Stained glass picture and National Museum painting

I am soon taking part in an exhibition of art inspired by last year's trip to the Greek islands of Leros, Patmos and Lipsos.  Several gouache paintings from this were placed on this blog last year, but I decided to do one in glass.  The theme is houses in Lipsos.  The picture is meant to be hung in a window.  I've added two photos of this glass piece - one taken on a light table and one hanging on my deck.  The latter of course shows the trees coming through the largely transparent glass.  I love working in glass, but this was quite a hard project since there were so many small pieces of glass to handle.  All were wrapped in copper foil and soldered in the Tiffany style.



 





This acrylic painting was another one done in the style of Jeffrey Smart.  Although taken from a photograph of mine of part of the National Museum in Canberra, I have changed some aspects to make it more surreal.

Pastel Painting

I haven't used pastels for years but decided to try a painting of an old Greek man I photographed on the seafront on the Greek island of Leros last June.  The skin colour looks too red here but he was weather beaten anyway.

More paintings & photos

This is a painting in gouache of a door in a town on the Greek Island of Leros. I especialy liked the little bit of lace  hanging in the window.

This is a gouache painting of restored flour mills on the Greek Island of Leros

This is spring in my back garden with the prunus in flowers above the BBQ made of convict bricks. 
These were obtained years ago from an old demolition site in Sydney.

I couldn't resist another photo of my dogs asleep in their winter knitted jumpers.

New painting and a flower photo

  This is another painting in gouache of an old door on the island of Leros in Greece.



I was in the botanic gardens and I loved this native flower which comes from the terminal stem - it is called Hakea Winter Burgundy.

Greek Islands Painting Trip

It has been a long time since my last post but at last I have something to put up.  There were 15 of us Aussies on a painting trip with artist Michael Winters in the second half of June.  We stayed on the island of Leros near Turkey but made day trips to Patmos with its famous monastery and Lipsos, a small island with over 50 churches.  We mainly did drawings in pencil, charcoal pencils and coloured pencils with some attempts with gouache/watercolour/pastel.  Most of these are still to be developed into proper artworks as there was no time to finish the paintings and drawings.  What's more it was too hot to stay outside for too long.  I have many photographs I have yet to organise.  These four paintings in gouache are from photographs of churches on Leros and Lipsos.  I have simplified the backgrounds as I wanted the churches to stand out.