by Clare Bowen | Apr 29, 2016 | Food, Small
I have been poorly this week (with a nasty cough) , so I was only up to doing a small painting today. These chocolates were surpringsly tricky to paint. The colours are quite intense, I used my artifical colours like Pathalo Blue & Green and Magenta. Lots of...
by Clare Bowen | Mar 27, 2016 | Blue, Food, Orange, Small, Square
This is my “Easter Egg’ from my husband so I thought I’d paint it! – and of course eat it later :-)Some tough areas to work out, simplifying the silver foil wrapper but still showing the complexity and tones of the crimples. I haven’t...
by Clare Bowen | Mar 23, 2016 | Jug, Orange, Pottery, Small, Square, Still Life
A small painting today as I am looking after my dog who had an op on Monday. Loose brush and emphasising the shape of the bellied pot.I used Blue-Violet and Cadmium Yellow Pale, plus some Cad Red, limiting the colours helps to add harmony.Matte in my studio with...
by Clare Bowen | Mar 16, 2016 | Small, Square, Still Life, Vegetable
These paintings are an aid for my students in next weeks class. They will be painting mushrooms and practise mixing greys and browns from the 3 primary colours – Red, Yellow & Blue and focusing on tone, the light and shade of an object.They were a good...
by Clare Bowen | Mar 7, 2016 | Landscape, Small, Surrey, View
These two little studies I painted from my studio window. Great light, with scudding clouds across the sky, although each time I looked out to observe them they had moved! I quickly sketched the main shapes in with the lightest tone and then built from there.Fun to do...
by Clare Bowen | Feb 28, 2016 | Green, Jug, Purple, Small, Still Life
With each painting I do I try and challenge myself, whether it is with composition, colour, being outside…today I decided to do my first pattern on my subject. There was a pattern on the bottle but I took it sa a starting point. I painted the pattern first (so...
by Clare Bowen | Feb 21, 2016 | Fruit, Orange, Small, Square
I started the top one on a natural coloured board but decided I would do two studies at the same time to experiment with background colours, composition and to compare with a white ground and a coloured ground (see pic below)I was aiming for the orange to be luminous...
by Clare Bowen | Feb 20, 2016 | Jug, Small, Square, Still Life
I have had the ‘lurgy’ the past few days, bad cold and cough with no painting. So it’s good to get back to it today.I like the shape of this little jug, reminds of something in the Dutch masters time – Vermeer, ‘Girl with the Pearl...
by Clare Bowen | Jan 31, 2016 | Flower, Green, Iris, Purple, Small, Square, Yellow
My Mum and Dad in law are coming for Sunday lunch. I wanted to get a little painting in before they came and before we started cleaning the house! I lit the flower but I ended up turning it off half way through as it made it too complicated with the lights and...
by Clare Bowen | Jan 28, 2016 | Flower, Green, Iris, Purple, Small, Square, Yellow
It was good to try the iris again, a close up small painting. Easier to focus on the colours and tones when there is just a single flower. I had ‘learnt’ the subject yesterday so it was familiar today and therefore a lot easier. I enjoyed using the rich...
by Clare Bowen | Jan 24, 2016 | Fruit, Green, Red, Small, Square, Still Life
This a the smallest painting I have ever done. And it caused me quite a lot of angst! The aim was to make the brush strokes as loose and confident as I could, without going back and fussing it. The hard bit is to describe the shape and details without loosing the...
