Water mixable oils on a leaf

A little random exercise, first time using water mixable oil colors. I have never painted using oils so trying out the water mixable oils was quite interesting. And to make things more interesting the practice was made on a fresh leaf of any plant! I picked a big mostly even leaf from my hibiscus and…

Acrylics on a plastic glass

This time we had a trial on the painting course to try out plastic panels (plastic glass, polycarbonate sheets, or plexiglas) in acrylic painting. The painting was not done on top of the surface as you would (I did at least) expect, but kind of reverse. The painting is done to the back side and…

Acrylic painting – Landscape painting: Winter scene

Landscape painting. Quite intimidating, but managed to finish it, or at least call it done for now. This painting was to be quite realistic, life like, and then the next landscape is to be more loose. I was not immediately sure what to paint, so I went over for a little walk to take photographs…

Acrylic painting – Still life: Bamboo in a bottle

Another still-life practice, again keeping it quite simple and the topic was an everyday item. I painted a little bamboo that hangs around on my computer desk, still managing to stay alive, yet not growing much either. I want to have some greenery in my dark little cave and the bamboo has so far been…

Acrylic painting – Still life

Another painting course day topic. Again still life with a food image twist. This was painted in acrylics was to be more loose and as topic we googled social media sites for food images, foodies (?). We started with googling food images with nice composition, colors etc. I browsed Instagram the previous night and found…