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Detail of a painting of two girls by Gustav Klimt. The
original was stored in a castle during World War II for safety and burned
there with the building. |
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Acrylic ink painting started as a single red square, which
just grew to fill the page |
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One of my favourite Picassos. Outrageously colourful and
very rude. This is just the head, the whole body is coloured curves. You can
see her in
New York |
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A poor rendition of a very powerful self portrait.
The original is in the
Philadelphia Museum of Art I think. |
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My first full acrylic ink painting. There is a small amount
of watercolour, but it looked so weak I flooded the whole picture with ink
and liked the result |
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This was my first completely ink painting. No watercolour
to start at all. The sky looked frighteningly fierce, but overall, it looks
good. |
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A rapid, messy ink sketch of two dancers by Renoir. I am
very pleased with this sketch, it catches the essence (which is not noble
but good fun). The original is in
Boston (the Americans seem to have all the good paintings) |
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An elephant going about his business in Kerala. |
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Small sketch of a Keralan Theyyam temple dancer. Given as a
birthday card to a friend. |
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I love Klimt. This was a birthday card for a friend,
decorated with gold leaf to get the full gaudiness. He had just retired and
needed something to focus on. This seemed to work. The
original is in Switzerland but I can't find it online. |
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Picasso, Klimt, Matisse. Is there anything left to do? This
was an ink scribble on a MDF panel of part of Matisse's Joie de Vivre. I meant
it as a base for a small oil
painting, but I liked it so much I kept it as it was. It lives in my boat.
The
original is in the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, but
not online from there. |
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The Theyyam dancers in Tellicherry are wonderful, in the
true meaning of the word. My wife asked a little girl if the dancer would
walk on the baking fire that was waiting. "No, don't be silly, he's going to
sit on it." He did. |
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This was a challenge. A friend said, "Bet you can't paint
that". "Bet I can". "Alright, do it then!" I think I did.
The original is in the Musee d' Orsay in Paris,
probably the best art gallery in the world |
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