by Andy Dolphin | Jun 3, 2012 | limited palette, oil painting, workshop
Last weekend I hosted a painting workshop for members of Mitchell House in my home town. We had a great day and there was some terrific work done.I had members choose just three colours – a “red”, a “yellow” and a “blue”...
by Andy Dolphin | May 11, 2012 | caricature, digital art
Digital sketch in Photoshop:Someone recently commented here that they enjoyed my caricatures and that they were looking for one of Wayne Swan. I didn’t have one but with the Federal Budget going live earlier this week, I thought it was time to remedy that...
by Andy Dolphin | Apr 28, 2012 | building, landscape, limited palette, monochrome, oil painting, step-by-step
Back in February, I entered a challenge set by US artist Terry Miura to paint a simplified version of a streetscape from a photo he supplied.I chose to enter a digital painting, done in Photoshop, but it did whet my appetite for doing a streetscape of my own, in...
by Andy Dolphin | Apr 22, 2012 | clouds, issues, landscape, limited palette, oil painting, plein air, sketch, sunset, weather
I’ve not had much opportunity to get out and paint recently but did manage these two quick sketches in the last week.The first was completed in around 15 minutes and was the end result of a “comedy of errors”. I was breaking in a new French easel and...
by Andy Dolphin | Mar 25, 2012 | landscape, oil painting, sunset
Here’s my most recent painting…(Roadside shadows. 60x40cm oil on board. © Andy Dolphin)The silhouette created by the shadow area in this scene really caught my eye as I drove along a road near Mt Shadforth recently. I have no idea what kind of tree that...
