Bowl of Chocolate Truffles 2018 | Dion Archibald | Oil on canvas 30x30cm I made these chocolate truffles myself and I wasn’t impressed with the taste but I thought they looked great so I painted them. I’ve always liked playing with white and the many colours used to represent it. These are white truffles in …
Gold Coast Fog Cityscape Painting
Gold Coast Fog 2018 | Dion Archibald | Oil on canvas 35x28cm Painted from the same location as the previous Gold Coast cityscape painting but the weather has deteriorated. I like seeing the two paintings together like a diptych.
Gold Coast View Cityscape Painting in Australia
Gold Coast View 2018 | Dion Archibald | Oil on canvas 35x28cm View from the Q1 Tower on the Gold Coast in Surfers Paradise, Queensland in Australia. I forget what level I was on but it was up high. It’s not always blue skies and sunshine in Queensland. I also painted this same view of …
Dusk Road Night Time Painting
Dusk Road 2018 | Dion Archibald | Oil on canvas 30x30cm Bend in the road, heading into the Australian bush at dusk. I’ve always intended to do a series of night paintings but am still yet to get around to doing it.
Smiley Cat Portrait Painting
Smiley Cat Portrait 2018 | Dion Archibald | Oil on canvas 30x30cm This did start out as a serious cat portrait commission for my friend but I just couldn’t get a facial likeness. I thought the body of the cat was a pretty good painting but no matter what I did to his face, it …
Pile of Prawns Still Life Painting
Pile of Prawns 2018 | Dion Archibald | Oil on canvas 30x30cm I’ve painted prawns a few times now. Partly because I like cadmium orange, but also because I like eating prawns. I don’t think I’m done with painting nor eating them, they will return to the plate and the easel.
Boat Harbour Seascape Painting
Boat Harbour (NSW, Australia) 2018 | Dion Archibald | Oil on canvas 30x30cm Boat Harbour is a little suburb in the Port Stephens area of New South Wales. It’s a nice place to escape to for a few days.
Fallen Branch (in the Australian Bush) Landscape Painting
Fallen Branch (in the Australian Bush) 2018 | Dion Archibald | Oil on canvas 30x30cm I used to pass these trees almost everyday when I lived close to the bush. It was a manicured 9 to 5 tick-tock middle class suburb but I lived on the edges of it so I had easy access to …
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Sandals Still Life Painting
Sandals 2018 | Dion Archibald | Oil on canvas 30x30cm A very well used pair of paint-spattered sandals. I usually only buy Birkenstock sandals but these were a cheap Chinese brand and they wore out much sooner than usual. They were comfortable though.
Walk up the Street in Maitland Landscape Painting
Walk up the Street in Maitland 2018 | Dion Archibald | Oil 30x30cm This was a view I saw almost everyday on my daily walk. Trees and road to the left, railway line to the right. I didn’t intend for the painting to be this loose but I got to this level and felt that …