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Daily Painting: Blue Bottle with Honesty 08-02

February 12, 2016 by Lin Kerr Leave a Comment

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

February 11, 2016 by Lin Kerr Leave a Comment

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 Blue Bottle#1

February 4, 2016 by Lin Kerr Leave a Comment

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...]

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