My experiment of trying to use my round pointed portrait brushes as my main paint brushes for still lifes was really interesting. I disliked it! My pallet and tools for still lifes and landscapes has become completely different from my pallet and brushes for portraits (or the other way around). So last week I set …
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I wanted to do a much closer up painting of the same yellow flowers from yesterday. And I wanted the background to be sort of a chaotic party of paint, the way flowering bushes seem when you’re up close. What do you think? Here it is modeling in our kitchen. Available.
Maybe it’s because hide and seek is a favorite past time around our house, but that little horned owl egg timer looks like he’s thinking “you can’t see me, you can’t see me.” http://jessiesfineart.com/product-category/april-madness/ I’m starting to feel the still life love again. What do you think?
“Window II,” 8″ x 6″, oil on wood, Heath brought me a big bouquet a couple days ago, just to be nice! Here they are in a square glass vase, sitting in my window above a red apple. Info about the paintings in the “A Painting A Day” project: Each day I paint, but about every other …
Apples / 6×6 in / oil on wood / Available through Randy Higbee Gallery, 6 Inch Squared Show See available still life paintings here: http://jessiesfineart.com/flowers.html I really like the colors in this painting. I’m going through updating links, and I looked at this painting again. It’s one of my favorites. I painted this in the …