Sometimes the original plan for a painting doesn’t work out. For instance, on this painting there was a chunk of onion skin on the right hand side. I was a little over half done with it before I realized that the source of my dissatisfaction with the painting had everything to do with that…
Category: Still Life
Sulfurous Orb Yellow Onion #2
This, the second onion, makes me think of a planet. I’m not sure exactly what about it makes me think that, but it’s just very out of this world. This little guy was a breeze to paint and I finished it durning a recent painting spree. During the spree I painted over 10 hours…
The Humble Yellow Onion
It has been a while since I’ve painted onions. If you’ve been following me this year, you’ll remember the Red Onion Trio I finished back in February. I think onions are really fun to paint and I use them in nearly everything I cook so they’re always in the house. It can be a…
Orange you Glad? The Complete Orange Trio
This orange went by pretty quickly. As it usually is the case when I struggle with one painting, the next one is a breeze. I like to think I learned something in the struggle which is why the next one is almost always easy. The oranges all look good, but the final…
Orange is the New Black
Sometimes I get lazy when I paint. I try to capture an object with the simplest shapes/paint strokes possible but it rarely works out for me. This week’s laziness was focused on the texture of the orange. I just kept soothing everything out when it really needed anything but. After a while of struggling with…
Orange Crushing with a New Color
What you think and what is are not always the same. I started mixing up light oranges to paint this orange, and very quickly realized that this orange isn’t orange. Then I started mixing a yellow with only the slightest hint of orange and got closer. Cadmium Yellow, the only yellow on my palette, wasn’t quite…
The Complete Carrot Trio
The layers on this carrot! I had a hard time with this one. I don’t think I’ve been spending enough time painting lately between being sick and busy with other things. Unfortunately, I lose my groove when I don’t paint often enough. I painted this carrot over and over and over. The…
Knocking out the Carrots
This painting was pretty difficult to get done this week. I was down and out with some pretty severe sinus pressure all week that prevented me from painting as much as I would like. I’m really happy with how it turned out despite getting a little darker than I originally planned. Only one more carrot…
Just a Carrot Still Life
Don’t let my Instagram feed fool you, I painted this very quickly. There was just a lot of time between each session and a lot of reluctance to sit down to work on it.
Apple Still Life Mini Series Finished
My apple mini series is complete! I’m probably quite a few apples shy of a bushel, but I like the idea of calling them a bushel. This series flew by and I really enjoyed painting them, but I’m glad to be done with apples for the time being. There are only so many ways a…
Eighth Apple Still Life – Bushel of Fun
I’m in the apple home stretch! Only one more apple still life left and the mini series will be complete. Not only that, but the walls in my studio are filling up. I’ve never filled up my walls before so I’m actually really proud of myself for being so productive. I’m working on making…
Seventh Apple Still Life – How You Like Them Apples
It was fun to break up a round object like this. I just knocked over the stacked apple from the last painting and I love, love how it turned out. The painting itself seemed to fly by. I sat down to work on it and couldn’t for the life of me figure out what it…