Saturday, August 16, 2008

Florence

This painting has been sold


Oil on hardboard 8" x 8"

Learning strategy: Building up colour in the stone wall of that building and doing that with oils was not easy. I wanted the heat of the day to come through but there were blues in the wall as well as warm colours. I used the oils as sparingly as I could, the main body of the painting having been mapped out in acrylics.

4 comments:

  1. I like these close-up figures a lot, Sheila. Great series overall.

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  2. Sheila I'm just loving your cycle paintings. So look forward to viewing them each day. You're a very talented lady, Marjorie

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  3. Thanks Marjorie, I am just over half way now. I feel a bit as if I am in a bicycle race but racing with myself!

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