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On the easel…

May 9, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
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I’m working on a new orange still life at the moment. Again this is on home-made board and uses the following palette: Titanium white, lemon yellow, cadmium yellow, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, alizarin crimson and ultramarine blue. The first stage was to roughly paint the outline of the orange halves with yellow ochre and Sansodor. [...]

Lemon Study

April 27, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
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I have just finished this lemon study. It’s 30 x 19.5cm on homemade canvas board and is a really great surface to paint on. The palette I used here was titanium white, lemon yellow, cad yellow medium, burnt sienna, permanent rose, and ultramarine blue. I will be selling it off cheaply (when it’s fully dry [...]

Currently in progress…

April 3, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
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I’ve got two still life’s in progress at the moment, one with red apples and one with lemons. Each painting has had two passes so far, the first was just to establish positions on the canvas and get the canvas covered in thin paint. After this layer had dried a bit I went over them [...]

Loaf and knife still life

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I eventually got round to finishing off the loaf painting. I decided I didn’t need to do any more to the loaf itself, so I added the knife in the foreground, made the table recede into the background and added a blue glaze to the left hand side to show some cool light entering the [...]

New Still Life

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Apples and Red Vase is my new oil painting, 40 x 30 cms on canvas board. I tried adjusting my palette for this one just as an experiment, swapping permanent rose for alizarin crimson and transparent gold ochre  for yellow ochre, but keeping ultramarine, lemon yellow and burnt sienna. I also added light green. I [...]

Currently on the Easel…

March 9, 2013 by · Comments Off
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I thought it might be interesting to document my painting process. This painting is not finished but I will post the final work in a week or so. I have fallen into this way of painting over the years and find it works well for me. I start off by diluting a suitable colour with [...]

Lemon and Limes Still Life

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Lemon and Limes still life oil painting by Steve Driver. 30 x 24 cm oil on canvas board You may also like:Complementary Orange?New oil painting – Orange HalfConverse Still Life

Converse Still Life

February 22, 2013 by · 1 Comment
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This still life is slightly different for me in terms of subject matter but the concept behind it is still the same – that is, I like to try and show the beauty in everyday objects or show how we can look at things in different ways. I had the idea to do this painting [...]

Marbles 3 – New still life

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My Marbles series continues with this new still life. I have gone for using cool colours which is reflected in the palette: Titanium white, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, cerulean blue, winsor green, light green, alizarin crimson, dioxazine purple, and cadmium yellow medium.   Its oil on canvas 12 x 9 inches and about 3/4 of [...]

Apple Still Life

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New oil painting entitled Apple Still Life by Steve Driver Oil on stretched canvas 12 x 9 inches can be hung as is, or framed with a floater frame if required. I used a fairly limited palette for this one: Titanium white, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Sienna, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, and Lemon Yellow [...]

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