Blue still life painting

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Original still life oil paintings for sale. Contemporary impressionist style, painted in alla prima method with brushes and palette knives.

Lemons in blue, oil on canvas, 8 x 10 x 5/8 in. I’ve been reading “Oil Painting Essentials” by Gregg Kreutz, and one mantra from this book has lodged in my brain: “Make light the main event.” To me, this is a huge point. When I first started painting, I thought that paintings were like photos. In photos we usually focus on a subject, and we don’t necessarily think much about light and shadow (check out how many still life photos on Pixabay have no shadows!). My paintings were all about the…

Picasso's got nothing on me. He only ever had oneblueand oneredperiod. I've had three of each already, and all in the same month too. I concede that each oneonly consisted of asingle painting, but that's a mere technicality. This the third and, for the time being at least, thelast of the blue/

Electric blue, oil on canvas panel, 10 x 10 in.I painted this piece to launch Week 4 of the Study from Life Challenge that I am co-hosting on Instagram. This week's theme is blue! My daughter Sophia (10) named this painting Electric blue, and that fits perfectly. I painted on a bigger panel than usual, which was definitely an added challenge. I'm trying to get used to different canvas sizes and especially larger sizes, rather than always painting on an 8 x 8.

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