Category: Still Life
Study on Silver Birches
Sphinx Cat
A Cat with Attitude
A Study on Hands
Fish
This week’s project was as you can see fish or Koi Carp to be exact. This was done in watercolour using the wet on wet technique, salt crystals and cling film to get some wave effect. Continue reading Fish
Guatemalan Art
This week’s art class was painting a subject and stylising it with a native art style. I chose an old glass vase and the patterns from a Guatemalan ornament that my daughter gave me last year. I struggle with still life and this was the second week we had to do it. I did this in watercolour but maybe it would have been easier in acrylic. Either way it wasn’t a subject I found very satisfying. It’s just a demonstration of what can be done. Continue reading Guatemalan Art
Mr Wise – A Owl
I decided to name this ‘Mr Wise – A Owl’ from a clip I saw either from a movie or a TV show some years ago called ‘Phoneshop – Mr Wise (A Owl)’ that my daughter Catherine enjoyed watching. Since this painting is for her I wanted to give it this title. Continue reading Mr Wise – A Owl
A Touch of Summer
I missed last week’s art class which was still life. We had to use an ornament, elderflowers and fruit. I chose to make up my own picture by just painting one object at a time and creating a sort of botanical example of several types of wild flowers. I chose a black mixed media and used watercolour. Continue reading A Touch of Summer
The Cat With The Pearl Earring
There are a lot of unusual and humorous ideas floating about at the moment during lockdown, one of them to re-compose a copy of the old masters. So I thought as my cat is rather an amusing character and I don’t really care for old portraits particularly, that it would be fun to reinvent it by using my cat as the subject with acrylics on acrylic A3 paper. Colours used were Mars Black, Titanium White, Payne’s Gray, Caeruleum Blue, Pthalo Blue, Ultramarine, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow, Raw Umber. Continue reading The Cat With The Pearl Earring
