Jan 282010
Landscape oil painting study - Kiewa Valley Victoria

Hi All,
A quick post this evening.. Here is a oil painting study of a stand of trees in the Kiewa Valley of Victoria’s Alpine region.
Enjoy.
 

20 x 10″ oil on panel

Jan 212010
Science Fiction Oil Painting - Sky Burial #1

Howdy Sci FI fans!
This one is for you! I said in an earlier post that I would start painting more genre work, specifically, sf paintings. Well here is the second such painting Desert Storm being the first even though it isn’t apparent. In context with this new painting, it starts to fit.
This is the second [...]

Sep 042009
Studio Lighting for oil painting..

Hi all!
I’ve been asked about the lighting set up in my painting studio, so I thought I would post some pics and a brief description.

My studio is quite small as I’m using the second bedroom in my 2 bedroom apt as my painting studio, the first being used as my digital studio (I sleep in [...]

Aug 272009
Oil painting - Crookhaven Boulders

Howdy all..
Another oil painting update.. This is the finished painting of the boulders at Crookhaven River near Culburra NSW.
36″ x 15″ Oil on Linen.

Here are some close up details..

Aug 252009
Desert Storm oil painting update..

Quick update again.. Here is a slightly revised Desert Storm painting.. the ‘dune’ on the left was bothering me..

May 272009
Desert Storm - Genre oil painting..

Howdy art lovers,
I’m posting this painting tonight because it is almost where I want it, almost finished… but I don’t really like it… why you ask? Well I started this painting in January 2005. These two ‘Women’ have watched me these last few years from above my book shelf waiting for me to finish it. [...]

May 252009
New oil paintings at last..

Howdy all,
Long time no blog.. sorry about that! I’ve been busy with a ton of things, painting of course, re-designing my website etc etc.. where does the time go?
So here are two new paintings (still works in progress) based on a plein air and lighting study. You may recognise these from earlier posts, except these [...]

Apr 032009
New Landscape study..

Howdy Folks.. here is another landscape study of the Kiewa Valley in Victoria. The lighting is a bit flatter than I usually like, but it had a hazy quality which I liked. Dont think I captured it here though. Anyway we keep going… “We have to go on… We must go on..”  10 points to [...]

Apr 022009
Snow Gum part 2

Hi All,
I think this one is done.. famous last words of course!!
It’s 30 x 30″, oil on linen btw.

Mar 242009
More Plein Air painting..

Two more paintings…
16 x 8″, oil on panel.