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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. [...]

Beer and Sweets oil painting

May 31, 2011 by · Comments Off
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Beer and sweets might seem like an odd combination for a still life painting but despite the obvious differences they have quite a few things in common too. Sugar, health, addictive qualities… I am not going to list them all however, thats what I want the viewer to think about! Overall this one was quite [...]

Learning from the Masters – Part 2

April 28, 2011 by · Comments Off
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As promised here is the Monet copy I did a while back. The original is entitled “Bridge at Argenteuil” Doing this was a great challenge but also a very enlightening process. I learned pretty much what colours he would have used and how he applied the paint in short thick strokes. Colour mixing was fairly straightforward with simple [...]

Learning from the Masters

March 23, 2011 by · Comments Off
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It used to be considered standard practise for artists to learn from the preceding generations of masters. Many famous artists have sat in galleries and copied the works of great artists before them. It is a great learning process to scrutinise the colours and brushstrokes, shapes and forms and try to understand what makes these [...]

Oil painting commissions – Two important lessons

October 26, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Earlier this year an individual commissioned me to do an oil painting. The painting took a few weeks to do but when it was practically finished they decided for whatever reason they did not want to go ahead with the purchase! Lesson learned – Always get a deposit and if possible an agreement in writing [...]

New sunset oil painting

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This is my latest oil painting. Its on a canvas sheet (305mm x 250mm). I started it off by covering it in thick acrylic paint which I applied with a brush; the brush strokes themselves adding to the texture of the ground. Twenty four hours later the arcylic was dry and I was able to [...]

Free image editor

May 13, 2009 by · Comments Off
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These days artists often need to take digital pictures of their work for various purposes, including copyrighting, record keeping or uploading to a website. A common problem can occur after uploading the images to your PC or website – It doesn’t quite look the same. The digital imaging process cannot faithfully reproduce what the human [...]