Another waypoint in my quest to paint more about less. This is the sunset grazing the bottom of our bathroom door.
“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.” Edward Hopper.
Well said, Ed.
Dinner is often dictated by which vegetables at the supermarket would look best in a painting. Red peppers often feature … and then there was the durian incident.
I thought this fellow looked like a body builder, showing off impressive, bulging muscles that are just the tiniest bit futile.
I suspect the only way to capture the warm translucence of honey in a painting is through glazing. I practised glazing in several layers with transparent orange oil paint, using linseed oil and solvent as a medium, to capture this, the last honey of the summer.
My hope, one day, is to create, in Robert Hughes’s words, a painting that ‘holds time as a vase holds water’
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