Studio Campagna

[...] and perennial Geranium. Start -  Ginger Jar with Tangerines and Blue Flowers 8 x 10 Oil on Canvas Panel © 2013 Decided to try it with the design afterall... left a lot of the design off, but it is [...]

[...] weeks ago, and just recently finished. I was looking for something simple to paint on a 5 x 7 canvas panel that I had for awhile and thought it should get used. I've got so much 'stuff' in my studio [...]

[...] drying on the rack I'll share in the next couple posts. Sunflowers and Tulips II 9 x 7 Oil on Canvas Panel © 2013 Sunflowers are wonderfully interesting to paint and can be very fun to interpret. [...]

[...] what subtle differences might surface, wish me luck!!! Plate, Onion and Poppies 8 x 8 Oil on Canvas Panel © 2013 [...]

[...] life, but usually difficult to find time and resources for this. Since I've been exploring the Zorn Palette via the Online Watts Atelier, it seems that a good photo reference might be enough to get in [...]

[...] To continue... I worked on this with a very limited palette. I was intended to try the 'Zorn Palette', but found it less appealing the more I worked with it. Soooooo... instead of using ivory [...]

[...] Well, I went hard core Zorn on this one, and I am most certain that the Zorn Palette is NOT for food products. I think my opinion on this reflected in the final image - seems like [...]

[...] will use a warm and cool of each primary on their palette to get better control of mixes. Zorn Palette Should you use a limited palette? If a beginner, yes, but more experienced painters will too. [...]

[...] Layers and Adjust the Values Something I haven't done before is to try painting with only a palette knife, so I decided this layer would be done that way. I also used a rubber wipeout tool. NO brushes [...]

[...] because I don't have a real steady hand or good tool for defining them except for a palette knife. However, since I have these blocks left over from my granddaughter's stash, I just set [...]

[...] I wanted to get back to working with the palette knife again on a landscape. It produces a sculptural quality that seems to fit with landscape images. [...]

[...] . The canvas panel was an 8 x 10 cut down to 9 x 7 inches; the color palette includes ultramarine blue, cad scarlet, cad yellow light and quinacridone magenta, and white - It is not a true [...]

[...] - using oil primed linen sheet, and bristle brush with a mix of transparent red oxide and ultramarine blue, and with the lighting from from my left overhead. The image is reversed because of using a [...]

[...] light), Quinacridone Magenta (interchange with Alizarin Crimson or Permanent Rose), Ultramarine blue (as usual), and the Manganese blue (interchange with Cerulean blue or possibly Sevres [...]

[...] it. Soooooo... instead of using ivory black, I mixed my black with transparent red oxide and ultramarine blue. I tuned my yellow ochre with some cadmium yellow light, and used only a small bit of [...]

[...] The Last Supper. I am so taken by this one painting, that I view it every time I visit the Seattle Art Museum. This link will take you to the SAM web page of the image. There are several other studies [...]

[...] Since seeing the Rembrandt painting at the Seattle Art Museum (the Kenwood House Collection) this past Spring, I've become more and more curious about [...]

[...] the hosting blog is probably the most challenging to accomplish in this exercise because of the time limit on when posting is closed for any given day. Day 21 Why this lemon?? Well, I've seen a lot of [...]

[...] from life. Three days of the same model (me), the same lighting, and the same pose, with a time limit of about one to one and one half hour each. Exploring materials on these too... you'll find the [...]

[...] with yellows it makes some interesting greens. To review these first ten days... Setting a time limit for working on a study... this is good sometimes, and not so good at other times. If I want to [...]

[...] several corrections in the drawing, and then I proceeded. Self Portrait Oil on 9 x 12 Linen Sheet ©2015 My thoughts when 'taking this on' was to use a light that would make the features [...]

[...] , I am still painting each day, and that's a very good thing. Materials are acrylic primed linen sheet and my usual bristle brushes and color palette. The rose is and off-white silk type, and while [...]

[...] . The only changes were the pear and the berries. Fractured Pear & White Berries Oil on Linen Sheet 9 x 9 © 2015 After looking at this for a couple days now, I think I see this process as a [...]

[...] . And this I've discovered is one of the interesting things about classical work. In a classical painting there is an underlying framework for composing the painting. You've heard of the 'golden [...]

[...] ) Part of my motivation to paint this is to build on my understanding of the geometry in classical painting. So since Rubens is not taking any new live students at this time, I was trying to figure [...]