Snow Shadows

oil on board 8*10
I went out to this place I remembered last year in my travels, These little red huts stuck in the middle of nowhere with numbers on them. I liked the shadows and wanted a have a go at painting them and the Snow, which I knew to be tricky.

Snow Storm

Oil on Board 6*8

Well I got out today and I painted in the snow storm, Yehaa.
While I was driving with my car it was white out conditions partly because my windscreen ( windshield ) iced up on the inside and the side windows too, I was driving like an italian grandma looking through the defrosted section between the steering wheel.

I tried first to get to Fishcreek park but went round in circles, so I decided to go to South Glenmore Park instead. I was going to paint at the side of my van with the door open but the snow kept blowing so I huddled over my steering wheel and painted looking through the front window.

I liked the challenge of this painting , I did learn a couple of things painting it so that's good. See what happens next.

My first Outdoor painting this year. Yehaa

Oil on Board 7*9

At last I got out, I kinda got tired of me making excuses that it is as cold as the north pole outside and that I got tired of doing still life's all the time, so I went outside I could feel the excuse machine start to ramp up in my mind but I quashed it.

I made a plan to goto this place I liked which I knew wasn't too far away anyway, I was all over the place with this painting, but I did like doing it because I said I would and I did. The paint got really cold and sticky so that it got hard to push around the board.

When I got home I went to clean up my mess on my painting box and I looked around for my brushes that I used, I couldn't find them. So I guess I will have to go back and get them where I hopefully left them, Hopefully I didn't put them on the roof, done that before.

Lemon light

Oil on Board 6*6

I tried some natural light today to see if I could get a softer more natural look. I did take it downstairs a few times to look seperate it from my painting space and I was able to tweak a few places to make the image stronger.
I also have to be careful not to outline too much otherwise it will look like a cartoon cutout.

Lime 'n' Lemon

Oil on Board 6*8

I tried this lime on green, I painted an undercoat of orange first then wiped it dry to warm the painting up.

I also have to find a better light set up as this image is a little greyer than the original, the green on the background is a bit more vibrant and the camera can't seem to pick it up.

Three Lemons

Oil on Board 8*10

I ran out of little boards and decided to paint on a bigger board and what a difference it makes there is more to fill. The photo appears a little more purple than it is so it's a little bluer.

Garlic No 1.

Oil on Board 5.5 * 5.5

I tried to paint some garlic today and I didn't want to paint on a white background I wanted to put some atmosphere in. and depth.

I cut this board down as the composition had the garlic falling off the board, so this helped by chopping it. I also saw what I had missed when I took the photo and was able to tweak the painting. I like it more now.

When I had photographed this image I had to do it several times, as I kept getting this problem called flashing in the wall painting trade, if the light hit the painting at an angle you can see the brush strokes very clearly, I must have photographed this image about eight times till I was satisfied with it.

Pomegranate No.2

I wanted to paint the Pomegranate again, I thought I would try a dark background to see if I could pull it off,
I was trying to get it to glow as well. Did I pull it off?

Pomegranate No.1

This Pomegranate has been sitting around for about a week and a half so it was about time I painted it, I tried doing this grey
background and it went o.k.
I'm having a go at more backgrounds to sit the still life I want to try different
angles and see what happens.

Jug and Happy Tomato

Here is my first painting of the year and I had trouble setting up I wiped this painting about 5-6 times till I had at least a satisfactory painting out of it.

I tried a different way of painting too, I didn't draw the painting first to get all my angles and such like down, I just blocked the painting in. It worked so I will try this technique again.

Also after I had painted and asked one of the children what did they think to the painting they said that the tomato had a happy face.

mmm I didn't see that.