The image above is a work in progress shot of the still life that I’ve been working on in my studio. In setting up this painting, my plan was to create an arrangement that would allow me to really push some of the visual textures. We have the rough wood of my studio table, the glass pitcher, …
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I’ve been digging through my boxes of pastels to find colors that I can use to unify areas of the painting. To do this, I try to find a color that can be applied to a few different objects. An example would be the light blue that I was able to use in the background, …
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I can’t even think of the last time I did a pastel still life. I had this composition all set up. I had a square oil painting panel out and ready to go. I was about to get out the oil paints themselves, and get to work. As I looked back at my set up, …
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Please click here to bid on this painting. I had such a great time painting this little silver bowl on Sunday, I decided to paint it again. I think what draws me to painting the silver bowl against a light background, is all of the lost edges. That means that there isn’t a lot of contrast between …
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