Daily painting #157

Blue bowl with Plums

5 x 7 inch oil on canvas board

SOLD

Another new item to my daily paintings, I have been thinking about painting this bowl for a while, but I was always put off a bit by the size of it, since changing the composition, and painting larger items recently I am glad I finally got to use it. The bowl is glazed terracotta and the blue glaze is quite reflective, its quite a challenge to paint reflections on coloured items, but it was fun to paint. 

Daily painting #156

Granny Smith with silver

7 x 5 inch oil

SOLD

Here is another one with the silver goblet, this time with a granny smith apple.

Blush Pear

Blush Pear

15 x 15 cm Oil

SOLD

Here is my first painting done with my new W&N Artists oils. I am getting used to using them now, it was such a change at first, the colours are a lot more intense and the consistency is slightly different to the Griffin range, the biggest change for me was the drying time.

Daily painting #155

Pomegranate with Pewter

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

This was yesterdays painting, due to problems with Auctiva, the ebay listing site I use, I could not list it last night.

I know I keep on mentioning new paintings with my new paints, but I will be listing the first one in the next few days,  I have been waiting to see how they looked when dry, I will be varnishing the first few tomorrow.

Daily painting #154

Red Delicious with Silver goblet

7 x 5 inch oil

SOLD

This is the second painting to feature this goblet that my uncle Roger made years ago. I only use french Ultramarine, burnt sienna and white to mix all the silvery grey, I find these colours great for mixing different tones of metal

Daily painting #153

Cherries with blue glass bottle

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

I've had a very frustrating couple of days! my Internet connection started playing up Sunday afternoon and by Sunday night it was off totally, it was back on this afternoon.

This painting was done yesterday, I am sort of getting used to painting larger items in small paintings.

I am still playing around with my new artist oils, I have decided to only post them on here and on eBay once they are dry and ready to be sold. there are some pics of my new paintings on my Facebook page.

Daily painting #152

Mandarin orange & blue bottle

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

This is my first daily painting to feature some glass in it, the blue is great with the orange. I am finding lots of new larger items to paint, it has been quite a change only painting parts of items alongside the fruit, but it gives me many more options than just sticking to items that fit in.

This is also the first mandarin, very like a clementine with the leaves, only a lot rounder and the leaves are quite small.

Daily painting #151

Comice pear with silver goblet

7 x 5 inch oil

SOLD

A bit of a change in composition again for me today, I decided to paint the pear quite large, I usually leave quite a space around the edges, but I think this works well also.

The Silver goblet was made by my uncle Roger.

Daily painting #150

Clementine with pewter

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

I used the pewter tankard again today, the composition of these last three paintings has been quite different for me, I usually have the whole of an object in the painting, I have been running out of smaller items so it will be good to paint more like this.

Daily painting #149

Pear with Pewter

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

I enjoyed painting the pewter tankard yesterday, so I used it again today. I switched around the lighting for this one so there was more of a reflection from the pear.

Daily painting #148

Red Delicious with Pewter

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

I have painted a few red apples before, but this is my first Red Delicious. The pewter tankard holds a pint, but sadly it was empty!

Daily painting #147

Blush Pear with cherry

7 x 5 inch oil

SOLD

Another blush pear for today, this time with a cherry.

Daily painting #146

Two Blush Pears

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

These two blush pears were quite small, so they fitted nicely in todays painting.

I've had a busy few days painting with my new oils, all my daily paintings as well as todays, so far have been painted with Winsor & Newton Griffin Alkyd oils, I am now using W&N Artist oils. They are quite different to paint with, much creamier, I will post pics soon, I am now having to work out drying times.

Daily painting #145

Lone Lemon

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

Just a Lemon for today.

Glass Marbles

Glass Marbles

20 x 20 cm Oil on canvas board

I finished this one today, it has taken a couple of hours a day over 6 days to complete, I am quite happy with how it has turned out, its the first time I have painted a lot of marbles together and I am looking forward to paint some more.

Daily painting #144

Braeburn Apple

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

Just an Apple for today, I am quite enjoying painting single fruits at the moment, partly due to not having a fantastic choice to buy nice fruit at this time of year in the small town where I live.

 I have a larger painting of marbles on the go as well so that has been taking up a lot of my painting time, I am hoping to finish it tomorrow, so pics will be up soon.

