Glass of cherries (small work) 5x5 inch

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still life with pan of apples

Here is another image of my progress with this still life. Most of the underpainting is covered with some color. Chroma and value is what I will be fine tuning next. The wall paper will be the real challenge.

First layer of paint

I have started to put the first layer of paint on the seabass painting! Things are starting to gel together.

finishing underpainting

I have finished the underpainting for my seabass painting. As you can see, I have applied color to the 24 x 36 inch panel. I have no grayscale underpainting that I am working from. I am working from photographs and the line drawing that I did earlier.

In the plate to the left, I changed the arrangement of the lemons. Instead of two lemons I decided that one peeled lemon might look more interesting. Willem Kalf (a Dutch painter) did a wonderful painting with a lobster and drinking horn. It has a little peeled lemon lying on the table; I have always wanted to do something similar. I thought the peeled lemon might compliment this seafood arrangement.

Here is a painting that I just got started on yesterday. I am by-passing the value underpainting where you establish the values first. What I am doing here is certainly a faster way to go but can be more problematic. Not only do I have to concern myself with hitting the right hue and the saturation of the color. I also need to keep in the mind whether the values ( lights and darks) of the color are close to what I am seeing. If not, I will have to do some reworking. I am painting from the background to the foreground of the underpainting.

I have started to put in a light glaze of color to the underpainting. I am using a simple method of application called a "couch". I apply a few dabs of thick stand oil in the area I wish to paint and then rub paint thinner into the oil. (I use Gamsol mineral spirits.) This provides a nice slippery surface to work into and dries within a days time. The stand oil helps keep the paint conditioned and slightly fatty so that it won't crack over time. This is only the first layer of paint that I am putting on right now. This gives me an idea how close my colors are at so that I can tweak them later.