November 2011 Blog Posts (9)

Along with brush stroke add color variation with warm, cool and neutral grays

Pa Beach, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.

Not a bad spot eh!? This is from my recent trip to Great Barrier Island. If you are keen like I am to use this photo for the next online workshop please do click on the image and then use the 'like' button to vote for this. I've also been commissioned to paint a large painting of this so it would be nice to kill two birds with one…

Workshop3 IA  16X24 oil painting

"Sunset Dunes" 10x8" Oil on Board

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Yesterday evening I took a jaunt down the back of the dunes and set up to try to capture the fleeting colours of sunset. Gotta…

This presented me with so many challenges! Wanting the eye to go through the window to the village scene which was the subject of the painting - keeping the frame (castle window) dark enough to be in the foreground - but without arguing with the gorgeous rooftops of…

This lil dude oil painting is an 8x10 on a canvas board Looks like winter is going to settle in so won,t be be going out to paint again so will be working up some larger pieces from this summer and fall en plein Aire paintings.

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"Pa Beach" 10x14" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson

Spent 2.5 hours painting on this nice beach this afternoon in the good…

The wind kept kicking up on this 8 x 10 western art landscape oil painting. $100.00 buys it.

Hi All, postcard from the edge here on Great Barrier Island - 20km off the coast of New Zealand. We're here for a few days giving a painting workshop which has been heaps of fun with a great bunch of people. Looking forward to the next couple of days exploring more of this amazing island and will hopefully fit in another painting or two. About 800 people live here…