Category Archives: painting
use bigger brushes
For the first time with oil paint, I feel like this is more how I painted with acrylics. I told myself to use bigger brushes, don’t be chintzy with the […]
almost done
I just don’t like the little pine on the far lower left, a bit too zippy. I’ll either paint it out or fix it next time and then I think […]
this week
still re-working this
painting day
Blueberry leaves 44 x 60″ oil on unstretched canvas (the current version) and another colour study, the colour palette is from a photo of the forest floor, with a pine […]
painting day
still having lots of fun with colour studies and learning. And I think I finally figured out how to work on the large blueberry leaves painting. The burnt sienna is […]
more colour
another two colour studies, one uses the palette of my photo of wild strawberry plants on the forest floor and the other uses the palette of a wild rose bush […]
more colour studies (and details)
another colour study
following the colour palette of a painting by Canadian painter JEH MacDonald.
reworking an old painting again
I don’t think it’s done but it’s a lot better than when I started today. and I changed the Blueberries painting a bit. The leaves are more greenish and have […]
another colour study
The colour study is based on my photo of bright red fall blueberry leaves on reindeer lichen. I changed my blueberry painting, the blue leaves are now more bluegreen. Not […]
