Freycinet Cove

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Comment by Barbara Morris on August 27, 2012 at 2:33

Your words 'an illusion of great detail' really hit home with me!  I think they describe the style I've been envisioning, but could not put my finger on.  Thank you!  No wonder I was so drawn to your Workshop12 painting.   

Comment by Richard Robinson on August 24, 2012 at 15:36

Wow fantastic colours Susan  - it's just singing!

Comment by Patricia Genever on August 15, 2012 at 19:02

Great choice of colours Susan.. I particularly like how you have weaved the yellow pigment in the zig zaggy shape offsetting the greens and blues very nicely.  I agree it does help to look at other artists techniques and especially helpful if you have your own picture.  Good on you for mentioning your inspirational source too...!!

Comment by Susan Skuse on August 15, 2012 at 18:10

I'm trying a new study method here - copying, but not really.  Taking a painting from one of my favorite Australian landscape painters, Warwick Fuller, I found a photo of my own of a similar scene and, puting the two images side by side, tried painting my own scene with Fuller's techniques.  Except that he uses brushes that look like chewed sticks with great big blobs of paint on the end, and manages to get exactly the right colour and tone with an illusion of great detail, with a marvellous impasto texture - all well beyond me.