"Meadow Blooms"
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"Field of Flowers"
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I'm reading Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color by Kevin D. Macpherson. He suggests limiting your palette to Cadmium Yellow Pale, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Winsor Green and Titanium White. That's what I used for this painting with the addition of a little Cerulean Blue and no Winsor Green (I didn't have any).

I've also been doing some of the color mixing exercises he suggests. I thought using so much white would make the colors washed out but it was a really useful exercise. I sometimes have a tendency to use too much saturated color with out any grayer tones to make any one color stand out. These show varying mixtures of Cadmium Yellow Pale, Alizarin Crimson and Ultramarine Blue. Each combination was reduced with white five times making lighter and lighter variations of the original mixture.

"Seeing Spots"

What was I thinking when I set up this still life? Elipses are challenging to paint. Printed fabric can be tricky too. So putting 2 cups (lots of elipses) on a printed fabric is crazy!

Available: $85+ $10 shipping. Or send me an e-mail.

"Red Pears on Blue Plate"
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Sigh. I really wish I was better at this whole naming business. That's about as boring as a title as you can get huh? This isn't the best photo. Every time I try to photograph a big block of red it tends to kind of blob together. I have a hard time getting the color variations.

I've been wanting to try painting landscapes for some time but I've been up against the same old fear I generally have about trying something completely new. I found a nice photo in the wetcanvas image library that I edited quite a bit in Photoshop. I need to just try it. Even if it looks horrible, I'm sure I'll learn something and it's only one painting right?

"Red Pears"

Little bit bigger canvas on this one - 8"x8".

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