Posts Tagged ‘oranges’

Oil Painting – Three Oranges

June 14, 2011 by · Comments Off
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Still life oil painting of three oranges. Box canvas 12 x 16 inches with sides painted. I started with a green-toned canvas which gives this a slightly cool feel as I let some of the colour come through in the background here and there. I have tried to keep more colour than usual in the [...]

Oil Painting of an Orange

December 9, 2010 by · Comments Off
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I have just completed this oil painting of an orange. I have tried a different sort of composition by having 4 objects evenly spaced apart. However to my mind it doesn’t quite work and would have looked better with 3 objects to give a more traditional triangle composition. Or may have looked better with some [...]

New Oil Painting – Clementines

October 18, 2010 by · Comments Off
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I have completed a new still life oil painting of two larger than life clementines continuing the theme of slightly humorous fruit. Its on a 16 x 12 box canvas with the sides painted and can be hung as-is. It costs £99 with free shipping to the UK. See FAQ for details and how to [...]

Complementary Orange?

September 17, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Ok, so this is a different kind of painting for me. For starters it’s acrylic rather than oil. The techniques involved are decidedly different. You have to work rapidly and boldly due to the quick drying times of the acrylic paints. This is something I am not accustomed to, preferring to take my time mixing [...]

Orange and Bananas Oil Painting

September 7, 2010 by · Comments Off
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This is an example of a painting that went wrong and sat on a shelf for a few months. I recently salvaged it from the brink of the bin and the finished result is not too bad. What happened is I didn’t plan it out too well in the initial stages and had a jug in [...]