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Still Life Onions Demonstration, Oil Painting lessons

A Still Life Onions demonstration. Here's the start of a new piece in Oil Painting Tips from my easel. A customer contacted the gallery for an order to match another piece they had purchased. I wanted to give here a walk through the entire process. Their instructions were a dark background, grey shelf with onions! We can do that!

Below is the reference set-up.

Here's the pencil drawing of the reference still-life.

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Then comes the ink drawing which will preserve the base image.

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Then the imprimatura coat roughly brushed in.

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Then a blending with the large mop brush to eliminate the brush strokes of the initial imprimatura coat application.

Keep us bookmarked so you can return to see the progress of this work. Todays January 6th, 2009 when I posted this progress "From my Easel".

Click here to return to the Top of Still Life Onions Demonstration.

Click here to go to the Umber Under Layer of this demonstration.

Click here to go to the Dead Layer demonstration of this painting

Click here to see the color layers of this demonstration.

Click here to go to the Finishing Layer of this demonstration.

December's On the Easel Example of a "Christmas Cactus"!

An older work "Rose of Sharon" Demonstration

An older work "Glow from Within" a single succulent daffodil blossom oil painting demonstration

An older work "Roses on a Pedestal" three red roses on a pedestal with a little friend, the lucky lady bug demonstration

An older work "Full Red Blossom" a fully developed red rose on a table top with dew demonstration

An older work "Grapes with Bottle" a beautiful bunch of grapes, wine bottle and a half full glass wine demonstration.

Another older work of a hybrid tea Rose. A Beautiful hybrid tea rose "Rainbow Niagara" demonstration from the Canadian Side of the Falls.

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