Owner: Pastel & Paint: Lesly Finn's Art URL:http://leslyfinnsart.blogspot.com Join Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:44:36 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: This is my blog about making art. Here you can see work in progress, view finished artworks, find art news, art talk, demonstrations and links to other artists. Site statistics:Click here
Save our dolphins! 2007-10-16 14:01:00 New Zealand is home to the world’s smallest and rarest marine dolphin – the Hector’s dolphin. Once distributed in waters all around the New Zealand coast line their numbers have declined to a degree that threatens their survival and the species has become divided into genetically distinct North Island and South Island sub-species: North Island Hectors (Maui's) dolphin AND South Island Hector’s dolphin Both are listed on the IUCN’s (World Conservation Union) Red List of threatened species, with Maui’s dolphin listed as 'Critically Endangered', due to an estimated population of just 111 individuals. The Hector's dolphins are slow breeders and because of this are at particular risk from human induced mortality through set net fishing.PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR DOLPHINS
painting against the clock! 2007-10-14 05:01:00 Have you ever sent in an entry form to an exhibition when you haven't yet done the painting? Lately I seem to be doing that too often ..... but at least makes me knuckle down and produce a piece of work!Last week I sent in an entry for a painting I called 'Nude II' which has to be delivered next weekend, so today I decided that I really must knuckle down and paint it. This was not so easy as John wanted help finishing off the basement conversion we are frantically trying to get ready for visitors next week, plus my daughter, her husband and our two grandchildren were due for Sunday dinner around 5 pm!But I did manage to get a painting done + some cleaning, furniture moving and meal preparation! The painting is acrylic on gesso covered tissue collage, - luckily it is only a small canvas measuring 12" x 9". Read more:against
Abstract paintings - three small entries 2007-10-28 19:07:00 New horizons(Acrylic)Fragment(Acrylic)On reflection(Acrylic)I have been fiddling about trying to get some entries together for the Locations Open Art Awards 2007, Queenstown, and have 'tidied up' three 12 x 12 canvases started earlier this year. I have done very little in the way of art lately and my newest piece has been entered into the City of Dunedin Art Awards 2007 (I am waiting to hear whether or not it has been selected).As Queenstown is over 3 hours drive away I decided that this year I would not take and collect works in person but send them via courier. However, using a courier service for large paintings can be a bit costly (e.g. sending two 36" x 24" canvases to Auckland recently cost $112 return) so I decided that smaller canvases were the sensible way to go, particularly while sales are so few and far between. Wish me luck! Read more:Abstract
a wedding in the family! 2007-10-28 03:13:00 A big surprise and much excitement for the past couple of weeks .... my eldest daughter in the UK and her partner decided to get married after being together for over 18 years! They had a very quiet wedding
with just my son to give the bride away, their 16 year old daughter as bridesmaid and two good friends as witnesses. We managed to keep in touch frequently via email, telephone and text messages through the pre-nuptials and the BIG DAY itself ...... which made the fact that we could not be there in person a bit more bearable.And as you can see she looked beautiful, and very happy!
I've something showing here and there! 2007-11-13 12:55:00 2007 City of Dunedin Art Awards ExhibitionOtago Art SocietyThe Art StationDunedinNovember 11 - December 22007 Locations Art AwardsQueenstown Art SocietyCnr Ballarat & Stanley StreetsQueenstownNovember 17 - December 210am - 4 pm dailyRenaissance Pre-Auction Exhibition(in aid of the Oamaru Opera House Restoration Project)View on-line from November 15The Forrester Gallery9 Thames StreetOamaruNovember 9 - November 3010.30 am - 4.30 pm daily Read more:something
Wading through glue ..... 2007-11-18 03:54:00 I hate to have to admit it but I am completely blocked at the moment .... not even the teeniest speck of inspiration on the horizon, no enthusiasm, nothing. When I try to organise myself to start something new my ideas just seems hackneyed or derivative. I feel that I am wading through glue!What a state to get into! All I can do is ride it out and hope that sooner or later I will be inspired and feel like picking up my paintbrush or pencils once again.However, it's not all gloom 'cos I had some good news today .... my entry for the Dunedin International Art Awards, Nude II, was selected and has sold. So my thanks to that someone somewhere who wanted to own it, - always a lovely feeling when someone buys a piece.
... going for a song 2007-12-05 13:34:00 Sunshine in a Pot(Pastel)The dinner and auction in aid of the Oamaru Opera House Restoration Fund took place last Friday and was reportedly very well attended. My painting did not quite achieve the price I had hoped for but it was not too far off. The fund and I share the proceeds 50-50, a win-win situation!
2007-12-21 13:10:00 To my artist friends and visitors to my blogWishing you all aVERY HAPPY CHRISTMASand plenty ofGOOD THINGS in 2008plus a big Thank You for your support this past year
Well, its a start ........... 2008-02-18 02:43:00 The Lawn Bowls season will be coming to an end in about a month's time and I hope to be blown away by new ideas and a desire to get painting!!! Meanwhile, I have at least had a good tidy-up of my work space! Well, its a start .............
rusty paint brushes! 2008-01-18 12:51:00 In a recent comment artist friend, Philip Edson, wondered whether my paintbrushes
were going rusty
as it has been so long since I did any artwork ... (rude boy!). Well, it just so happens that I've been de-rusting them this past week .......flutterAcrylic collage (12 x 12 ins)
this and that ...... 2008-01-18 12:24:00 Thought it high time that I started up my blog posts again .... I know I've been very remiss about it for the past few weeks! Two little bits of news to start off the year ........ firstly there is this great new RESOURCE online from Creative Spotlite: - the ART INSTRUCTION BLOG which has masses of links to all sorts of useful information on different media, art instruction and demonstrations, art books, forums, etc. GO TAKE A LOOK!And second, my entry for the City of Dunedin Awards Exhibition, held before Christmas, sold on the last weekend.
