New Mexican Black Bear

Bear (Oils  18 x 12 cm)

This little character I picked up in New Mexico a while back.  It suffered some attacks by a puppy but survived and still resides on my desk reminds me of sunnier times. 

Sweet Pea alla prima

Sweet Pea (oil 12 x 18 cm)

Sweet pea in a glass.  About 1 hour. Glass could have been better!

Gmini 402 alla prima

Gmini 402 in oils

This is the next in the series of small oil studies.  This was a blast to do. It may be because I am Quite attached to this little mp3 player. It is an Archos Gmini 402 which also has a camcorder.  Archos were out there working on mp3 players before the ipod launched.
It has been overtaken by newer models but this one does what I want it to do really well which is play mp3s. It is robust easy to use and I principally use it when I am cycling.

Autumn leaf alla prima

Autumn leaf   (oil on oil painting paper 18 x 12 cm)

The smaller size made this achievable in about 1 h.  I think I will stick to this kind of size for these practice studies.

alla prima orange

I decided to do a series of smaller still life studies to get some more practice in oils. 

Orange (Oil on oil painting paper 30 x 20 cm)

This took about 1 1/2 hours.  after completing this I decided to cut the size of these down to half to get them to a more finished state in a shorter time.  More to come...