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She's leaving home

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In this painting I am hoping to evoke the feeling of that she's leaving but he doesn't seem to care too much.

Sinister?

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This painting came out of an exercise to compose a picture using one shape and then expanding on it if necessary. Everyone who has seen it so far feels it is a little sinister with deep emotion hence the title!

Madonna of the Rocks [ala DaVinci]

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This abstract comes from a painting of Leonard DaVinci entitled "The Madonna of the Rocks", he painted several of these and my painting is based on the one in London. I like the floating effect as though you are up high looking down upon the bottom plane

Debra 09

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This small abstract was completed this week. It was taken from a drawing I made several years ago of a low sitting model and I have abstracted her image so that the parts are no longer in their original places or planes.

Mauritius arches

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This was an exercise in taking a simple view and using the cubist method to show simply the various planes of the painting.

Cow Skull

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This simple abstract was made from some sketches taken of a cow's skull from different views. I chose to make it as simple as possible but still keeping some interest.

Devon hillside I

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This is the first of two paintings made last week depicting a high horizon line. This painting was done in watercolour and is therefore more transluscent than the gouache version following. It also has more details in it.

Devon hillside II

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Last weeks exercise was to produce a painting with a high horizon line. This is the second painting I did, as you will notice from the first there is a lot less detail in this version.

Maritius curves

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This was an exercise in taking a photo/drawing and changing it into its simplest forms and showing the different planes of the painting. I used a photo taken at a hotel some years ago in Mauritius

What do they see?

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This is a 15x19 [unmatted] gouache on paper which I finished earlier this week. It was based on a couple I know who were gazing out into no where and I hope I have conveyed this.

Falling

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During the last few months I have been actively studying abstract painting and these are a few of my current works. This one called 'Falling' I hope will give you the feeling of weightlessness and decent from above. The size of the unframed piece is 11x11"