Saturday, March 27, 2010

Still Life

So I have been doing a lot of charcoal stuff lately and decided, after being inspired by Rob Rey's beautiful still lifes, I wanted to spend some time painting to keep up my practice. I haven't done a proper still life in... a long time. So I set one up all nice like- even did some clever umbrella action to control the light. Here's the set-up:



And the full painting:



Because I'm me, I spent longer on it than I had originally planned- so tomorrow I think I will set up a smaller one, stick to my time-limit and see what happens. I was just too happy to be playing with paints today to stop.

4 comments:

  1. This is really quite lovely Kristina. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with tomorrow. Makes me realize...I should probably jump on the still life bandwagon....

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  2. Aw man, now I really want to do a still life, really nice work!

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  3. I've started a trend. :) Looks great!
    I didn't do my still lives with any hard time limits, but they are a great exercise. I get the time limits automatically when I do portraits from life.

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  4. Nice...do that pickle jar next.

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