by Clare Bowen | May 31, 2020 | Artist Life, Still Life
Long time no write…I have been painting a lot in my studio and garden and selling on instagram through the #artistsupportpledge – “Due to the COVID 19 pandemic many artists have found themselves without work, exhibitions being cancelled and sales...
by Clare Bowen | Mar 17, 2020 | Daffodils, Flowers, Snowdrops, Still Life
The spring cheery yellows enticed me to paint them, I thought they looked good in the stripy blue jug! A mixture of daffodil varieties, I especially like the orange centres. Light source manly behind to lift the top daffodil head so it looks transparent. I had...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 15, 2019 | Flowers, Still Life
I have rather neglected the blog recently having returned from London and my solo exhibition to distributing sold paintings and sorting out framing for people plus getting ready and taking part in the Open Studios its all go! So here is a combined post of two recent...
by Clare Bowen | Dec 27, 2018 | Christmas, Colour, Orange, Still Life
Out Christmas shopping I spotted these in a garden centre. They don’t usually have the greenery on in a supermarket. I haven’t painted this sort of subject in a long time so I thought I’d have a go!I remember having a clementine and walnut at the...
by Clare Bowen | Oct 27, 2018 | Blue, Flowers, Still Life, Sunflowers, Yellow
33x35cm oil on linen16x18″ oil on linen40x40cm oil on cotton canvasAll from the same bunch of flowers. Experimenting on linen canvas – with clear gesso, so its still buff canvas coloured.Composition – just the heads and a hint of the vase...
by Clare Bowen | Jul 6, 2018 | England, Flowers, Oil Painting, Still Life, Sunflowers, Yellow
A busy week, hard to keep on top of all the artists jobs to do, including this one!I am lucky that my Mum supplies me with great flowers to paint, like these :-)I decided to paint outside again as the natural sunlight works well on a still life especially flowers. I...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 29, 2018 | England, Flowers, Jug, Oil Painting, Peonies, Pink, Still Life
Peonies by Mary Oliver “This morning the green fists of the peoniesare getting readyto break my heartas the sun rises,as the sun strokes them with his old,buttery fingersand they open -pools of lace,white and pink – and all day the black ants climb...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 21, 2018 | Artist Life, Flowers, Peonies, Pink, Still Life, Studio
This is a whopper for me – two foot by two foot! I enjoyed it and surprised myself that I could do it and it turned out nicely :-)I did start on a a 11×14″ but it still felt crampt so I routelled around in my cupboard and found this canvas, I...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 16, 2018 | Artist Life, Daisies, England, Flowers, Oil Painting, Open Studios, Pink, Still Life, Surrey
I am enjoying these still life paintings as you can experiment so much with colour & harmonies, composition, subject…I tried with no hard line background this time, bigger in size and reflected vase on the table.I can’t write so much today as just...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 10, 2018 | Artist Tips, Blue, Daisies, Flowers, Open Studios, Still Life
Painted yesterday during our Open Studios. A busy day with 21 people coming to visit, I’ve sold 12 paintings to date – got plenty more!! But exciting to have sales and lovely feed back!This year there are many wild daisies, great blankets of them, they...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 7, 2018 | England, Flowers, Glass, Jug, Oil Painting, Peonies, Still Life
I saw these lovely white peonies in the supermarket, a sweet scent and blousie look. I managed to paint them while our Open Studio was on last weekend. Quite a challenge to get the tones and colours right. The tonal scale in the flower is so small e.g. Light...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 3, 2018 | Artist Life, England, exhibition, Flowers, Oil Painting, Open Studios, Peonies, Pink, Still Life
Painted with haste and gusto! The background a blue black to set of the light pink flowers peonies which are so fun to paint, quite addictive! (There will be more 🙂 I think they are a good subject because of the globe shape so you get great light and dark on...
by Clare Bowen | May 23, 2018 | Flowers, Jug, Pink, Purple, Still Life
I have wanted to paint peonies for a while, last year they felt too scary to tackle! So I decided to go for it! I painted outside in natural light, there was no sunshine but it didn’t matter. I placed a purple piece of paper under the flowers and decided the...
by Clare Bowen | Apr 21, 2018 | Artist Life, Flowers, Haslemere, Still Life
On Thursday this week I was part of a demo evening with Haslemere Art Society. There were 3 artists including me showing how we work, our process from start to finish.I decided to paint something from life as I find it more inspiring than a photo. I was a bit worried...
by Clare Bowen | Apr 2, 2018 | Daffodils, Flowers, Spring, Still Life, Yellow
I wanted another bash at these flowers with a lighter background and in a glass vase. I choose this green as I thought it looked a bit like grass colour! Wishing you all a Happy Easter and heres to more spring like weather 🙂
