Simple Beauties 12"x12" oil on canvas

Click here to place a bid on this painting!

Well what can I say, flowers are good medicine.  I just enjoy painting pansies so much I was in no rush to complete this painting.  Each one seems to have a personality of it's own.  I guess I have a overly active imagination, but that's alright it comes in handy when your an artist!  However, I will never be able to watch scary movies or swim across the Atlantic because of that fact.  Oh, well..

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

Perspective

Place bid on painting here.

Painted these tulips from the setup see the picture below.  I am so inspired by the motion in this arrangement!  I had fun and tried to keep it loose.  

Pears & Daisies

click to bid

So as you can see here is the setup and above is the painting! Unfortunately already wilting! Looking the way I feel today! Any how keep painting no matter how you feel!! Life is always full of surprises. Take care, thanks for taking a peek at my blog.

Painting progress stage 2

 

Hi again!  In this stage I try to really work on painting in the midtones.  I give my self a visual aid by set a spot of really white paint on the table cloth.  And a bit of the darkest dark on the wine bottle.  It just helps your eye gage the value or tones better.   Because there are so many different colors it takes a bit more stepping back to see what you are doing as you paint.  I'll post more on this painting soon!  Thanks for watching!

Feel free to ask me any questions you may have!   Have a good Sunday.

Step by Step: still life with fruit

Good morning or afternoon, so what I will do in this post is show you how I go about painting a still life.  First step is the blocking in, where I quickly decide where everything is going to go on the canvas.  It saves me major corrections later because I already can see what it will look like!  I have to be patient here which is hard!  I will tweak the composition here and there quickly before moving on.

That's it for now, I'll post the next step later.