Archive for March, 2010

Gordon Richards – fire sale!

Here’s an opportunity to get a piece of art from the highly collectable artist, Gordon Richards, for an amazingly low price.
Bella Art Gallery in Brisbane has been asked to sell this piece by a private collector who requires a very quick sale.
They have one painting by Gordon Richards. The piece is 100cm tall by 60cm wide on stretched linen and is of chillies being tossed over a hot pan.

This piece was appraised some years ago for $6,000, however, the owner is looking for a very quick sale, so Bella Art Gallery will submit all reasonable offers to the owner, even offers as low as $3,000 to $4,000!. As an example, new pieces 91.5cm x 213cm sell for around $13,000. Please email info@bella-arts.com.au. Alternatively you can call them on 07 3818 2787. This piece has just come to market, and we will have more information on it in due course.

Untitled – Woman’s Face by Paul Gleave

This painting is available for purchase. Painted by Paul Gleave, this painting has been painted in acrylic and finished with varnish on a custom made gallery stretched canvas. Paul Gleave is a visual artist based in Brisbane, Australia.

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Originally from the UK, Paul Gleave studied art at Newcastle College of Art & Design in Newscastle-Upon-Tyne, England. He then moved to London to start a career in Advertising as a freelance Commercial Concept Illustrator for London based Advertising Agencies. This essentially saw him producing concept style marker renderings for TV Commercial storyboards, as well as other media, to be used by Advertising Agencies to pitch their campaign to their clients. Following that, Paul moved on to a role at a photo library in London producing digital artwork. During this time Paul spent his spare time painting landscapes and realism paintings and sold these paintings in exhibitions throughout the city of London and in the North-East of England. In 2002, Paul moved to Australia with his wife and 13 month old son. Paul admits to not re-visiting his painting career for a few years from about the year 2000 to 2005. It was around this time that Paul began painting Australian landscape scenes, but he quickly started to move his art into abstract works, citing the sunny Queensland climate and vibrant colours as an influence for a more vivid, brightly coloured and more abstract way of painting. Paul married his wife in Brisbane during the Riverfire festival in 2002, so his first Australian Exhibition saw him produce a wildly colourful series depicting the Brisbane Riverfire festival with exaggerated buildings and paint flying around the canvas as fireworks, produced in a chunky, thick meaty style. This way of painting was a million miles away from his usual landscape work of the UK.

A successful exhibition resulted, and Paul continued to paint drawing from his time as concept illustrator. Concept illustration required the “appearance” of being quickly drawn and coloured, while accurately rendered (with prior drawings produced before the final concept drawing was created). This concept work presented itself as a lively, vibrant image of movement as if it had just been filmed. Paul has carried this forward into his artform, producing a series of Lips and Female faces that have been rendered in a semi-abstract style, with meaty lumps of paint thrown around to present the subject with life and movement. Paul says that his subject matter, being lips and faces, as something advertisers frequently depict to promote their products; products that require the senses such as taste, or arousing the visual sense such as images that people find desirable, in order to promote their products. Paul paints lips and faces in sultry and lively ways, with vivid and exaggerated colours to accentuate their form. Paul has had 3 exhibitions so far in Australia.

Ruby Lips Painting

This painting is available for purchase. Painted by Paul Gleave, this painting has been painted in acrylic and finished with varnish on a custom made gallery stretched canvas. Paul Gleave is a visual artist based in Brisbane, Australia.

Click here to order this work as a card or print from Red Bubble!

Originally from the UK, Paul Gleave studied art at Newcastle College of Art & Design in Newscastle-Upon-Tyne, England. He then moved to London to start a career in Advertising as a freelance Commercial Concept Illustrator for London based Advertising Agencies. This essentially saw him producing concept style marker renderings for TV Commercial storyboards, as well as other media, to be used by Advertising Agencies to pitch their campaign to their clients. Following that, Paul moved on to a role at a photo library in London producing digital artwork. During this time Paul spent his spare time painting landscapes and realism paintings and sold these paintings in exhibitions throughout the city of London and in the North-East of England. In 2002, Paul moved to Australia with his wife and 13 month old son. Paul admits to not re-visiting his painting career for a few years from about the year 2000 to 2005. It was around this time that Paul began painting Australian landscape scenes, but he quickly started to move his art into abstract works, citing the sunny Queensland climate and vibrant colours as an influence for a more vivid, brightly coloured and more abstract way of painting. Paul married his wife in Brisbane during the Riverfire festival in 2002, so his first Australian Exhibition saw him produce a wildly colourful series depicting the Brisbane Riverfire festival with exaggerated buildings and paint flying around the canvas as fireworks, produced in a chunky, thick meaty style. This way of painting was a million miles away from his usual landscape work of the UK.

A successful exhibition resulted, and Paul continued to paint drawing from his time as concept illustrator. Concept illustration required the “appearance” of being quickly drawn and coloured, while accurately rendered (with prior drawings produced before the final concept drawing was created). This concept work presented itself as a lively, vibrant image of movement as if it had just been filmed. Paul has carried this forward into his artform, producing a series of Lips and Female faces that have been rendered in a semi-abstract style, with meaty lumps of paint thrown around to present the subject with life and movement.

Paul says that his subject matter, being lips and faces, as something advertisers frequently depict to promote their products; products that require the senses such as taste, or arousing the visual sense such as images that people find desirable, in order to promote their products. Paul paints lips and faces in sultry and lively ways, with vivid and exaggerated colours to accentuate their form.

Paul has had 3 exhibitions so far in Australia.

Colour Theory (Artist’s Colours)

As an artist, we are taught that the primary colours are Red, Yellow & Blue. A primary colour is one that cannot be mixed from any other colour.

In fact, the red, yellow & blue primary colours came from the primary colours of light being Red, Green and Blue. When these colours intersect they produce Cyan, Magenta and Yellow as secondaries, which became primary print colours. These colour modes can be looked at in much more detail (RGB for digital display & CMYK for print), but for the purpose of this, we will look at the artist primary colours.

Primary Colours:
Red, Yellow and Blue – cannot be mixed from other colours.

Secondary Colours:
Two primary colours mixed resulting in Orange, Green and Violet.

Tertiary Colours:
Known as Intermediate Colours, tertiary colours are the result of one primary colour mixed with one secondary colour.

Hue is another name for colour. To change the hues of an image is to change the colours. Chroma or intensity of colour is the brightness of the colour, or lack of it (dullness).

Tint is created from a colour plus white.

Colour Combinations:
Using the the colour wheel above, pleasing combinations can be made. When choosing colours, you don’t just stick any colours together, as the result can be vulgar and displeasing to the eye. The human brain knows why this is the case at an unconcious level, which to the viewer indicates a palette that just doesn’t work (even though they don’t know why).

Looking at the colour wheel, two colours that are opposite compliment each other. This is the science of colour. They work well together. Usually one is used as a dominant colour with the other used to compliment in certain areas, especially in design. If both are used at equal levels, they both fight for attention, and it simply doesn’t work (hence a blue shirt and orange pants is a real pain for the eyes!) Generally, the dominant colour is chosen with its complimentary thrown in to add a little contrast and interest.

Split Complimentary:
With that in mind, a split complimentary scheme can be chosen with a dominant colour and two complimentary colours at either side of the dominant colour’s complimentary.

The wheel can be used for further colour schemes which will be added later

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