Tuesday 22 November 2011

Peppers study at the Bath Artists Studios

A few weeks ago I went painting with the Bath Painting Group at the Bath Artists Studio for a still life session. It was fun and relaxed and I did two small paintings on the day:


Red Pepper   10"x8"  oil on board

Here is the group, well focused:


I always choose an easel as close as possible to the set up to get most of the colours and values right, specially when it's a small still life like this.


My palette is always messier when I paint from life as there is that feeling to try to capture things quickly and spontaneously. It does look like the paints had a fight here and it all ended up in a blood bath - don't you think:



After an hour or so working on the first painting I moved on to the next pepper-model who was posing like a star to get some attention. I don't recall ever doing yellow still life before (for some reasons I tend to do mainly white, green and reds) so this was a good exercise and lot of fun too.

Yellow Pepper   7"x10"  oil on board

You can see my ridiculously minimal sketch above the painting - I just wanted to get started with the paint really:

5 comments:

  1. I did not recognize the pepper as your work. I'm not used to seeing you paint still lifes but well done. I was curious about all your brushes. Do you paint with that many? If so good for you. I should use more. Usually I only use a couple, even though I know I should use more.

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  2. Thanks Antonio and Douglas. I do paint with quite a few brushes, usually around 4 sizes (small ones for details, big ones for skies and background) and one set for light colours and one for dark (so around 8 brushes in total). I like to have enough as I don't tend to clean my brushes as I paint.

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