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Help fund my oil painting addiction! You can now buy my paintings on etsy. Here's a still life of a pear and an apple.

Red Chilli Pepper with Yellow and Red Tomatoes - Day 3

Third and final day's painting...

Red Hot Chilli Peppers with Tomatoes - Day Two

Managed to steal another hour painting today - here are the result's....

Red Chilli Pepper with Yellow and Red Tomatoes - Day 1

I feel like I haven't painted for ages! Its' so nice to forget about everything for half and hour and just focus on painting. I went for an intentionally off-centre composition.

Orange Day Two

Here's the result of the second evening's painting. I didn't have long, so just added some texture and shading to the oranges, as well as adjusting some of the colour relationships. It's certainly rough and ready, but that's not always a bad thing.

 

Orange Day One

I had another evening free to paint. Hopefully it's obvious, but it's a picture of an orange cut up into segments. I wanted to describe the contrasts between the pulpy flesh of the orange, it's skin and the metallic texture of the knife. Here's the pencil sketch to work out the general composition.

I spent the next hour painting. Here's where I got to at the end of the evening. It's still quite rough and sketchy, but it's a start.

Apple and Pear Day Two

14th May 2011

Lovely morning painting and making stuff with the kiddies. I even managed to finish off my still life painting.