Still Life: …Work in Progress …4th Quarter about to start

“Work in Progress”
16 x 20 oil on belgian linen canvas panel

Spent a couple more hours working on this second still life set up created by Elaine Kurie for a painting class last fall.

Finding it difficult to get motivated to finish it. Get distracted by my own work. Promised myself to give it more attention this month.

The patience required to achieve hyperrealism is not a strength of mine, so this painting style is ill-suited to me. Prefer a looser and more expressive approach to painting. Trying to incorporate some of myself into this still life. Hope you can see it in the silk cloth, the three vessels, and the wheat stalks. Realistic but not so exact in the execution as the first Kurie still life set up I did last fall. More expressive brush work with softer edges in this painting.

Materials are Winsor & Newton oil paints. RayMar panel. Rosemary Brushes.

Palette is Alizarin Crimson, Burnt Umber, Ivory Black (background); Viridian, Light Green, Burnt Umber, Titanium White (silk cloth); Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Ivory Black (bowl, shadows and tablecloth), Titanium White and Yellow Ochre (wheat stalks). Will add some cool color to the shadows, a warm glaze to the wheat stalks, and a raw sienna to the whiskey cap to simulate gold.

Still need to accomplish several things in the finishing stage:

Finish modeling the green silk cloth.

Finish the standing glass and add a slight ellipse at the lip.

Continue refining the top ellipse and modeling of the bowl, both interior and exterior.

Finish the whiskey bottle.

Refine the whiskey label and cap forms and add color.

Refine the cast shadows of all three vessels with attention to temperature.

Create reflections of color on the whiskey bottle, tall glass, and bowl.

Glaze color onto the wheat stalks.

Add highlights and accents.

8 hours total so far.

Progress not perfection.