by Andy Dolphin | May 17, 2010 | issues, limited palette, oil painting, still life
Following the success of Red & Blue #1, I used the same props and 4-colour limited palette to do a second still life.Oddly, this one threw some unexpected challenges at me. I had essentially completed the painting but for some reason, I could not get the small...
by Andy Dolphin | May 14, 2010 | limited palette, oil painting, still life
After playing around with Photoshop and making a small still life digital painting of an apple last week, I decided it was time to bite the bullet and give real still life another go. It’s been a long time since I’ve done it.I had to search around for a...
by Andy Dolphin | May 9, 2010 | landscape, oil painting, plein air, seascape, sunset, weather
I left my “day job” early on Friday afternoon and set off to find something to paint. The heavy cloud cover we had earlier in the day had cleared leaving almost cloudless blue skies, no breeze and warm sunshine.I drove toward Albany’s Princess Royal...
by Andy Dolphin | May 8, 2010 | digital art, landscape, sunset
After my digital apple painting from a couple of days ago, I thought I’d try a digital landscape painting in Photoshop.I’ve tried painting landscapes in Photoshop before but without much joy. This time I approached it just like an oil painting. I laid down...
by Andy Dolphin | May 6, 2010 | digital art, sketch, still life
I’ve been reading a lot of Carol Marine’s excellent art blog lately and am inspired by her fruity still lifes in oil. Tonight I discovered Michael Naples’ blog and was captivated by his still lifes too.Then just for fun I opened Photoshop and started...
