Silver cup and spoon still life (wips and done)

A new still life appears! This one was a long slog to get through all that little detail in the snowflakes, but it was fun. I tried something new with blurring to try to get a sense of depth, but I don’t know how I feel about it. An unblurred finished version is at the end. It’s been […]

Bananas still life (wips and done)

Bananas! These bananas had no idea they would be immortalized in a still life when I picked them up off the stand at Safeway. To be honest, I had no idea either. 😛 They just looked like they’d be fun to paint so I moved them off my kitchen counter and onto my still life […]

Flashlight, clothespins, shark still life (wips and done)

And another one! April has been a great month for digital still life paintings. This one is pretty heavy on the red stuff, but that’s okay -I always love working with a limited palette. I think the big clothespin up front is my favorite. The shark is a rubber toy (alas, it does not squeak, but […]

Metal cup and rattle still life, daylight (done)

Positions unchanged since last time, but this one was painted in early morning daylight coming in from the window behind the scene. I used the previous nighttime version as a base, but corrected a lot of little perspective things (and could probably keep going – ARGH, CIRCLES lol). Painting in daylight means working fast and taking […]