This is one of a series of daily paintings in oils and I hope you enjoy this project. These will soon be available on a Silent Auction on my website This title amuses me because it feels as though I painted it with Integrity (honesty)! I had seen Honesty in people's homes in arrangements and in gardens when it was green, but I never knew much more than that. (I've never seen it in South Africa.) Anyway I visited my friend Maggie and she had a whole lot that was dried and she showed me how to … [Read more...]
Blue Jar 05-02
This is one of a series of daily paintings in oils and I hope you enjoy this project. These will soon be available on a Silent Auction on my website and a nugget: This is an added extra to the daily painting – a technique, background information or a story. The Gestalt Effect Gestalt means "whole" and in art it is used where the mind fills in the detail and makes a whole image out of images that are partly suggested. We know what glass looks like, so if the blue bottles' reflections are … [Read more...]
Daily Painting – Physalis 05-02
This is one of a series of daily paintings in oils and I hope you enjoy this project. You can now own an original oil painting or give a special gift at an affordable price. You'll notice that as I paint these they'll be available at The Slice of Lime Shop on my website. And it just gets better - you can bid for it in a 'silent auction'. The silent auction will go live in a few day's time, thanks to my wonderful web-designer. Alice is a star! I think that my new venture is exciting. I'd … [Read more...]
Daily Painting – White Bowls#1
This is one of a series of daily paintings in oils and I hope you enjoy this project. You can purchase it here and own an original oil painting or give a special gift at an affordable price. and a nugget: This is an added extra to the daily painting – a technique, background information or a story. See my little illuminated set-up! These little flexible reading lights are from IKEA and you can clip them on and position them. Iluminating the subject increases the tonal contrasts and of … [Read more...]
Daily Painting Blue Bottle#1
I have begun a series of daily paintings in oils and I hope you enjoy this new project of mine. These paintings will be for sale but at the moment we are still developing the website. I am hoping to launch this series on Leap Year – the 29th February. These means that you will be able to give a friend an original oil painting as a special gift at an affordable price. An old bottle is often a bit foggy without the sparkle of bright polished glass. This is a very old bottle complete with its … [Read more...]