Dianne Paine

Australian Country View

Dianne Paine — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:50:29 GMT

Australian Country View

This view was taken on a campsite about 1 hours drive north of Melbourne. Painted with the soft grainy round brush.

Royal Arcade - Melbourne

Dianne Paine — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:06:44 GMT

Royal Arcade - Melbourne

Gum Tree Reflections - Melbourne

Dianne Paine — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:29:07 GMT

Gum Tree Reflections - Melbourne

This is another painting of local scenery around the city of Melbourne. This was originally taken in the parklands opposite the National Gallery of Victoria, which is right in the heart of the arts precinct in Melbourne. It's a beautiful area of Melbourne.

The painting was done with the Soft Grainy Round Watercolour brush and I brought some of the detail back with the Camel oil cloner.

Melbourne City Circle Tram

Dianne Paine — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:00:35 GMT

Melbourne City Circle Tram

Melbourne Australia, Tram & City View

Dianne Paine — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:30:12 GMT

Melbourne Australia, Tram & City View

This is another view of Melbourne taken from Princess Bridge looking back towards the top end of Melbourne.

The tram in the foreground is one of the modern everday trams that are used all over Melbourne. Which are no where near as attractive as the one I painted a couple of weeks back. The first brown building to the right of the tallest in the photo with the spire on top is of significance to me.

I worked in that building for a number of years before I was had a family. It was then the head office of the ANZ Banking Group and I was working in the Personnel Department. It was a great place to work and the views from that building were terrific. Facing from that building towards where I took this photo is actually looking across Port Phillip Bay. The views across the city and the bays were fantastic.

Another noteworthy mention is that the two towers (that one and the one next to it) are called the Collins Place Towers and when they were built they were modelled off the Twin Towers in the USA of the fated 9/11 fame.

Caffe Cortile

Dianne Paine — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:01:14 GMT

Caffe Cortile

Melbourne has a HUGE cafe culture. I really like the idea of trying to capture some of this culture in an art form.

I took the photo for this with permission from the cafe owner, a great fun Italian bloke, and have since sent him some copies.

This Photo was converted to sepia tones prior to painting in detailed watercolour. Then used the camel oil cloner, artists pastels, and new simple watercolour.

I wanted to retain some of its photographic qualities but also add the less detailed look of a watercolour in other areas.

Degreaves St, Melbourne

Dianne Paine — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:08:25 GMT

Degreaves St, Melbourne

Degreaves St is a colourful laneway in the heart of Melbourne. It is one of the many laneways around Melbourne where you can get a cheap and casual lunch.

This particular laneway is widely known and also has an area for graffitti artists to express themselves.

Painting done with The Bristle Oil Brush.

Black Chook

Dianne Paine — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:22:06 GMT

Black Chook

Painted using layers and the detail on the chook was done with the smeary round brush.

Letterboxes

Dianne Paine — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:56:22 GMT

Letterboxes

I took the photo for this piece a few years back with the intention of doing a textile piece. But somehow it never happened. Since that time our computer crashed so I only have the photo that I had printed at the time. so I've scanned it back into the computer to create this piece.

At some point I want to do this painting again and use bright colours with reds in and let it be a really bold piece, but at present I don't really know whether I can do this in this programme. So maybe down the track you will see this pic again

Painted with the Opaque Acrylics.....I am really enjoying this brush at present and finding out just what it can do. The background was morphed using a blender brush.

The original photo was taken in South Gippsland, Victoria. Usually you will find that a number of farms will all have their letterboxes together near the side of the road, probably to make it easier for Australia Post.

Old Car

Dianne Paine — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:31:25 GMT

Old Car

Pumpkins

Dianne Paine — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:29:56 GMT

Pumpkins

Original photo taken at a farmers market.

Woods Point Service Station

Dianne Paine — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:27:47 GMT

Woods Point Service Station

This old service station still sells fuel. It is in a remote part of Victoria in the Alpine country.

Tallarook Trees

Dianne Paine — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:11:20 GMT

Tallarook Trees

Painted for my sister in laws 50th birthday, of a view on their farm in Tallarook.

Melbourne River View

Dianne Paine — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:09:08 GMT

Melbourne River View

This is my city Melbourne. And I love it!

It is a very cosmopolitan city with a wide variety of ethnic groups. You can eat out cheaply in Melbourne and try food from just about anywhere you can imagine.

The parks and gardens are as good as you will find anywhere else in the world,and it is also a great place for walking and bike riding.

The original photo for this painting was taken 12 months ago whilst doing the Yarra River Walk (The river in the photo is the Yarra River).

Painted using the Opaque Acrylic, then used camel oil cloner for the reflections, & the Tapered Gouach brush for fine detail.

I hope you enjoy my city!

Beach Boxes

Dianne Paine — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:34:59 GMT

Beach Boxes

On Sunday we travelled on the new Freeway that opened in Melbourne. The largest road opening in Australia. We headed down to Mt Martha where we used to spend Christmas with our kids and my husbands family. It was a cold windy winter's day but I managed to get a couple of good photos.

This painting is of a group of the beach boxes that are dotted along the foreshore. Beach boxes are quite an icon in Melbourne and many photographers take photos of them and prints are readily available. I wanted to create my own version of this popular theme. I'm really excited with the end result.

Fromelle Soldiers..."Lest We Forget"

Dianne Paine — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:51:23 GMT

Fromelle Soldiers..."Lest We Forget"

There has been a lot of news lately about the discovery of Australian soldiers mass burial site in Fromelle in France. The search for our missing WWII soldiers has been talked about for years and when they started digging up the field and found things like a button or a military badge, everyone got excited.

The talk since then has been whether or not they should try and Identify more than 5000 men and exhume the bodies to return home. I've come to the conclusion that since these men fought together and died together and have been sleeping there now for such a long time, they should remain there and a special monument built.

Tolouse sent me a photo of the Cobbers Memorial in Fromelle in France, after we had been talking about it. I was keen to paint it. Now I've finally finished it as a tribute to our soldiers, and to Tolouse who has an ailing soldiers body but a heart as big as a lion's, and whose generosity at times has made me cry.

The sculpture "Cobbers" is by Peter Corlett of Melbourne. The sculpture is based on 3101 Sergeant Simon Fraser of 57th Battalion, a 40 year old Victorian farmer turned soldier who rescued many men from the battlefield, carrying a man of 60th Battalion. Later, Fraser, as a Lieutenant of 58th Battalion, was Mentioned in Despatches before being killed at Bullecourt on 12 May 1917. His name is recorded on the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.
This painting was done in oils. All hand painted, no autopainting at all.
"Lest We Forget"

Proud Rooster

Dianne Paine — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:07:54 GMT

Proud Rooster

First attempt at layers. this took me many days before I believe that I got it right. I'm very pleased with the results on this one and thoroughly enjoyed the painting on the birds plumage.

Rooster

Dianne Paine — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:11:10 GMT

Rooster

My first attempt at using the layers function in the programme. Still got a long way to go to master this technique.

Pink Washing Blues

Dianne Paine — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:21:35 GMT

Pink Washing Blues

I saw this washing whilst on holidays last year. I just had to sneak back with my camera...hope no one saw me.

How could anyone ever have washing blues with this colour washing!

Painted using the oils auto paint.

Impressionist Ballet Couple

Dianne Paine — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:57:34 GMT

Impressionist Ballet Couple

Painted using impressionist tools with added lighting and texture.

Original photo used by courtesy of Richard Calmes you can view his site on:

http://www.pbase.com/rcalmes