kcp – Artblog

My white philadelphus flower painting “Jasmin des Poètes”  will be on exhibit in Montreal for “Concours-Gala International des Arts visuels Son et Lumière” organized by the “Cercle des Artistes Peintres et Sculpteurs du Québec” (CAPSQ) from October 29th to November 1st – See my website for more details.

Been working on the poinsettia painting this last week. I hope to complete it before Christmas. Here are photos of the first and third painting session of last week (forgot to take a picture of the 2nd session, sorry)

At last, after 2 years on and off on the easel, Jasmin des Poètes was completed on august 14th – Usually I know when a painting is finished but this one had me second guess myself for a few days. My signature was on the canvas but I wasn’t entirely happy; some tiny little things are still bugging me but only I would know ;-) Given that this is my very first attempt at painting flowers, I think I should be proud.

I give myself a couple of weeks away from the easel and then I will continue working on my other still lives; the teapot one and the poinsettia which I’d like to complete before Christmas.

After these two paintings are done. I have other painting projects in mind already but I want to go in a different direction. They’ll still be still lives but not so traditional like these. Anyway, you’ll see :)

I’ll also be starting to give painting lessons (yay!) this September at a near-by community centre (Montreal area people, consult my web site if interested)

Reproductions (Prints and Print on canevas) and Greeting cards of Jasmin des Poètes are available at my Imagekind Gallery.

«Jasmin des Poètes » is almost done. Here are the last 3 painting sessions (from top to bottom) of July 3^rd, July 4th and July 18:

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.