My first large vase painting is complete! This oil painting has been such fun and I'm feeling really exhilerated because it is the first large oil painting I have done in many, many years. I carved the background to give it a textured but 2-D feel, and put metallic aluminium onto the stem of the vase. You can see photos of that stage in my previous blog about the Chinese vase. Then of course it was a matter of deciding how much detail to do so that it still looks painterly. Here is a … [Read more...]