Paul foxton paintings

Paul Foxton on Instagram: "This painting in six steps! So much of it was done at the wipe out stage, and with sandpaper, steel wool and a knife. The final painting stage was mostly dropping the chroma in some of the shadows and the lights, leaving the original shadow colour I mixed at the start to show through unaltered in places. Altogether, two sessions of around 4 to 6 hours each."

Paul Foxton

Paul Foxton

Every once in a while I find fruit at the grocery store with leaves on it. I must say that it is one of those lovely surprises that inspires me to p…

Paul Foxton on Instagram: “Roses have sadly died but the painting won't change much now :)”

Flowers are hard to paint. Yellow flowers are particularly difficult. It's the shadows. You see, especially on high chroma flowers, it's often impossible to get high enough chroma in the shadows. In paint, we lose chroma quicky as we go down the value scale.

Paul Foxton on Instagram: "Wipe out start of a rose painting. What I love about this method is that it makes you think in terms of light and shadow shapes right from the beginning."