I have always felt that a still-life needs to exude a sense of presence - or stillness - and beauty. When I pick up a beautiful bowl I want to caress it and enjoy its texture and shape. it is an object that is sensual. this is what I woudl like to convy in my large still-life paintings. For this reason, I chose vases and decided to show them as if they are museum exhibits. The background is birchply with a thin wash of white oils and it is carved to create texture and flatten the … [Read more...]
‘Vase on lacecloth’ is complete!
This is my second large vase and it has been a challenge to say the least. I was quite happily painting the cloth when I realised that because it's a grid, all the lines on the flat surface of the table needed to be in perspective and recede to a vanishing point, so there was some rubbing out of wet paint and overpainting of dry paint to do. … [Read more...]