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Recent Commission

January 6, 2012 by · Comments Off
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This is a recent commission I did just before the Christmas hols. Its 16 x 12 inches on box canvas with the sides painted. I used a limited palette consisting of : Titanium White, cadmium yellow pale, cadmium orange, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue.     You may also like:Oil Painting Commission by Louise DriverSeascape [...]

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 [...]

How to commission an oil painting with Driver Art

November 4, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Artists usually specialise in different areas. In our case this is landscapes, seascapes and still life oil paintings. We occasionally work in acrylics and sometimes do abstract work, however, animal, people and portrait paintings are currently not part of our repertoire. When first thinking  about commissioning a painting think about the canvas and whether you [...]

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 [...]

Affordable Contemporary Oil Paintings

September 29, 2010 by · Comments Off
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At Driver Art our aim is to produce quality contemporary paintings at an affordable price. Typically if you go to an established gallery you can pay a £1000+ for the most of the paintings there. We believe more people would be interested in buying art if it were more affordable. We manage to keep the [...]

Buying contemporary art online

February 17, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Buying contemporary art today can seem a bit daunting. Many websites have sprung up, including ours  of individual artists as well as on-line galleries that showcase many artists. The internet has given artists the chance to show off their works to the world. No longer do artists have to compete with the elite to purchase [...]

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 [...]