Still life – Fruits in a bowl

Learning to paint fruits is something that just has to be done. Luckily, this one came out fine. I just had  a stamp-size photo in a fat instruction book to go by. It was painful to keep peering into that tiny shot all the time, but it’s come out fine in the end. Yes, the [...]

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Alla prima – coffee & croissants

The Alla-prima method ( all at once, mostly in one sitting) always appealed to me for reasons obvious to a newbie – to get a painting completed in one go. The normal layered approach  is sometimes oh-so-long! I’ve been painting only twice a week at most.  And sometimes there are long breaks for the kids’ [...]

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Framed another one

Brought home my landscape on (22*30) stretched canvas from the framers. They’ve done  a  very neat job of  it,  but I now feel the  frame selection could have been better.  It’s really so difficult to decide which one to choose from the range available. Sometimes the choice is bang on, enhancing the picture, and other times you’re left wondering [...]

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Still life – Blue book on patio floor

This was done early on at home from a project book, with the knife technique and brush for highlighting. Took just a few sittings. I like the colours and the composition here, with the magnifying glass on top of the book. Kind of tells a story… and you can interpret it your own way to [...]

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An entrance in an old city

This was my second painting done in class.  Pictures of interesting doorways attract my attention unfailingly.  Later, when holidaying in Costa Brava, Spain, we walked through an old city very similar to this, leaving me amazed! To think I’d painted it already….. it was too much! I was so excited.

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Still life – flowers in a vase

This is the third painting I did in class. Not easy to paint flowers! Rendition of Flowers in a glass vase    After this picture was taken, I’ve ended up changing the colour of the central flower into a darker one, as this started looking just too light for my liking. I rarely leave a [...]

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More on oil colours

To continue the previous post, here’s a list of the colours that are useful.  A limited palette can  force you to learn mixing well, but might also frustrate you or delay the learning process.  So, it’s quite alright to start with a set of 12 artist-grade colours readily available, and add or minus as you [...]

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COLOURS …….

  Ah, colours…isn’t this why we turn to painting ? Who doesn’t love them. Whether it’s the colours of the rainbow or black and white or the many shades of grey, plus all the other shades that you sometimes cannot put a name to, we artists love ‘em all !! Put down the right colours in [...]

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Yet to put up

I have ten more paintings that I’d like to put up here….just as soon as I get around to it. There are so many things to get done each day, and time just flies. Will do it within a week, for sure.

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Work in progress

I’m working on a 12*16 venice scene with gondolas in the foreground and the street beyond. Impressionist style, with brushstrokes in streaks of colour over a dark base of prussian blue ragged over light ochre. It’s interesting to see how the picture develops from dark to light, with changes seen in every stroke. Doing this [...]

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Oils on canvas finished recently

I love both these paintings – The first  is my rendition of a Timothy Easton oil on canvas.  I saw the picture in a book and decided to go for it. Mostly done with a small round brush and the edge of a flat brush. Size – 14*18.                 [...]

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Hello world!

Welcome to my journey in learning  to paint in oils.  I will be putting up some posts with pics of my paintings shortly. Would love to interact with art lovers, teachers and students alike !

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