Gallery – Page 97 – Kaiser Caimo

Ocean, Co. Galway. Quick digital painting, Photoshop CS2 (2007).

Evening sky in May. Digital painting, Photoshop CS2 (2007).

Sky over Cork in July. Digital painting, Photoshop CS2 (2007)

Skyscape. Digital painting, Photoshop CS2 (2007)

I can’t feel at home unless I’m near water.

River; digital painting, Photoshop CS2. (2007)

This is Neil, apparently. I don’t remember where he came from but he’s on my hard-drive.

Monoprint + digital frippery.

Female head study. Monoprint, approx 5×7", and the preliminary sketch.

Female figure study. Monoprint + white pencil. Approx 5×8"

I had these prints stashed away in a folder because they didn’t print right and I thought they looked sloppy and illegible. Then I decided, ACTUALLY, I quite like them. So here they are.

Monoprint + graphite/white pencil, approx 5"x7"

Further experiments in ink and bleach. These Winsor & Newton colours are all obnoxiously bright to begin with, and the effect of the bleach varies: it knocks a garish aquamarine back to a nice, faded denim colour but it turns emerald ink into a hideous acid green. I tried to subdue this figure with a wash of purple but I think it’s less interesting as well as less offensive now.

I’m having enormous trouble with colour in general lately. I can’t get colours to chime. I’ll either have to start limiting my palette again or just be more considered in my approach and plan in advance how I want different parts of a painting to interact. Booooo-ring.

Ink, bleach, watercolour & pencils on Bockingford paper, approx 12"x6".