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Shoot it, Sketch it: Smartlea Street Bridge
Smartlea Street Bridge – Christchurch, 2012. This week’s Shoot it, Sketch it photograph was taken around the corner from our house last autumn. You can just make out the curve of the little footbridge...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Blue
Blue (seagull #2) – mixed media, 205 x 290 mm, 2013. Seagull #2 – Akaroa, 2012. I hope you like this week’s Shoot it, Sketch it. The water and the seagull standing on the wall are two different...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Gerbera study
Gerbera study – acrylic on card, 200 x 280 mm, 2013. Gerbera study, detail. I’ve been experimenting with my new paints… and I’m in love with quinacridone magenta! Today’s Shoot it, Sketch it is all...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Last minute
Hagley Park sunset sketch – ink and watercolour, 205 x 290 mm, 2013. Hagley Park sunset – Christchurch, 2010. A last-minute sketch of the last minutes of a sunset in Hagley Park (because the acrylic...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Sunlight is green
Sunlight is green – acrylic on watercolour paper, 205 x 295 mm, 2013. Here, as promised, is my painting of the sunset in Hagley Park (taken from the same photo I sketched last week). If you’re...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: The colour of snow
The colour of snow – acrylic on canvas, 315 x 315 mm, 2013. The colour of snow, detail – click on the image to get an even better idea of the texture. Spreydon Domain, original photo – Christchurch,...
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Shoot it, Sketch it collaboration
Harbour wall – graphite and watercolour, 255 x 205 mm © Anna Cull 2013 Newlyn Harbour Wall, Cornwall © Poppytump 2013 Last month, fellow blogger/artist/photographer Poppytump posted a wonderful photo...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Between the lines
Between the lines – acrylic on canvas, 305 x 405 mm, 2013. Telephone lines – Tauranga, 2013. I have a thing for telephone poles ― I know I’m not the only one. Painting this was a bit of a mission and...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Flow (WIP)
Flow (work in progress) – acrylic on canvas Hamurana Springs, original photo, 2013. This week’s Shoot it, Sketch it painting is an abstract inspired by the reflections in the crystal clear waters of...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Going with the flow
Flow – acrylic on canvas, 505 x 405 mm, 2013. To see the photograph that inspired the painting and the poem, visit last week’s post.
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Stand in the place where you live
Stand – pastel on card, 295 x 205 mm, 2013. Redwoods – Hamurana Springs Reserve, 2013. We encountered these exotic giants on our way to Hamurana Springs. The redwood grove was planted in 1919 and so...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Reflection
Reflection – acrylic on canvas, 280 x 355 mm, 2013. Akaroa Harbour beachfront, cropped, 2012. While organising last week’s In the style of… post, I stumbled upon this crop of the Akaroa Harbour...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Riding the waves
Riding the waves – acrylic on paper, 355 x 280 mm, 2013. Jet boat – Huka Falls, 2013.
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Waxing the moon
Moon sketch – Neocolor II pastel on black paper, 148 x 105 mm, 2013 Moon over the city – original photo, 2006 and edited photo, 2013 For years I’ve been wanting to create something based on this view...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Moon
Moon over the city – acrylic on canvas, 505 x 405 mm, 2013 Here is the finished painting based on last week’s photo and sketch. In real life, the texture of the night sky is quite subtle and, in some...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Survivor
Survivor – ink and coloured pencil, 195 x 220 mm, 2013 The old cash register – Tauranga, 2013 We discovered this beautiful antique in an art gallery while we were away on holiday. The till and its...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Historic Empire Hotel
Historic Empire Hotel, Ross – ink and watercolour, 200 x 255 mm, 2013 Historic Empire Hotel – Ross, 2013 Fresh off the drawing board, here is a little sketch of the hotel we stayed at in Ross last...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: The iris patch
The iris patch – Nelson, 2011 The iris patch – acrylic with palette knife, 255 x 200 mm, 2013 This was painted with my trusty palette knife (no brushes) so that I could experiment with texture (you can...
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Shoot it, Sketch it: My autumn almanac
Autumn calling, 2013 Autumn calling (blue, detail) – mixed media, 2013 Today’s Shoot it, Sketch it is yet another experiment. The inspiration was a photograph taken at our back door last April....
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Shoot it, Sketch it: Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope, original photograph, 2011 Exploding colour – acrylic on canvas, 255 x 255 mm, 2013
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