Moving on to Instagram!

Hello anyone.

I have decided to finally leave off on the blog and move on to Instagram, which I am loving and doing a better job of getting my artwork up more often than I did here.

I might have to reuse a few of my favourites from these images if I run out of new stuff.

https://www.instagram.com/robincave1/

Come and have a look!

Merri Creek sunny Sunday

Another nice day down by Merri Creek... right next to a homeless camp/shelter...

Van Gogh style at Merri Creek

Another trip to Merri Creek with the ipad.
Channeling Vincent this time. A time consuming way to paint, but fun. This view is almost the exact reverse of the previous image. Its looking down the hill, rather than up it.

Merri Creek Spring 2019 - Procreate on ipad

Getting the hang of some new Procreate brushes on the ipad...

New pattern tiles

Here are a few new patterns I have been working on, each made with a few simple tiles.

Succulents

Digital pastel test in photoshop

Just playing around in photoshop after watching a Karen Margulis pastel demo on YouTube...

Gippsland Highway

Don't think one is quite finished yet...

Digital Bush painting

All done in photoshop... here is a detail of the bottom left.

Aussie tree - Digital paint

 

Doing lots of Australian landscape painting using digital techniques...

Merry Xmas

here is an illustration I did recently for the UX mastery website, who I have been doing several illustrations a week for, over the past few months.

Hope you had a good one...

Troublesome cubist painting...

 

Still not quite there but getting closer....
Never done a painting like this before, could maybe have left it a few sessions ago...

Cat spray stencil & linocut

Here is a unique print I did a while ago. I have to find all the bits again and do a series as it proved popular and I only made 3-4 impressions...

Abstract Painting

A recent sort of surreal/abstract painting.

I thought I had lost this blog when I shut down my website (Nov 2018) but it's still here...
Fantastic! This is where I will put all my recent artwork. Enjoy.

Digital Palette Knife Painting

First try at using some of the digital palette knives in Photoshop.

Palette knife painting

Harvey Weinstein

Loving some of the new photoshop brushes.

Have a good downfall Harvey...

A beach in Tassie

Trying out more of the great new Brushes in Photoshop...This was based on a lovely little beach near The Bay of Fires which we visited in Tasmania a while ago.

2018 - New Year / New Pattern

Here is a new repeating pattern I have been working on... with some bright colours behind it, it looks a bit 60's. Would make cool black and white lined tiles ...

Birthday fun

I am in the middle of reading the biography of Saul Steinberg, who I have always thought was one of the 20th centuries greatest artists, cartoonist, visual philosopher and all around master draftsman.

Been looking at lots of his work online and today I had a play making a Steinberg style landscape with stamps... It was fun.

Isometric cube-land with dimensional pattern... rough idea

I was revisiting my tiled patterns and wondered if I could add some dimension to it. Here is what happened.

1) Put a tiled square onto the surface of an isometric cube.

2) Seemed interesting so I grabbed a few other tiles, a bit rough around the edges ...

3) I tried using just shading on the pattern to give some dimension.

4) And tried the same in colour but it didn't quite work...

5) ... it needed some background shading to help...

6) ...and here with flat pattern on shaded background

7) But it seemed most interesting when I offset the background. Three tones in the whole thing!