Friday, August 31, 2012
Some of My Acrylics
"Autumn" -acrylic on hard board 36"x24" , does not need frame. $600
"Collection of Butterflies" -acrylic on paper board. Sold
" Winter Spearing" -acrylic on canvas board, 24"x18" Sold
"Good Luck" -acrylic on canvas board, 24"x18 Sold
Fishing House and Dachshund" -acrylic on canvas board, 24"x18" $400 (framed)
"Sunflower" -acrylic on canvas, 16"x20" $600 (framed)
"Old Bamboo Rod" -acrylic on canvas board, 36"x24" NFS
"Siberian Tiger" -acrylic on paper board, 8"x10" Sold
Some of my Oil Paintings
"The Smoker" -oil on canvas 10"x12" $800 (framed)
Oil Pastel Drawings
"Bluebill" -oil pastel on blue paper, 15"x12" $90 (unframed)
Some of my soft pastels
"The Cat" - soft pastel pencils on yellow papeeer, 14'x10" $120 (unframed)
"Summer Comes" - soft pastel on black paper, 10"x10" $90 (unframed)
"The Master of Shallow Water" -soft pastel on grey paper, 19"x12" $150 (unframed)
"Red Plastic Boat" -soft pastel on light blue paper, 14"x10" Sold
"Warm Water" - soft pastel on orange paper, 9"x7" $60 (unframed)
"Lake Monster" -soft pastel on dark blue paper, 19"x12 Sold
Some of my Watercolors
"Little Red Lanturn"-watercolor on paper, 11"x14" $ 240 (framed)
"Old-Fashioned Spring" -watercolor on paper, 7"x9,5" $185 (unframed)
"Onions" -watercolor on paper, 10"x6" $185 (unframed)
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Still life with cut lemon
I decided to paint still life, keeping at least some traditions of classical still life paintings. It should be transparent water-bottle, lace drapery, some fruits and – certainly - a cut lemon. It’s a lot of oil pictures of still life, but I want to try oil pastels.
Oil pastels seem to be “unmanageable”, usually they don’t permit artist to mix more than 3 colors, they “aggressive” to light colors – I think it is impossible to fix oil pastels painting by coating the wrong item by paint. But how impressive oil pastels are!
What a grateful painting is an oil pastels painting!
Pastels are ready; piece of blue cardboard is fastened.
Here is the composition I would like to paint. I will not follow this picture exactly – I am dreaming of painting a peel lemon in this small bowl.
I am painting all the picture items at the same time, step by step, returning again and again to the same subject.
As usual I am starting by white color, and then add some light colors – permanently to “feel” the general composition.
Light areas will be warm, shades will be cold. I am adding some warm color to show volume of embroidery and folders.
Mandarin, lemon, peeled mandarin and mandarin segment are painted keeping the same rule – light is warm, shade is cold. Glares and reflexes are also warm. Reflex is darker than glare.
My picture looks like this now
Let’s stop for today.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Still life with lemon by oil pastels (continuation)
Step by step I am painting glass water-botle, keeping in mind that colors viewed through glass, seem to be more dark and bright.