My ‘Precious Stones’ Exhibit at Britannia Art Gallery
Precious Stones A Japanese saying goes, ‘The pebble in the brook secretly believes itself to be a precious stone’. These paintings are portraits of pebbles, stones and rocks, all of […]
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Rhodonite, a Pink Semi-Precious Stone
Rhodonite, with its distinctive rose pink colour, is often veined in olive green or black. Pink rhodonite, leopard jasper, rutilated quartz, ebony & brass necklace.Detail of heavily veined rhodonite, brass, ebony […]
Bloodstone, a Dark Green Semi-Precious Stone with Red Flecks
Bloodstone is an opaque chalcedony that is usually a very dark green, and distinguished by its flecks of red said to be the blood of Jesus when he was nailed to the cross. […]
It All Depends On What You Want: Ireland
In honour of St Patrick’s Day I’ve been up to some shenanigans with photo apps and the Irish landscape. Stone wall of castle ruins at Galley Head in Ireland painted in […]
Additions to spackle to add even more texture to your painting
June 9, 2011: The next demo in my mixed-media class was to create even more texture to the spackle mix with the addition of sand, pebbles, grit or other similar things. […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Lichen Abstracts
Lichen makes for interesting abstracts, usually in circular patterns of orange, yellow, green, white, black or grey. Orange and white circular patterns on a cemetery wall in France. Grey, green and […]
One Four Challenge December Review 2
From now on this December Review is about how I plan to carry on even though the One Four Challenge is taking a break. Using a series of photos to illustrate a story about a […]
Expanding on My Studies of Rocks
May 13, 2011: part of my one-a-day creative project Today I expanded on my studies of rocks. I was envisioning these rocks painted in an arrangement of squares, each square […]
