Still Life with Squash, Oil on Linen, 28″ x 30″
Winter Geraniums, Oil on Panel, 20″ x 24″
Tag: still life
Pear Still Life
I’m moving inside, thinking about still life and figurative work now that the weather is too cold for landscape painting.
Still Life
Quiet study, I could have worked on it for longer but had to move things for other studio activities, so another painting ends without being a masterpiece. Such is life. 🙂 I like it anyway, but, you know, I’d like it more if it were better.
I did work on it long enough to tilt all the grays so the painting seems colorful.
Eggs and Oak Leaves
Last painting of 2014.
I have not shown a lot of new work on my blog this past year, I have been working super hard though, I’m 65% (give or take) of the way finished with a larger project that has taken me MONTHS and MONTHS. I have a deadline of March First Friday to more or less complete the work, so stay tuned!
I’ve also been painting a portrait of my daughter that is taking a long time as well.
Skull and Tea
Smithfields has another painting to replace the Rabbit that found a good home. I painted this one on a high shelf while I was sitting down and it is hanging above the vegetable piece (like so) and the perspective kind of works together in the room. Not quite trompe-l’oeil but sort of tromp-l’oeil inspired.
Grayscale Flowers
Oil on Panel
12 x 16
Oil on Panel
12 x 12 inches
New work – just varnished it today. I used Van Dyck Brown and Cremnitz white for these paintings and may I just say what a delicious combo that is (not literally – cremnitz is lead and that is poison).
Julian Bell and Sarah F Burns at APU
Our show opens Feb 7. I will have to miss the opening cause I’m heading to San Francisco for a anatomy workshop (involving cadavers!) at BACAA.
More Flowers for February Show
Albertons floral section here we come – I’m pumping out the floral paintings for my two person show at Ashland Painters Union. I thought I was going to do a floral show last September and use natural garden and field flowers, but it’s hot house instead. I do love carnations, so I’m going to pick some more up today for the next one. Maybe it will be ALL carnations. Anyway. Here’s this one:
(Disclaimer – I took this photo before varnishing this piece, yes it is sort of blotchy in the background and table, but not this bad. I’ll reshoot after I can varnish it.)
Vegetables
This is not a new piece, it was painted in 2012, but never photographed. Yet another Smithfields painting. Vegetables are important too and believe it or not, Smithfields does have vegetarian options. Vegans can just forget it though.
Water
My latest piece for Smithfields. My working title is Water. Titles -eh. They’re hard. They either very robotic for me, or very silly and embarrassing. I am not a writer.
I was playing with echoes in this piece – the male figure and the crab both have bent knees, orange color. The woman has a mermaid tattoo (hard to make out), the baby and the fish have their mouths open. The baby and the fish recently came out of the water.
