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First attempt at dotty stone painting. Tools used include: A cocktail stick, a cotton bud and an old pencil with a rubber on the top. Acrylic, finished with exterior varnish.
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Three-way cat feeder. The dog was jumping on the table in the day to steal the cat food, so now their bowls are safely at the back of the 'pens.' Made from reinforced cardboard, brush and airbrush, acrylic paint + coat of yacht varnish.
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This was a 'collaborative' family painting: The owls were made up and drawn in pencil by my, at the time, 7-year-old and 9-year-old daughters. The idea was for me to take my childrens' drawings of owls and render them in acrylic colour. The pentagonal frame was made from scratch. The little owls were designed by the younger daughter and the older sibling did the rest.
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Detail of the owls designed by the younger 7-year old daughter.
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This was done mainly during school lunchtime art club. It depicts a far off land where a proud gardener has just won first prize for her mushroom and luminous lichen garden, and is posing for a photo. Acrylic brush and airbrush.
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This I did at lunchtime art club demonstating how complicated building structures could be built up on orthogonal paper. It all looked good until right at the end and I had a disaster: I had used a variety of ink pens for the detail on top of the acrylic, and it turned out some were alcohol-based and some were solvent-based. As such, one layer of the wrong varnish stripped off a lot of the detail and had to be redone, but finding a 'neutral' varnish that would leave all the ink alone turned out to be quite a search, in the end, oil-painting varnish did the trick, but a lot of the original depth of colour and intricate detail has now been removed.
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Detail of the above.
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Just a couple of recent sketches at an art group.
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Very simple mountain effect on a miniature stone slab.
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