Be gentle

[Adaerel]

Hello
These are drawings I did when I lived in Wollongong. The first is Lake Heights, The other two are Port Kembla. The other is a life drawing. Please tell me exactly what you think.

[Petra Sohns]

Hello
These are drawings I did when I lived in Wollongong. The first is Lake Heights, The other two are Port Kembla. The other is a life drawing. Please tell me exactly what you think.

i did not see that post before now, it is easy to miss a post here because everyone moves so fast and also new work pops up so quick

I got to hand it to you I adore naive art and i think you did a fantastic job with great detail, i can not paint like that ,but i admire people who have a eye for placement


your sketch is nice too

[crumpet]

I love these, especially the third one along. I really like flattened perspective, and these have a great storybook quality to them. While they're very different, they kind of reminiscent of David Frazer's work (http://www.dfrazer.com/) to me.

[Jewels]

Just love em, havent seen paintings like that for years, they are fabulous, so well done...

[Bob Abrahams]

Hello
These are drawings I did when I lived in Wollongong. The first is Lake Heights, The other two are Port Kembla. The other is a life drawing. Please tell me exactly what you think.

Adaeral
These are great
I would like to see how you would approach these subjects today

[emkay]

Nice one Adaeral. Reminds me of some of Reg Mombassa (Chris O'Doherty)'s early works.

see here (http://www.wattersgallery.com/artists/O%27Doherty/O%27Doherty2.html)

[sweetmango]

I really enjoy these paintings, for some reason they remind me of home (NZ) I really don't know why, but I think it is because a lot of artists in NZ paint the areas around them like this, utilising the Maori perspective of carving as a medium for painting. Either way I really do enjoy the colour, and simplicity of detail whereby an artist takes the dominant shapes, contours and colours and places them onto a canvas.
Thanks for sharing your paintings
Sweetmango

[Helm]

Your paintings make me believe that life is good!

[Adaerel]

They are drawings. I did them with coloured pencil, water colour pencils actually, because they are softer.

I just googled David Frazer, didnt know of him. Man that is a crazy compliment. I think those paintings are really special, the prints are too. The paintings use a kind of division of the canvas into layers or qeometric subdivisions. I can relate to the way the forground and the distance are at the same visual distance. I mean he flattens the landscape and just from the description I have writen here you can imagine some highly simplified almost abstract image. But he is so much more subtle than that. He seeks out balance and symetry in the landscape and that is nice. He has a great eye for intersting composition. Often it is the bits that are missing from a composition that make a work more compelling and he illustrates that brilliantly. Thank you for the introduction. I think he differs alot from me too, but I can really relate to his work.

http://www.dfrazer.com (http://www.dfrazer.com/)

Anyone unfamiliar and interested should check out his work.

Helm, life is good.

[crumpet]

My class went to a show where David Frazer did an artist's talk. It was so much fun. He's really easy going and seems like such a child at heart. His work is very much about storytelling.

[chardonnay]

I love the pencil drawings. Why? They strike me as pretty. The colours all go well together, the green with the earth colours I find visually pleasing to my eye.

[inkgal8290]

love the drawings so australia suburbia and such

[inkgal8290]

do u know the work of reg mombasser? http://www.regmombassa.com/

[Adaerel]

Yes, I am familiar with his work.