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Gnomicon 142
If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon 142 Friday 28 September 2012 Read gnomica 1-100 here! 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 … Continue reading
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Tagged art, ’changes in art tastes’, ’Paul Gauguin’, ’still life’, portraiture
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Just Onions
Here is some more stuff in the same vein as what I offered in yesterday’s little piece – just onions.
Hanging cherries
This little effort at a still life was a very early one – and it shows! There are lots of things wrong here, both compositionally and in execution, but I do recall being quite taken with the result: of course; … Continue reading
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Tagged 'hanging cherries', art, ‘oil painting’, ’still life’, cherries, creamer, pitcher
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Table scene: cherries, pitcher, bowl, lemon peel
No, it’s not a Dutch masterpiece in the seventeenth century style, but this little still life did give me great pleasure for the simple reason that, after many tries, it taught me how to paint white. That may seem a … Continue reading
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Tagged 'lemon peel', ’painting white’, ’still life’, ’table scene’, bowl, cherries, pitcher, tablecloth
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Vanitas: bread-grapes-pear-bottle
This time, rather than just posting a painting, I want to talk a bit about it. This one here is probably the third or fourth version of what I had started out to paint: a simple still life. I have … Continue reading
Still life: Apple – Bread – Glass
Although I wish I were a superb draftsman (like, say, a Rembrandt or an Ingres or a Neal Adams – yeah, you wish!), even when you do your oils from photographic materials, you still really do need to know how … Continue reading
Posted in ART, OBITER PICTA
Tagged apple, ‘pencil drawing’, ’still life’, bread, draftsmanship, glass
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