Posted by Stephen Quirke on October 24, 2011 under Art, Drawing, painting, portrait, watercolor, watercolour | 
This is Sam. She is the grand-daughter of my good friend and tip-top watercolourist Mary Serrurier. Sam models for a group of painters and offered to sit for me. So one afternoon in between meetings in town we had a quick session. OK portraits are hard and this is what I did from photos that I took. This took much longer than the hour I had sitting with Sam. Maybe its a bit over-worked. But I am happy with this.
This is on Arches Hot Pressed and is 380x280mm
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on October 23, 2011 under Art, Betty's Bay, painting, watercolor, watercolour |
On Thursday 10 November, here is how the two triptychs look:
Version 1:
Version 2:
Saturday 5 November: I touched up quite a bit – here is how it looks:
Sunday 30 October: here is how it looks now. This is pretty much it, there will be touch-ups:
Each of the sheets is 300gm Arches Rough – 760x560mm
And I was listening to a selection of music by Haydn.
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on October 11, 2011 under Art, Betty's Bay, en plein air, painting, watercolor, watercolour |
This is Bass Lake in Betty’s Bay, from the Eastern end.
It is painted on 300gm Arches cold pressed (180x290mm)
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This is Sam. She is the grand-daughter of my good friend and tip-top watercolourist Mary Serrurier. Sam models for a group of painters and offered to sit for me. So one afternoon in between meetings in town we had a quick session. OK portraits are hard and this is what I did from photos that I took. This took much longer than the hour I had sitting with Sam. Maybe its a bit over-worked. But I am happy with this.
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