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Still Life with Old Silver

December 16, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Oil on Panel 6″ X 6″ This is another limited palette study, this time using burnt sienna and ultramarine for the background and cloth, and raw sienna and ultramarine for the silver. The particular white cloth I used (a napkin from our wedding last august) had a definite bluish cast. The silver had a warmer,

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Still Life with Duck Egg

December 12, 2006 By: Paulcomment

12th December 2006 A bit of a departure, this one. Firstly, it’s quite big for me, almost the size of a proper painting.Secondly, it’s got more than three colours in it. This one is a reprise of the originalduck egg still life tonal painting in rawumber and white, but with a few bits and bobs

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Still Life Study with Glass of Water

November 29, 2006 By: Paul1 Comment

  29th November 2006 Oil on Panel 6″ X 5.5″ This is the last of the tonal studies for November, and also the last (for the time being at least)in burnt sienna and ultramarine. I’m starting December with a brand new palette: raw sienna andultramarine. Now don’t get too exited, I know it’s a big

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Still Life Study with Teaspoon, Chinese Bowl and Shell, A Limited Palette Study

November 26, 2006 By: Paulcomment

   26th November 2006 Oil on Panel 6″ X 6″ This is a part of my limited palette series, a series of still life studies painted with only two colours and white. This one was painted with only french ultramarine, burnt sienna and flake white. I think I’m starting to hit my stride with this

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Onion Study

November 25, 2006 By: Paulcomment

25th November 2006 Oil on Panel 7″ X 5″ This is the fourth in the series of ulramarine blue/burnt sienna studies. I used the burnt sienna moreas a local colour in this one, since it’s a pretty good match for the colour of an onion. Althoughthe cloth that the onion is sitting on is grey,

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Coffee Pot Study

November 23, 2006 By: Paul1 Comment

  23rd November 2006 Oil on Panel 7″ X 5″ Continuing the series of ulramarine blue/burnt sienna studies, in this one I wanted to get a way fromthe more unmixed sienna of thehanging garlicpainting, and explore the greys available from amix of the two colours with flake white. Ultramarine and burnt sienna make a very

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Still Life with Hanging Garlic

November 21, 2006 By: Paulcomment

21st November 2006 This is the more finished and larger study of the garlic bulbs, for which thesmall study was donethe day before. It’s the second painting done with only three colours – burnt sienna, ultramarineblue and flake white. That might seem a bit limited, but after seven paintings done in just raw umberand white,

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Study for Hanging Garlic

November 19, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Oil on Panel 7″ X 5″ This was just a quick one, and is the first of the tonal studies in burnt sienna and ultramarine(and flake white of course). Being as the painting that this study was for, theHanging Garlic still life, wasquite a large one for me, and since this was also the first

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Tonal Still Life with Duck Egg

November 15, 2006 By: Paulcomment

15th November 2006 After six small tonal studies, I thought it might be an idea to try something bigger.All the studies so far have been done in a single sitting, this one was doneover three days and represents about 16 hours work. I wanted to see what would happen if I tried to take one

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Japanese Cup and Teaspoon, A Still Life Value Study

November 11, 2006 By: Paulcomment

11th November 2006 Oil on Panel 7″ X 5″ All these tonal studies have been derived from the series ofstill life drawings inone way or another. This one is a composite of two of the drawings,the cup, teaspoon and shelland theglass and teaspoon. I’ve taken the backlighting from the glass and teaspoon drawing. There’s something

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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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