Ohara Koson - Bird serie

Heron in the snow - Ohara Koson

And the last one of the Ohara Koson's bird...

Kingfisher II - Ohara Koson

Seasonal...

(paintings not yet mounted hence their appearance, especially the left one...)

Snowy kingfisher

Koi and egrets

I do struggle to paint on my own, at home. Yet if I take two days off work specifically to paint, what a pleasure it is ! So last week I took thursday off and friday (11th of november) was public holiday. So I had two days with nothing else to do but paint. And those were two quite productive days. I almost finished a second version of my heron in the snow (the one that sold at the fair), and I did some more birds in the snow (the egrets below copied from a painting of Ohara Shoson, as was the heron) and I did some more koi that I decided to organise as a triptych. A wash is near complete and a gongbi lotus painting is on its way!

Finally...

This one definitely won't end up on a wall, but at least, it kept me busy for a little while ;-)

Kingfisher

2011: the year of the Rabbit

In anticipation of the year of the Rabbit, the theme of last Saturday painting class was... rabbit! I was kind of relieved it wasn't going to be insects as I initially thought.
I have therefore done a range of rabbits, and a hare watching an "outside of the frame" moon...
It's a pity the paper is not smooth and therefore the pics are not great, but I am not sure any of those bunnies is worth being properly mounted! Sorry guys...

Seafood galore

Long time no post... No excuse really... the summer, the holidays, one painting class in July, one in September, and a cancellation for the October one.

The theme for the July class was Crustaceans. Even if it is not a subject that I found particularly motivating, I really like the idea of going back to traditional chinese brush painting. ie, mostly black and white, more subjective than detailed... So in the end, I was really happy with the class!

They might almost all look the same, but I thought I would put a few examples of my shrimps and crabs here.
In the first picture, I tried to consider the composition of the picture and the addition of the seal gives it that little 'extra'.
The others are just studies...

Chinese painting and watching soccer don't mix...

Or 'how to destroy in 5 minutes a tiger I was pretty happy with'... Judge by yourself !

So from a nice composition, covering my paper diagonally, giving the tiger a sense of 'motion', I will now end up with that:

















At least, my cat didn't suffer the same fate!












Nor did my lotus... but gutted about the tiger. I will never ever watch soccer again. I never do anyway!


Anyway, those paintings have just been mounted and are still wet... they might look a bit better towards the end of the week... fingers crossed (although nothing will change with the tiger!)