Finger Painting

Recent Work

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  Just add water (please view large) by MelDavies

  Experimental compilation of hand painted background (acrylics and ink on heavy card) and digitally painted foreground using pen tool, eraser and smudge tool. To see original acrylic and ink image before digital paining see ‘Under the glass’

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  Blombosch cottage stormy day - near Yzerfontein by Alma Horn

  Blombosch cottage stormy day with fynbos in front – near Yzerfontein, South Africa

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  Bush Christmas - Mel's Creative Marathon #001 by MelDavies

  Digital painting in Arcsoft Photostudio. / Started creating at 4:00pm and can not stop

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  'Noxious or Luscious' by Lynda Robinson

  Pastel on Sanded Paper (Burgundy Colourfix) 50cm x 35cm Blackberries are considered a noxious weed in Australia! However, they manage to survive attempts to eradicate them, and they really are luscious!!! Featured in Works on Paper group – Feb 2009 / Top 10 in the Painter’s in Modern Times ‘Just a Little Bit Fruity’ Challenge – June 2009 / Featured in Painted Nature group – July 2009 / Top 10 in the Fruit & Vegies challenge in Freedom to Shine – August 2009 / Featured in Impressionist Art – Oct 2009

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  Under The Sunset by Constance Widen

  “Hold me close, under the sunset / and let God’s reds and oranges soothe your eyes / like this is all a dream” / DANIEL ALEXANDER HOWELL This is a representation of Ted Widen’s photograph, “Pioneer Hay Barn”, one of the old barns that have fallen into disrepair here in the Bulkley Valley, BC in Canada. I’ve used 8.5” x 11” (A4) Daler Rowney Ingres paper with Schmincke, Sennelier and Unison pastels.

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  Ten Things You Must Never Say To An Artist…Are you still into painting? I thought you gave that up and got a real job…

  WILDFLOWERS…JZ 487 Views

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  Trees at Dysart by Lynda Robinson

  Pastel on Colourfix paper (burgundy) 70cm x 50cm Late afternoon shadows mingling with a multitude of warm colours among the trees was what drew my attention to this scene. Dysart is an area close to Seymour and beyond those trees lies the Goulburn River.

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  Abstract...The Approach by Janis Zroback

  As I was painting this abstract, I pondered the many meanings to the word “approach”...for example there is…. / The simple act of drawing near…. / A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. / The temporal property of becoming nearer in time..e.g. “the approach of winter” / The final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing… / My painting is mainly concerned with the last two…I wanted to evoke both meanings of the word…it is the final curtain of autumn and winter is fast approaching..pockets of red and orange gleam here and there, as autumn stubbornly defies the chill, but at night the icy fingers of winter touches everything with frost..in the countryside snow drifts casually down, as if refusing to admit it’s here for good…another look at the painting evokes the final approach to land…stars twinkle in the night sky, the land shows the last vestiges of fall and the approach of winter….we are excited, relieved to have made it home safely once more... Watercolour on Aquaboard The half-stripped trees / struck by a wind together, / bending all, / the leaves flutter drily / and refuse to let go / or driven like hail / stream bitterly out to one side / and fall / where the salvias, hard carmine— / like no leaf that ever was— / edge the bare garden. William Carlos Williams / A Conjunction of Elements / After The Harvest / There’s A Light in the Darkness / Midnight on Egdon Heath / Reflected Glory / Tightwire / Realities

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  Storm Clouds Over Winter Mountain Blues by Constance Widen

  “Who will hold my hand, / Soaring on blue wings / In that misty land? / Who will take my hand / To guide me from that far land / Back to sweet mortal things?” / H.C. BOSMAN A representation of another photograph by Ted Widen of Hudson Bay Mountain in British Columbia, Canada. I’ve used 8.5” x 11” (A4) Daler Rowney Ingres paper and Schmincke, Sennelier and Unison pastels.

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  Do You Give Your Art Away?...Illustrated...…I said no to giving my painting to the magazine and I had to call the police to get my paintings back from the restaurant.

  / / / / / / / All Images from my Portfolio collection

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  Where Am I by Diko

  Oil On Canvas / 60.0cm x 50.0cm

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  Rolling In by Lynda Robinson

  Pastel on sanded Colourfix paper (burgundy) 25cm x 35cm (Note for the Finger Painting group – this was blended with my fingers)! Just a small study at Marengo Beach, near Apollo Bay, Victoria, just after sunrise. Challenge Winner – ‘Open Sea’ in the Realist Paintings About Water Group – January 2009 / Challenge Winner – ‘Sunrise/Sunset’ in the Mornings & Evenings, Sunbeams & Storms Group – January 2009 / Featured in the SEA group – February 2009 / Featured in the Colour me a Rainbow group – May 2009