When picking out my subject for today’s little painting I was a little surprised to find that nearly all my lipsticks are almost identical in shade! Its not even as if I wear lipstick that much – it never stays on, I put it on and then a few minutes later it seems like its…
Read MoreWorking 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 –…
Read MoreAlso 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…
Read Moreoil on canvas 6″ x 6″Another colour experiment. I started with a purple and cerulean ground and then worked into that with colour. More paint on the canvas this time.Also have had this idea in my head for a charcoal for a while and after reading Stacy Rowan’s post about seeing things that you want…
Read Moreoil on canvas, 6″ x 6″The first of my “homework” – I’m sure I’m still not getting the paint on thick enough (that is SO hard for me, I want to scrape off and leave minimal paint on the canvas! I’m using cotton reels as they are nice solid blocks of colour to work with…
Read Moreoil on canvas 6″ x 6″Today’s daily painting is the last bite of cherry pie from last night’s slice (yes, I did eat it – the first ever cherry pie of my life!). I started out with the fork on a plate but after failing to get my colours together I abandoned the plate for…
Read Moreoil on canvas 8″ x 8″Not sure about this one – think I am going to have to do a little more work on it after I have left it a bit. For some reason this was a real struggle and I can’t figure out why. It strange how some days putting paint on canvas…
Read MoreAnother manic painting session with more running up and down the stairs. Its one way to get some exercise! Beginning to get a little panic struck about my shortage of canvases. Going to have to think seriously about making my own canvas boards. Great delight with the mail arriving today – the friend whose portrait…
Read MoreNothing like painting ice-cream to make you paint fast!! I think someone on the outside looking in would have been rather amused by my running up and down stairs with a choc-ice. I painted a bit then took it back down to the freezer while I worked a bit more on building up the painting,…
Read MoreI recently made a list of my favourite artists and wrote down why I liked their work – the artists are many and varied in style, Monet, Bonnard, Seurat, Macke, Thiebaud, Diebenkorn, Hopper, Rothko to name a few. The predominant theme that ran through my little discourse was colour. It struck me as strange that…
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