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 them precious things. Where: Britannia Art Gallery (in the Library), … Continue reading My ‘Precious Stones’ Exhibit at Britannia Art Gallery
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 with inlaid brass, and rutilated quartz. Detailed of a carved rhodonite rose … Continue reading Rhodonite, a Pink Semi-Precious Stone
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. (Chalcedony is a microcrystalline quartz with a hardness of 6.5 to … Continue reading Bloodstone, a Dark Green Semi-Precious Stone with Red Flecks
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 the photo app Psykopaint.I then ran it though Stackables, another … Continue reading It All Depends On What You Want: Ireland
June 9, 2011: The next demo in my mixed-media class was to create even more texture to the spackling mix with the addition of sand, pebbles, grit or other similar things. The trick is to mix the plaster, acrylic medium … Continue reading Additions to Spackling to Add Even More Texture to Your Painting
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 yellow lichen texture a wall in Bruge, Belgium. A nearby … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Lichen Abstracts
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 place or event. I started out with the idea that … Continue reading One Four Challenge December Review 2
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 about 10”x 10”, and each painting exploring a different texture/media; … Continue reading Expanding on My Studies of Rocks
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