http://paintbasket.com/studios/torbay Just another The Paint Basket weblog Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:37:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On 3 July 2010 Dennis held a Watercolour Workshop mainly for members of the Auckland Watercolour Society. The subject selected was a photograph of a local rural barn. Dennis had them brighten up the colours and also add a stream with submerged rocks instead of the paved (tar) road. Here ... http://paintbasket.com/studios/torbay/2010/07/03/474/ [caption id="attachment_462" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Water Carrier - Watercolour"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_468" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Abandoned Farm House - Watercolour"][/caption] http://paintbasket.com/studios/torbay/2010/06/02/dennis-paintings-1/ [caption id="attachment_441" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Early morning at Piha"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_442" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Lake Heyes - Queenstown - Watercolour"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_443" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Morven Station, Lindis Pass - Watercolour"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_449" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Lake Tekapo at sunset - Watercolour"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_450" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo - Watercolour"][/caption] http://paintbasket.com/studios/torbay/2010/06/02/paintings-of-new-zealand-2/ [caption id="attachment_435" align="aligncenter" width="237" caption="Finger Painting"][/caption] Final Painting at Workshop held on 3 April 2010 [caption id="attachment_436" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Detail of Bark and Grass."][/caption] Used fingernail Detail at Waterline [caption id="attachment_438" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Detail of Leaves"][/caption] Note the finger marks in leaves. http://paintbasket.com/studios/torbay/2010/04/09/finger-painting-in-oils/ Early Morning at Long Bay Sunset over North Island Waipu Cove and Hen and Chicken Islands http://paintbasket.com/studios/torbay/2010/04/09/new-zealand-paintings-1/ Never too old to learn! Keith (83 years old) His third painting. http://paintbasket.com/studios/torbay/2010/04/09/new-zealand-students-1-2/ Student's Paintings Below is a random selection of my New Zealand student's paintings done over the past year. In our studios you can stay on as long as you want to. Obviously, the longer you stay with us the better and more professional the results will be. Some of the ... http://paintbasket.com/studios/torbay/2010/04/09/new-zealand-students/ Here is a quick 1 1/2 hr pastel sketch on Ingress paper just to get my hand back into pastels after  not doing any for quite a few years.  It is from a photograph taken many years ago in Mpumalanga, South Africa while on holiday [caption id="attachment_334" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Stage 1. ... http://paintbasket.com/studios/torbay/2009/08/10/333/ Yesterday  afternoon (Saturday 8th August 2009) was the official opening of our new Torbay Studio. The weather turned out very pleasant for a winter's day and the turn-out was excellent. The open time was from 2pm to 6pm and  we averaged 10 visitors per hour. There was a constant and spread ... http://paintbasket.com/studios/torbay/2009/08/08/307/ On Saturday 1 August 2009 the Paint Basket Studio held an introductory Workshop to launch the new studio. We had 8 students who thoroughly enjoyed themselves in the use of the painting knife instead of brushes in executing a painting. I chose a Venetian scene because it needs a certain ... http://paintbasket.com/studios/torbay/2009/08/02/workshop-news-and-dates/