Oil Painting Tips from my Easel.

Here's my latest demonstration for you! It is how to paint silver and a single pink rose with a few really nice close up shots of the paint application.

Enjoy!

Tea Pot with pink rose still life painting demonstration

And below, a really good demo on mixing your colors right on the canvas with Pretty Pink Peonies.

With this demonstration, I will show you two very big time saving tips the Renaissance artists used. You will not find these two tips anywhere else on the site, so go on over to check them out. But WAIT!

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The 2nd painting demonstration is here, a Rose Drawing and Painting demo! Its shows the process of a single rose, it's drawing through the grisaille or dead/gray layer. Then on to the color and finishing layers.

This months rose demonstration

Here's the beginning reference set-up for the painting.

Food Art Onions part 1 demonstration

Food Art Onions part 2 demonstration

Most demo's are broken up to 2 pages. One will be the preliminary work through the dead layer, and then the color layers and finishing layers will be on a 2nd page.

The image below is of the progress of the painting at this point.

In this case, the painting is completed!

• January's "From the easel" example, Another set of onions, but twice as many photo's showing you the process in better details! Let me know if you like this format.
  
  
• December's "From the easel" example, A Gorgeous Christmas Cactus in bloom
  
  
• An older work "Rose of Sharon" paint demonstration.
  
  
• An older work "Glow From Within" of a Succulent Single White Daffodil blossom oil painting demonstration.
  
  
• An older work "Rainbow Niagara" of a hybrid tea rose bush from the Canadian Side of the Falls.
  
  
• An older work "Grapes with Bottle" of a beautiful bunch of grapes, bottle of wine and half full glass of wine. All I needed is the cheese and crackers! Another great short oil painting demonstration.
  
  
• An older work "Roses on a Pedestal" three red roses on a pedestal with a lucky lady bug, gorgeous demonstration.
  
  
• An older work "Full Red Blossom" a fully developed red rose blossom with dew demonstration.
  
  
• A still life demonstration of onions from start to finish.
  
  

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