A while back... Daisies

I painted this in 2012 (late upload, I know - reason being that I gave this painting to my grandma and kept forgetting to bring my camera to take a photo of it :P)

Anyways, this painting was the "black background" project that my art teacher assigned me. The daises were done using palette  knife.

For Dad...

Back wall done with palette knife & tree done with paintbrush.

I liked that this painting combined both painting techniques as well as two different styles. The contrast between the stingy, dark, 'trashy' wall and the pure, light and "full of life" tree as a theme is really cool. I definitely want to work with this idea again.

MR. Flamingo... probably my favourite!

Please excuse all the wall space in the photo:P 

I painted this flamingo back in 2012 using only palette knife. I'm extremely happy with how the background and the body of the bird turned out :D

Giraffe !!!

 I just brought this guy home last weekend :D This was painted completely by paintbrush... decided to take a break from the knives. Thankfully, the otherwise detailed tree and (especially) giraffe are just black shadows so I actually enjoyed painting them:) I guess this painting is a bit simpler.. though the tree, the leaves and the branches on the ground required some time and effort!

More Rockkkkkks

This painting of some place in Ontario (i forget.. oopsiiesss) was completed a month or so ago. I used brushes for background (sky, water, waves) and palette knife for the cliff :D This canvas is actually a gallery canvas, meaning that it is thicker than regular canvases.. so the painting sort of continues onto the 1 inch sides. 

Onto the 2012's....

These were both painted in 2012, also inspired from different photographs.

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The painting above is of a Canadian landscape and it was my second painting by palette knife.. (you could say my first legitimate one as the painting in the previous post was much smaller, simpler and less detailed) I remember having trouble in the middle of the process.. I had to redo the further rock-mass a million times before I was satisfied. haha

 After spending nearly forrrrrevvverrr perfecting the rocks above, I decided to try something new and paint (using a brush) these flowers. Although they came out nice... this was when I discovered that painting precise details (with shading and gradient and all) was totally NOT my thing. I was in a bit of a standstill with this painting because painting the same flower over and over again got pretty tedious and a little bit boring... oh well :P

First Palette Knife!

This colourful sunset was painted in 2011. This was my first palette knife painting (see below for more info) and it was a challenge! I guess you could say this little piece was the start of my palette knife passion :)

These are palette knives and you use them to.. uh paint. I guess you could say there's a special technique, but once you get it down its pretty simple and fun to experiment. Using knives to paint as opposed to brushes creates a 'messier', more textured look (though you could definitely paint precise details as well) I guess its personal preference but I would say that overall I prefer the technique and the result from palette knives more so than paint brushes :) 

Various Palette Knives

Blueeee Sunset

I'm pretty sure that this was my first painting on a bigger canvas (not sure the exact dimensions... but it was much larger and more 'legit' than anything I previously painted) This one was finished in 2011 :)

Hello & Welcome!

hello, welcome to my blog! 

The bottom painting is the first piece of artwork I've ever created :D The purple sunset was maybe the 4th or 5th? They were both painted 2-3 years ago.  (I've come a long way since.. hehe) Anyways, as with all of my paintings these were inspired by photographs from different photographs/calenders/albums/books.