I’m trying my hand at a new still life this week, three fennel bulbs on a stone shelf.I’ve been looking at the work of Henk Helmantel and Andrew Hemingway, who are both masters of the genre and I fancied seeing if I could get anywhere close to what they can achieve…clearly I’m feeling overly cocky today :)…
I’ve been pushing the watercolours in an abstract direction, so fancied trying something ultra realistic for a change of pace and also wanted to play around with the oils again before getting back to the Jack in the Bath portrait…and I can’t help noticing that realistic still life work is… a: popular in galleries and b: fetches pretty good prices…So worth some further experiments I think…
Anyway we’ll see how it progresses…as you can see I have Frida watching over me in the studio…what an inspiring woman, I’m hoping some of her drive and determination will rub off on me…and it gives me someone to talk to while I’m painting :)
4 comments:
I notice that the Diego Rivera finger puppet has gone missing :-)
he's hiding behind the camera...:)
I like the colours you are using. Is this potentially to sell...or is it an exercise for your right hand to get back into oils? :-)
it's a little of all of the above...:)
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