![]() Much like my White Waratah, the drama, contrast and impact it will ultimately bring the finished work will be beautiful. It doesnt look like much yet, but I have begun the roughing into clarify my drawing and layout into the painting process and developed the background into my beautiful blacks which i love so much. Really you must… it’ll be fun, and I need you to come up with a name for this very special piece! I hope that you will join me through its progress. ![]() Thank you to those who rescued me and my enormous canvas along the way!Īhead I have a busy time, travel and research away from home, teaching, my amazing NZ masterclass event, and other projects going on around me too, but for the change of pace and for the love of flamingos, I will be working away at this one between everything else on my plate over time until it is complete. My home and studio slips into creative space chaos once more, my garden maintenance can wait again, groceries… huh? and I am finally ready to start my flamingo painting. Now I have rearranged my studio for the work ahead and the final coat of gesso is drying in readiness. Getting the board and materials home in my tiny car to my tiny house to my tiny studio was not a path so clear… I had to be rescued several times in the course of getting prepared for the flamingos project, but I was so determined stick with it. Measuring 120x120cms in size, this large, striking bird painting is a flamingo study rendered in acrylics and it feels like just the remedy for me right now! When I saw these flamingos images I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and so Im trying something completely different, making and a wonderful change of momentum and focus for my hand and mind to rest in between all things. Spending working so intensely on my new Watercolour Lotus tutorial for you all over the past few months, I have been really looking forward to starting a new project. Certainly I am excited to share the process of this new flamingo painting with you here again. Honestly, this incredible beauty needs to be expressed and shared with the world and I am so grateful and thrilled to have a chance to do just that in some way. He knew I was in utter lust and so kindly offered them to me to reference for this work then and there. All my deep childhood fascinations of flamingos can racing to the forefront of my mind in an instant, and I was mesmerised. A beautiful photography friend of mine Peter Caddy took a series of remarkable flamingo photos on his travels recently, and my heart just stood still at the beauty he captured in the images. Sometimes you see something so magical… an image, a vision, a moment before you that leaves you so moved and inspired as an artist that you simply must capture it. ![]() Flamingo Painting – 120x120cms – A Study in Acrylics – SOLD The general layout for my flamingo painting ‘The Great Romance’
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