A small scribbly drawing of some potato flowers. Coloured pencil on toned paper.
Sunday 30 June 2024
Thursday 2 May 2024
Magenta Teapot
Every now and then I need to paint a teapot. (I drink a lot of tea!). Here is a quick sketchy painting. The shapes and the tonal values were from observation of a little round teapot. The colour palette was from my imagination and not what I saw in real life. A mixture of the seen and the invented to make a colourful vibrant image using inky water soluble pencils in my sketchbook.
Monday 1 April 2024
Tara's Blue Utpala Lotuses
Digital variations made on the iPad pasting in and transforming photographs of some of my artworks on paper.
Sunday 24 March 2024
Thursday 25 January 2024
Thursday 18 January 2024
Tuesday 16 January 2024
Foliage Still Life in Blue and Purple
My starting point was a photograph of a moody and decorative collage made on a dark winter's day out of cut and torn fragments from another piece along with crystalline watercolour to bring out the forms. Multiplying, transforming and layering the image I made variations on my iPad. The original collage is the first image followed by three of my favourites from the sequence.
Saturday 6 January 2024
Ratnadakini, Sky Dancer of Earth and Jewels
Next in the series of small circular paintings of the five wisdom dakinis. Ratnadakini is accompanied by Ratnasambhava's horses (they support his lotus throne) and dragons. For me dragons are wisdom beings akin to Nagas and also symbolise the freeing of the subtle energies of the body.
Friday 29 December 2023
Magic City Doodles
More ideas for ways to make an image of the Magic City of the White Lotus Sutra.
My current exploration across all themes is the interplay between spontaneity and planning. Improvisation versus structure. Making a surface combining different kinds of wet and dry media on paper.
In today's doodle I play with light and dark using tinted charcoal and gold pen, thinking about pyramids, the sun and moon and a stairway to heaven.
And this is an earlier mixed media sketch (pastels, water, marker pen) - there surely are gardens and music in the magic city. .
Friday 8 December 2023
Solid Air
A few studies from my sketchbook using oil pastels and watercolour aiming to express a sense of the element of Air symbolised by a green crescent bowl. The pastel sketch of the stupa is here to give the image context of the green crescent of air.