

 Summertime.....this painting gives me that feeling, a sort of a Mother Earth again, this time inspired by the beautiful Pohutukawa trees that grow and flower abundantly around this place where we live. They line the bays and the beaches and gaze peacefully over the ocean