Peter

This is one that has been hanging around since last year, which I forgot to put up....The drawing is a bit awkward, but I quite like the colour.

24x36. NuPastel on Kraft paper.

Hanna Take 2

A little too far to the expressionist side perhaps, but it's a start. NuPastel on Kraft paper, 24x36.

Richard

No model this morning! Seems to be the flu. So we got the artists who arranges the sessions instead. (For his work, please see: Richard Rudnicki )
These are all pencil on 12x12 Canson drawing pad paper.

Hanna

Pencil on Canson sketchpad, 14x17 (this has been cut down a bit). A rough 3 hour session, this took the last 40 minutes, and was about the only presentable sketch. (I really hate it when one has a good model, good light, and nothing works).

She was a lovely model, and I hope to be working with her in the future.

MacDonald Head, November and December

In late November and early December, we had three or four Mondays in a row that brought big storms, and big waves, and high winds. So I would head out to MacDonald Head with Shorty, the sketchbook, and a camera, and catch whatever I could. And then dash back to the studio, dry off, and get back to work.
This is the first one; the wind was strong enough to make standing very difficult, but we tried working our way up from Stony Beach. Until a squall came in. It's a marvellous site until it's directly overhead...oil on canvasboard, 11x14



Another day we headed out - this one was cold and damp, with long rolling breakers coming into the outlet between Stony Beach and the eastern end of Conrad's, and grey foggy skies. In a funny way, it's my favourite weather. That cad yellow really is to harsh though. Oil on canvasboard, 9x12



During another storm, Shorty & I went climbing around on the head, which resulted in this picture. The offshore buoys were recording waves of 25+ feet, inshore I guess they were around 10-15 ft, though it's very hard to judge. What struck me then - and it's something that often does during these storms - was the odd colour of the light, particularly in the fog that rolled in and out. Oil on canvasboard, 10x14



But the storm moved off quickly; as it cleared the double layer of clouds stood out, and the rosy tints off to the south, and the sea which had been beaten into a froth. Oil on canvasboard, 10x14



And the next day? Back to something more serene.Oil on canvas, 11x14.

Laneway, December

Time to catch up on uploading work!. Snow in the lane; started outside, finished inside. 11x14 oil on canvasboard.