Small still life

A small still life 4 x 6 acrylic on board.

Eggplant

6 x 9 inches acrylic on board. The actual painting has a more red/orange colour cast to it, the camera has compensated.

The advantage of being a painter

It's the only example I can think of where you can have your cake and eat it!

A few new works

Still experimenting with lighting arrangements this week.

Something new

Inspired by still lives seen on other blogs and having seen a railway sleeper in our local gallery. I trotted off to our nearest reclamation centre and bought half a railway sleeper and some large slates. I wanted dramatic lighting, the set up took some doing. I am still trying to work out how to get damatic lighting at the same time as decent light to paint by. Here is an early still life from the set up. I am happy with this for a first attempt but hope to improve.

pastel pic

A pastel drawing on primed paper 22 x 18 inches.

As Requested

As requested I am uploading not only new drawings from this week, but some works that are propped against the wall waiting for me to decide what to do with them. Above is a work in acrylic on board one foot high by two wide.
Above oil on canvas 17 X 30 inches.
A small work in loose bright colours acrylic on board. The model was in dressing up mode adopting Sin city characteristics. Great colours reflections, wig and fun to paint. Acrylic on board 10 x 8 inches.
A sketch from uni. acrylic on board 13.5 x 12.
Acrylic on board 8.5 x 13 model on metallic fabrics.
12 x 17 Acrylic on board.
Above and below new works. Pastel on primed paper 18 X 22 inches.
Pastel on primed paper 22 x 18 inches ( paper size, image has been cropped).