Daily painting #143

Clementine on cloth

7 x 5 inch oil

SOLD

Clementines seem to be quite popular at the moment, so here is another one.

I have spent the rest of today priming more canvas boards, I have some tiny new ones, they are just 5cm square, so they should be fun to paint.

Daily painting #142

Conference Pear

7 x 5 inch oil

SOLD

I thought I would just paint this pear on its own today, I sometimes like to just keep it simple, this pear was so much taller than the others it stood out on its own.

Daily painting #141

Pomegranate and Lemon

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

Two of my favourite fruits to paint for today, I thought I had painted these two together before, but looking back over my pictures I found I hadn't.

I have also listed another 3 small paintings on ebay tonight, A Lemon and two single Cherries.

Daily painting #140

Blush Pear

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

I lowered my still life stack down for this one, I usually have it quite high up so the fruit is almost at eye level to me, but I liked the shape of the shadow that the pear made so to see more of it, it came down a box or two.

I missed posting last night as my Internet connection was down, I have another two small buy it now paintings available on ebay, one is a Pear and one a Clementine both are with a free display easel, but they are also suitable for framing, I always make sure to leave enough space around the edges.

Daily painting #139

Clementine with Cherry

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

I had to paint a clementine again today, I love the colour of them. The leaves have started to shrivel up a bit now, but they have curled into nice shapes. I will have some small 10cm sq. Clementine paintings available in the next few days.

Daily painting #138

Strawberry with Blueberries

7 x 5 inch Oil

SOLD

A strawberry with a few blueberries for today, I don't do that many daily paintings in portrait so this was a nice change.

I spent the rest of the day priming and sanding canvas boards as I was getting a bit low on them, I have also been playing around with the pool balls and my new box of marbles!

Daily painting #137

Pair of Pears

5 x 7 inch Oil

SOLD

A pair of pears for today, I have so much fruit at the moment it was a job to decide what to paint today. My stack of boxes and books with a board on top was stacked high for this one as I liked the stalk hanging over the edge.

8 Ball

8 Ball

15 x 15 cm Oil on canvas board
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Here is the second of my pool ball paintings, as this one is a bit larger than the first one, I took quite a while longer to paint it in more detail, and getting the tone of the white spot took a lot of squinting! the main lighting was from the window, it was quite a bright day for a change, but the white also picked up the green of the cloth and a yellow tinge from the ceiling light. I used burnt sienna and ultramarine for the grey tones with a touch of the green mix from the cloth and yellow ochre. I am very happy with how it has turned out and am looking forward to the next ball!

Daily painting #136

Clementine

5 x 7 inch oil on canvas board

SOLD

I had this great Clementine for today's painting. I bought five of them as they had the leaves on them, but I thought this one looked great on its own.

I am quite glad I had to go to the dentist yesterday, its in a different town to where I live and the supermarket is bigger and has more variety of fruit and veg, so I was very happy to find these Clementines.

Daily painting #135

Strawberry with Silver cup

5 x 7 inch oil

SOLD

This is my first daily painting of 2012! I bought the little silver cup off ebay last year, but this is the first time I have painted it I think.

I have found it very hard to get back into a routine of painting after Christmas, hopefully I shall be back on form from now on. I got some lovely looking fruit today, but I am also enjoying painting my new shiny pool balls and a few other things will be coming up this year.

Back to work!

I know it's a bit late, but Happy New Year! I had not intended to take such a long break from the daily paintings, things just kept cropping up and I have been working on some new and quite different works for me. Here is one I have just finished.



10 Ball

10 x 10cm Oil on canvas board
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I will be posting my latest daily fruity painting #135 later on tonight.

Daily paintings update

I am sorry I have missed the last week of daily paintings, I spent most of the week in bed feeling rotten! coughing and shivering and aching all over.

Felling a bit better now. I am taking the next week, and over Christmas to catch up on some other works, and I will get back to the daily's after Christmas.

My small 10cm square paintings with Free easels are still available on ebay.

Daily painting #134

Pomegranate on cloth

5 x 7 inch oil

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I just managed to get this one done today.

Daily painting #133

Pomegranate & Clementine

5 x 7 inch oil

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I thought this Pomegranate and Clementine would look good together, the colours worked well and the clementine skin picked up a bit of red reflection from the Pom.

I usually google  my fruit combinations to see what comes up, so following on from my last posts Christmas theme  I found a Christmas party drink called Pomegranate crush. you can see the recipe here.