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Underneath the paint
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Nothing stays still, everything moves
Read more: Nothing stays still, everything movesThis week I’ve made some progress on the Butterfly No.1 painting, and something quite odd happened as I painted its wings that threw me into thinking about it for a week. The Wings I’d been painting the butterfly’s wings with short strokes without thinking, I didn’t plan that at all. I only noticed it when…
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Progress of The Butterfly
Read more: Progress of The ButterflyOne week since my last post I have been adding to the butterfly picture every day. I now understand the reason why oil painters have so many pictures on the go at the same time. Oil painting is a process of addition and sometimes subtraction, but all in all it is the process of building…
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The Ebay purchased painting and it’s copy.
Read more: The Ebay purchased painting and it’s copy.If you have been following along here, you will know by now that my real passion is not so much finishing paintings as learning colour. Mixing it, getting it wrong, and slowly working out why. This post is really just three more installments of that same education: one from the easel, one from YouTube, and…
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Starting with learning how primary colours work
Read more: Starting with learning how primary colours workThe three tubes, well 4 including the Titanium White. The Michael Harding Cobalt Blue, Rowney Cadmium Yellow series E and Winsor and Newton Titanium White series 1 are rather old, bought when I first started learning about oil painting. The larger Winsor and Newton Alizarin Crimson is a recent buy to complete the three primary…
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Old Pages, Old Signs: Looking for Inspiration Off Pinterest
Read more: Old Pages, Old Signs: Looking for Inspiration Off PinterestOne of the first Aubin & Wills stores I designed in Brighton, UK.
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Learning to See: What Painting Has Taught Me About Colour
Read more: Learning to See: What Painting Has Taught Me About ColourA butterfly artwork I purchased from ebay. It only measures 8cm x 4cm but it one of my favourite paintings.