Posted by Annalee Beer on Mar 14, 2018 in Blog | 1 comment

Hi there! I’d like to write about the next five cards in my Brisbane Series project. Last time I wrote I took you through the first five images in the series. Now I’d like to show to show the next five.

This is the sixth card in the series. It was created with coloured pencil and acrylic paint. This one was something of a failed experiment. I wanted to create something subtly disturbing. Bright purple with yellow to me can have a little bit of a toxic feel to it, and thats what I was going for – but… in a stylized format like this it doesn’t really work. It comes off as more pleasant than disturbing. Everyone I asked said that it felt pleasant to them. I decided to add the caption to the card to at least hint at the idea that it could be read as disturbing, but, lets the audience make up their own minds.

This piece was created using acrylic paint. I have a window in my room which looks out towards the direction of the river. From my bed I can really only see the sky. Sometimes I am awake and sleepy at around 4:00-5:00am and I see some interesting colours in the clouds. I recalled seeing purple against a blue, so I decided to do that on a card. It doesn’t look at all how it did in the morning. This image has the classic brown Brisbane River feeling.

This is the first image in the series where I started to use my signature look of doing colour-work with squares. I was quite happy with the way this one came out, and now that I’ve done around 30 postcards this one is still one of my favourites. I like the sense of style in it. I think for this one I used coloured pencil, acrylic paint and watercolour paint.

This one also manages to remain one of my favourites. It uses the technique of small squares creating colours and I love how bright this one came out. It also looks just fantastic In its wood print form. I think this one is my favorite in its wood-print form. Its hard to describe, but there is something quite special to this one.

There is something lovely about the illustrative style in this one. It was created with simple tools, a blue fineliner with some black fineliners. In earlier floral works, especially my practice works on paper I used a hatching and cross-hatching style. I thought it would be nice to use this style in my Brisbane series.

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So thats it, that is how the next five pieces in this series came along. Part of the challenge is to create quite distinct images from the same base image. So far, this is working nicely – however when a series only has ten images in it that is to be expected. By the end of this project I want to have created at least 300 images, and I want them to all have a unique -something- to them.