Tag: Oil Painting
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The Journey of Serpent Artwork
I had two prints of the photo I took in the Kimberleys of the serpent. The image was for a specific artwork. Ordering the second photo was a “just in case something went wrong” addition. After completing the first work, I grabbed an off-cut piece of canvas, glued the extra photo down and blocked in…
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Letting Go: Creative Techniques for Artistic Transformation
A few years ago, I whited out a complete artwork. The painting wasn’t working. I scratched back into the wet white paint. The effect that emerged pleasantly surprised me so, instead of disposing of the canvas, I kept the “new work”. More recently I’ve been consciously whiting out old paintings, not because I don’t…
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Transforming Trauma into Artistic Expression
I first lifted this canvas onto the easel with the intention of doing an abstract painting. In the process of laying down the paint, as the shapes formed, the intent changed. The Gaza war had begun. I was pre-occupied with the secondary trauma experienced by those around me. As the nightly horrors of the war…
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New Growth Follows Fire
Glorious colours from emerging ferns on the wet heathlands behind my house where the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service did a controlled burn.
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Art Travel
Today I took some paintings of Bhutan out of storage. I would have been travelling right now, but instead I am preparing for Noosa Open Studios. If it wasn’t for Covid-19, I wouldn’t be opening my studio space up for people to visit. If wasn’t for the border closures between Queensland and the southern states,…
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Painting in Oils Again
It’s so long since I’ve worked with oils. For some reason I have the desire to do so again so I bought out an oil painting that had graced the bathroom wall for quite a few years. That’s the one of the joys of being an artist. You always have work on hand to instantly…
ART by Jude Tulloch 