Monday, February 25, 2013

Bold impressions

In a bid to get my painting mojo back I decided to cash in my voucher and enrol in a one day workshop at ArtEst. Having had a rollicking good time with Paul McCarthy previously I decided to go for the 'Bold Impression' workshop once more.


Paul is a master in the application of colour theory. He paints with one brush and mixes his colours on the canvas and never puts a ground on his surface. Yet the results are eye catching and harmonious. His trees are pink, his sky hardly ever blue but they are far from discordant.



This painting is of an urban landscape - the rooftops of Balmain, near the Dawn Fraser pool. There is something harmonious about a row of terraces. The shapes are like frozen music.