Sometimes blogging sucks ... 2008-03-28 22:46:00 I haven't been able to edit either of my blogs' layout recently due to problems with Blogger Layout page. This has been going on for several weeks and AT LAST I have found out what was causing the problem .... many months ago I added a scrolling bar feature to the top of this blog (a rather nice banner showing a selection of my paintings) and apparently it was this that was preventing the Edit features on the Layout pages from working properly. The reason? ..... because I had not written the widget in Javascript!!!! [Not that I would know how to, and everything worked fine initially until Blogger added some Super Dooper Whooper Features a couple of months ago ....! ] So I've had to delete the scrolling banner from this web page and am now able to access ALL the editing features on BOTH bl Read more:Sometimes
, sucks
Head to Head ......... in my own gallery!!!! 2008-04-03 22:26:00 Well here's a bit of news (hope you are there, Shez and Jafabrit!) .... as I am posting about a forthcoming venture AND announcing my new 'gallery' space.First of all there will be an exciting event in May when a group of more than 20 local artists are getting together for a 'Head to Head Art Tour'. The artists all live within the vicinity of the bay which runs between the heads of the Matanaka peninsula and the Huriawa peninsula, and will be displaying their work for one day. Some will display in their own homes or galleries and others will get together in local halls. My house is the very last one along the Huriawa peninsula and I now have a small gallery area all my own in our new basement extension. The extension comprises a large lounge (which I will also use to display a few paintin
March sales 2008-04-02 21:54:00 Two of my paintings sold last month after quite a dry spell - one an abstract, the other impressionistic in style. "Rhythms" sold at The Art Station, Dunedin and "Shell Seeker" sold at a fund raising auction in aid of the Port Chalmers Rowing Club.'Rhythms' 12 x 12 ins Acrylic on canvas'Shell Seeker' 12 x 8 insPastel Read more:March
this sporting life! 2008-04-12 14:27:00 I have never been much good at sport and from an early age realised that prowess in the field was not for me. Netball, hockey, tennis, it was 'no go' ... I could never make the team! In athletics I couldn't run or jump, in gymnastics I was terrified of handstands, flick-flacks and walking a beam! As for swimming I just about mastered the breaststroke but hated the crawl and refused to learn to dive. In fact I was a complete and utter washout! This I felt was entirely unfair as I love most sports .... but I resigned myself to life as a spectator.Unlike me, my husband always excelled at sport at school, especially soccer, and has natural ability but early fatherhood and the demands of his career prevented regular sporting activity. However, a couple of years ago we joined our local bowls c
keeping it simple ..... 2008-04-22 23:23:00 My biggest problem has always been lack of spontaneity in my painting. I try too hard and work over things too much. So today I set myself the task of completing a picture in under 3 hours. Admittedly it has been drawn up for days and the canvas had been stained in readiness .... and still staring at me from my easel!So this afternoon, while the OH was away at golf, I got out my brushes, etc and lugged it all downstairs to the kitchen (as it is exceptionally cold in my work-room/attic today), and got on with it.I am not exactly thrilled with the end result .... as it offends my sense of neatness! And I don't suppose my brush work is up to much, whatever 'brushwork' means (I have never really been able to find out)! But, it you ignore some dodgy edges plus some definite rough bits, perhaps
Head to Head ......... a good day! 2008-05-25 20:26:00 Well, in spite of it being a cold, wet and grey day yesterday I'm happy to say that our local Head to Head Art Tour was very successful! Participants reported a good number of visitors during the course of the day, doors opening at 10am and closing at 5 pm, and a steady stream of people.I had over 80 visitors come to view my work (+ a toddler and one dog!), and the interest and comments were very
Oil pastel on canvas? 2008-07-02 21:57:00 Last week I was browsing through some art books and found (and bought) this very interesting one:Title: The PASTEL BOOK - Materials and Techniques for Today's ArtistAuthor: Bill Creevy (1991)Publishing details: Watson-Guptill Publications, New York ISBN 0-8230-3905-6As you might expect from the title the book covers every aspect of using pastels and
good news week! 2008-07-02 21:45:00 Well another sale! .... my recent acrylic painting of a nude has sold. I renamed it 'Solitude' and entered it into the Otago Art Society's Member Exhibition in Dunedin. A lady came in looking for a small watercolour and bought my canvas instead!Another piece of good news is that my 'Tips for Acrylic Painting', together with one of my acrylic painting demonstrations, can now be viewed at Creative S
Mixed media on canvas .......... 2008-07-09 22:55:00 Village du SudMixedmedia
on canvas (20" x 16")My objective with this painting was to create an impressionistic image with plenty of texture. Click on the photo to view an enlargement and see more clearly what I was up to! I am quite pleased with the result ... it's pretty much what I had hoped to achieve.
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