FH414 Simple Gifts VII (lady among trees)

FH414 Simple Gifts VII (lady among trees)

10 x 8" oil on panel

This experiment is a coloured version of the Black on White sketch, BonW11.  I wanted to try white outlining as a way to expand the line techniques for a projected large work. The white drawing in oil certainly adds another dimension, and perhaps satisfied my occasional need to scribble on every bit of the panel.

FH413 Simple Gifts VI (lady with lotus)

FH413 Simple Gifts VI (lady with lotus)
10 x 8" oil on panel

An experiment in brush drawing. I am trying to emulate the feel of the Black on White sketchbook drawings, very freehand and full of lines and patterns.

FH412 Simple Gifts V (green)

FH 412 Simple Gifts V (green)

10 x 8" oil and collage on panel

Another experiment, using ink drawing techniques with brush and oil.

FH408 Simple Gifts III (brush, mug)

FH408 Simple Gifts III (brush, mug)
10 x 8" oil on panel
$70

Lately I have been scratching white lines into my little oil paintings, and laying contrasting lines of colour next to each other.  It has a flickering effect, as the colours change before your eyes, coming forward one moment, receding the next.  Yet the technique is flat and graphic, every line and area laid out side by side.  Each line takes the brain somewhere else, though, pushing and pulling.

I made a list a while back, of all the things in a single day that I enjoy, and I was surprised at the length of it.  Almost everything on the list is a simple thing, or a momentary thing...coffee in my favourite mug, the lovely flower blooming in the kitchen window, my brushes and paints always ready for play.  Simplicity is freedom.