Work in progress…
I been quite busy lately, among other I been working as a security agent at some outdoor Art Festival (No joke. The pay was better working for the security than to participate as an artist so… what can I say?) Despite that, my paintings have been advancing pretty well. While I’m in the process of writing another “Making of a Still Life” article, I thought I’d show you where I’m at.
I been spending more time on “Jasmin des Poètes” (the white Philadelphus flowers) – That one has given me quite a lot of trouble lately; the bottom left flower especially – I removed the paint to start over three times because I wasn’t satisfied with the outcome, but now I think I’m heading the right way. There is still some shade missing on one of that flower’s top petals but I’m going to do that with glazing instead.
The 15 x 30 teapot still life is at a more advanced stage than the article I’m writing about it – I’m using a slightly different approach than what I’m used to mostly due to the size of the painting – Instead of working from the background up to the foreground, I been working wet-on-wet on the left, the right and the middle areas alternatively, roughly setting the colours at first with very thin layers of paint and then re-adjusting/matching the colours as I go.
