Blooming Huge Blue Glass Still Life: a Smudge

This is a minor piece of repair work. I do not want to put more than one more coat on the background. Ideally, I will put no more on. However, I let a brush stroke feather out too far, and

Blooming Huge Blue Glass Still Life: Day 5

I worked pretty hard on moulding cloth today. Now I just have to tweak the forms here and there, and get the colours right, which is the second stage. I am mulling a post on sea-scapes, waves, and fabric. I

Blooming Huge Blue Glass Still Life: Day 4

Today was my first day of painting, as opposed to planning where to paint by putting marks on the canvas. I started off with two pure colours, which is very rare. I tend to have a selection for mixing, and

Blooming Huge Blue Glass Still Life: Day 1a

Day 1 of a still life begins for me with an idea of what to paint. In this case, I had had the idea of a long fall of blue glass for some time. In fact, I have already completed

Still Life of Blue Glass

I have a still life in mind, and a canvas prepared for it. Forty by thirty inches is a lot of material to cover with paint. I need to buy more paint.

Still Life: Mask and Greasepaint

The time I recently spent in the studio with a young artist was punctuated by the studio’s opening throes, and the odd bit of DIY. However, I did my own painting as well.