Paintings with Passion
A new year, new challenges, How will you challenge yourself? I have decided to try and improve my still life paintings. They require all the skills of observation, working from life, checking the angles, proportions, tonal values etc. In the past, I was rarely happy with my still life paintings, I always felt it was […]
A new year, new challenges, How will you challenge yourself? Read More »
People who know me say that I only paint flowers when it is raining outside, and mostly they are correct. Painting spring flowers, Here are some daffodils for you in an antique blue and white jug, sitting on some turquoise silk cloth. Also I’ve painted some white roses in a glass jar. Flowers have incredibly
Painting Spring Flowers, how I do it, Read More »
Still life painting is an excellent way of using all my skills of observation, when it is too cold to venture outside to paint! Still life painting in cold weather. My friends and I meet up in each other’s studios where we set up still life subjects. We also paint each other, for a change,
Still life and cold weather creativity! Read More »
Autumn for Artists. So now it’s getting colder but there are always lovely warmish days in between the cold ones, so I’m off out at every opportunity to capture those Autumn Colours! It’s time to seek out your thermal wear, ski clothing, on those chilly days when out painting. You will also need your cadmium orange and
News from the Studio – What do Artists do in Autumn? Read More »
For a long time, I did! I just thought it was old fashioned and not for me. How wrong could I have been? Ask yourself, What does a warm weather ‘plein air painter’ do in winter? When it is too cold to work out of doors, of course I retreat to the studio and work
Who thought Still Life was dead? I thought it was “So Last Century” Read More »