Cath Sheard Art

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Pastels for a change
I have been working mainly in acrylic and ink for quite a while now. I love the speed of working with acrylic, and the ease of cleaning up. But I also miss getting my hands in the medium. So I’ve started using pastels again, playing round on full sheets of Colorfix paper.

Sure, it dries my skin out. Sure, the dust gets all over me. But you know what? That doesn’t matter, cos I’m loving it. The immediacy of the medium is wonderful – the colour on the paper is the colour of the stick (is the colour on my face as I wipe my hand across my temple!) I can’t believe I stopped using pastels for so long. Silly me…

Materials: reference photos, full sheet Colorfix paper, Unison and Art Spectrum pastels, and my fingertips. Magic! Not finished yet, but thought I’d share the WIP.
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April 4, 2009
After Motherwell 2
Here is the 2nd in the Motherwell series, which will be going on display in Auckland from June of this year, unless sold first. 30×30″ acrylic on canvas. Its counterpart, which I posted about last week, one a NZ Art Guild competition.
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March 24, 2009
After Motherwell wins with NZAG
As a member of the New Zealand Art Guild I regularly enter their Masters Month competitions. The most recent competition was to produce a work inspired by Robert Motherwell. This piece won the NZAG Masters Month competition for Feb/March 2009. As I said when I entered it, I started off inspired by Motherwell and then got right into the abstract expressionist thing, and this is the result.

It’s 30×30″ in acrylic and ink on gallery wrap canvas and is for sale on ArtFire.

After Motherwell #1
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March 17, 2009
Full tide 2
Here’s another 4×8″ work, thinking about the Tasman Sea as seen from our beautiful beach, and the hot colours of sunset at this time of year.

Full tide #2
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March 15, 2009
A portrait by Jeanette
Huh? Okay, let me explain. Jeanette Jobson is one of the artists involved with Watermarks, a blog I follow. I hopped over to her blog last week to see what she was up to and commented on something I saw. Nothing unusual in that.

The next thing I know, we’re friends on Facebook. Cool; it’s great to be networking with other artists. For Jeanette’s birthday she was drawing out the name of someone who’d commented, to do a portrait for and I won. Wahoo – I am so excited! The photos I sent Jeanette are shown below.

My Mum is turning 85 in late June. As many of you know, Mum has chronic health problems and was not meant to live this long, in fact 2 years ago now the health system started putting palliative care in place. So this birthday is special. And have a watercolour portrait, done by Jeanette, to give to Mum is extra special. Thanks so much Jeanette, I am so appreciate of your generosity.
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March 13, 2009