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How to set up (and light) a Still Life

January 23, 2021 By: Paul3 Comments

Setting up a still life properly can make the difference between your painting working out or being a disaster. You know the feeling when you’re half way through a painting and it isn’t working out? Maybe it’s not the values, drawing or the colour – very likely it’s just that the set up was put

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Yellow Roses, and a secret only my journal knew until today

July 29, 2020 By: Paul4 Comments

Every morning, before anyone else in the house is awake, I sit in the kitchen and write in my journal.

It’s a quiet space I set aside for thinking, planning my day, encouraging myself, occasionally berating myself.

Sometimes, just to write with no plan for what might come out.

One day near the start of this year, I wrote a sentence that frightened me a little:

“This year I will become an excellent flower painter.”

What you might not know about selling your work online

January 17, 2019 By: Paul30 Comments

It seems like the dream to a lot of people.

You just paint what you want and sell it directly on your site. No galleries taking 50% of your work. No-one telling you what to paint.

Nice and simple.

But there are a few things you might not realise when you start out – or even before you’ve started setting it up – that you need to think about.

Hi, I’m Paul

I'm a (mostly) self-taught artist. I paint realism in oils, mostly still life. I share my work, my evolving process and what knowledge I've gained on my own learning journey here, in the hope that it might help you on yours.
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