Showing posts with label coffee cups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coffee cups. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Gray Study of Two Cups


With these I tried something different: I premixed my grays.  I made the darkest gray I could with my red, yellow and blue.  Then, using white, I mixed five incrementally lighter shades and started painting. I tried to limit myself to my six choices.  It's a good exercise in really seeing and comparing values.  Since doing these studies, I find myself staring at scenes or objects and imagining how I would paint them in grays.

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Still Lifes at the Sink

 

10" x 8", oil on paper

A scene in my kitchen I look at multiple times a day and have often thought- I'd like to paint this.
So finally I did and happily I managed not to get any paint on the counters.