This is the last painting in the series of a course Phil gave me for Christmas in 2013. I know, I know, more than a year ago, but I have been so busy with all my other art and giving in to urges to paint all sorts of other exciting things that I put this…
Tag: still life
Golden Delicious
This was an exercise in creating a shape from developing the light and shade to build the form of the apple. For the coloured ground (the yellow under painting I apply to the white canvas before I draw on the shape and begin painting) I used the following: Yellow ochre Cadmium yellow light For the…
A toast…
This small glass study was undertaken with the idea of learning to deal with reflective surfaces and coloured glass and how the use of layers of paint and glazes can give a more sophisticated ‘old master’ feel to the work. Colours used: •Titanium white •Burnt umber •Ultramarine blue •Mars black •Burnt sienna •Raw sienna •Yellow…
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…
Jug still life – A limited palette
I have wanted to try my hand at still life painting for a while now, but haven’t felt quite confident enough to take on the challenge on my own. It was in school last that I did any kind of still life painting so I was looking for support in the form of online courses…
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