4 Fruit and a palette knife

A palette knife is a blunt tool used for mixing or applying paint, with a flexible steel blade. It is primarily used for mixing paint colours, paste, etc. The palette knife is a very versatile instrument and is not just a tool for mixing paint on your palette. A palette knife can be used to create some pretty stunning effects, which are…

A lemon, an onion & a pear…

A set of three quick still-life studies with a limited palette. LEMON Stretched canvas – 30cm X 30cm Paint Colours: Titanium white, raw umber, burnt umber, cadmium yellow light, raw sienna   ONION Stretched canvas 30cm X 30cm Paint colours: Titanium white raw umber burnt sienna burnt umber cadmium yellow light raw sienna permanent Alizarin crimson…

Still life with teacup, jug and lemon

I began a course on Acrylic painting online with Will Kemp Art School.  The idea was to not only improve my painting techniques, but also to explore how to get acrylic to look like oil with all those beautiful shiny glazes and reflected light. The Acrylic pigments I used were as follows: • Titanium white…