Daily #37 Little Bird

Little Bird

A few weeks ago we had a special sketch marathon lesson at our workshop... One of the images I did was of a small bird  which was a 5 minute charcoal sketch on newsprint. Thought it would make a nice painting so at our last class of the season I did this small painting,

Oils on cardboard with a painted background.  25 x 30 cm.  Wanted to keep the spontaneity of the brush strokes and the general gesture of the bird.

Oils on Cardboard 25 x 30 cm

5 Minute sketch 

Workshop Chinese Vase with Lantern Flowers

Chinese Vase with Lantern Flowers

This is another entry in Wetcanvas WDE event for May 9th hosted by Mary aka Missswiss.
I really loved this reference and took it to my weekly workshop class.

Oils on cardboard  47 x 32 cm  Used brushes  palette knife and sandpaper for texture effects.
Took some progress shots.

The final background is much lighter .. I may tweak the table to ground the vase.   The vase seems to be flouting.. Thinking of bringing back some of the darks.

Daily # 37 Yellow Poppies

Poppies with Gnome

Well not really a daily.... did it in the evening and next morning tweaked the statue... it was much to big..
This is from the WDE at wet canvas this weekend.

Used some leftover paints from the color charts for the backgrounds
Size 25 x 30 cm

 background

Statue not right!!! 

 Statue fixed and colors tweaked

First thought was to use crayons as under-painting.. used medium on the surface but then decided to stop... always a difficult decision... Enjoyed working on the oil background... but may tweak!!!