Black and Green

By Anita Murphy / January 13, 2009 /

10″ x 10″, oil on canvasWorking with a limited palette of viridian, cadmium yellow light, cobalt blue, alizarin and titanium white. Applying more paint and using a larger brush – the problem as usual was not tweaking with a tiddly brush at the end. I have to get over the idea that all edges have…

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Unwrapped

By Anita Murphy / December 8, 2008 /

Working with blue underpainting proved more difficult than the magenta did. Very hard to get cleaner colours for the icing. The extemely subtle colour changes in the cupcake case were very hard to do and not revert to using tiddly brushes. I’m trying to get myself to do more sketching so this is todays –…

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With A Cherry On Top

By Anita Murphy / December 7, 2008 /

Also had great fun working this landscape – I need to take another look at it tomorrow in the daylight as I think it needs some tweaking. Its a very long time since I have done a landscape – I think this is the first in around 3 years. Landscapes were my first love in…

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