Light Painting = Light Blogging.

I'll be taking a short break from blogging about painting, but have primed this canvas ready for the next effort.

Onion and Garlic Still Life - Day Three

Third, and final, day of this still life. What started as a bit of a chore has ended up being an enjoyable couple of evenings painting. Even wiping some oil paint on my shirt sleeve hasn't spoilt it!

Onion and Garlic Still Life - Day Two

I enjoyed this evening's painting. Now don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying it's any good, just that I was having fun and learning stuff. Which is the reason I started painting anyway. One of the things I'm just starting to understand is the difference between painting with a dry or a wet brush and how different the brush strokes are depending on which you use. It's probably in that ladybird book of oil painting somewhere, but for me it was a real discovery.

Onion and Garlic still life

This still life has been a struggle to get started. It's all very loose and sketchy. Lots of false starts, but now, hopefully I've got something that I can build on...I stress the word 'hopefully'!

A Quick Study Of A Satsuma

I've just painted a very quick, and very small, study of a satsuma. Here it is:

portrait - final day

After a couple of days break, I came back to this odd made up portrait. The fella's got moodier as the painting has progressed; almost as if he's got more and more irritable with the painter.

Portrait Day Two

Day two of this made up portrait. Not sure why he looks such a grumpy sod.

fictitional portrait - day 1

Trying my hand at a portrait. This isn't of a real person. It was loosely inspired by an old master picture I found in an art book. I'm still looking for exercises to test and improve my painting. The hope is that in a year's time I'll look back and say wow haven't I improved.