Make tea, make art. Oil paint on canvas. 8×8 inches.
Category Archives: Still Life
A Mid-Summer Photo Shoot
Before a Vermont vacation, there was photography.
Gouache studies: perfect for working at home.
Here’s some gouache floral studies from the past 6 weeks – perfect for sweaty evenings during this scorching summer.
A gouache afternoon, covid continues
A quiet Saturday afternoon with my gouache and a handful of carnations. Nice to paint after all the ink drawings that I’ve been doing. In other living room/studio work, I’m taking tentative attempts with silver point and gessoing panels for using with my new acrylics that arrived this week.
Dead flowers – is it a Corona thing?
I don’t have oil paints at home where I’ve been since March 13. I do have gouache, an opaque water soluble paint. A quick visit to my studio a month ago made clear to me that it wasn’t a good idea for me. I do miss miss my art neighbors. And then I’ll open thisContinue reading “Dead flowers – is it a Corona thing?”
Art in the Time of Corona: week 1
My oil paints are in my studio, my acrylics are in a barn in Vermont and I, now with the attention span of a fruit fly, am sequestered at home with gouache, watercolors, pastels, crayons, inks and, thankfully, paper. It’s been awhile since I’ve used these, and I am expecting a certain amount of painContinue reading “Art in the Time of Corona: week 1”
Beginning: cyclamen
Scaling up to a 24×24 canvas. I want a bit more freedom & broad strokes that can come with this scale. I will be limited to just daytime painting to add a bit of backlight.
On the easel . . .
Lots of “painting it on” and “scraping it off” lately, with an orange bug brought back from Alamogordo NM.
Carol Schweigert 