Still life oil painting

Lemons in blue, oil on canvas, 8 x 10 x 5/8 in. I’ve been reading “Oil Painting Essentials” by Gregg Kreutz, and one mantra from this book has lodged in my brain: “Make light the main event.” To me, this is a huge point. When I first started painting, I thought that paintings were like photos. In photos we usually focus on a subject, and we don’t necessarily think much about light and shadow (check out how many still life photos on Pixabay have no shadows!). My paintings were all about the…

Alexei Antonov

This painting features a turquoise bottle containing orange blossoms and a trio of orange pieces positioned off to the side. Size: 12” x 12” Oil on 7/8″ Gallery Wrapped Linen Canvas

Blue surprise, oil on canvas panel, 8 x 8 in. When I started this painting I meant to use ultramarine blue. I squeezed out the paint from my big blue tube, alongside burnt sienna and cad yellow. But a while into the painting, I started thinking "this ultramarine blue is so strange, it doesn't lean towards violet at all!" And then it hit me, "wait a minute, didn't I also have an identical tube of pthalo blue?" Oh yes. Pthalo blue surprised me though, I wouldn't have chosen it but it worked…