SOLD - Music at the park - Original Figurative Painting in Oils

I clicked this reference at a public park a couple of years ago, and it was unearthed recently. I wanted to give a shot at a tighter crop, let me know what you think. I am quite happy with it.:)

Music at the park
Oil on board, 6 by 6 inches
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A Companion Pair - Original Still Life in Oils

The baby shoes totally needed a companion painting, didn't they? So well, here it is! :-)

A Companion Pair
Oil on Board, 6 by 6 inches
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SOLD - Juicy Gossip - Original Still Life in Oils

I wanted to paint something with bigger shapes, not worrying much about details instead focusing on the values and colors. And the lemons were just ready! Changed the direction of the light to get  some bigger shadows. 

Do the lemons look like they are chatting with each other? Hence the title! :-)

Juicy Gossip
Oil on Board, 6 by 6 inches
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I also decided to challenge myself to paint 30 pieces in 30 days in April. This is painting #2. Let me see how it goes. 

The First Pair - Original Still Life in Oils

My little monster now is old enough to wear shoes! She is 16 months old now and is just beginning to walk, so we decided to get her a pair of shoes. Omg how cute these baby shoes are! I knew even before buying that I had to paint them. They arrived in the mail yesterday and mommy got to use them before the baby. My little one wasn't very pleased with the new heavy stuff attached to her feet though, tried her best to remove them :-) 

The First Pair
Oil on board, 6 by 6 inches
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Having never painted shoes before, these were hugely challenging. And mixing pink is always a challenge. I could not get the pink as it is on the shoes, but I hope I have got something half decent here. These shoes will be painted again in the near future, that much I am sure.:) And I cannot wait to get her next pair already :P 

SOLD - A Better View - Reworked

Regular followers of my work would recognise this piece from my 30 in 30 challenge in January 2014. It is one of those paintings where I knew something was not right but I could not point a finger at it. So after a good two months I picked it up again today and reworked it. I fixed quite a few things. There weren't major changes with respect to the proportions and stuff, but a lot of smaller changes here and there. I also pushed the values a bit more as it was full of mid range values the last time. 

A Better View
Oil on Board, 6 by 6 inches
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A look at both the pictures together to see the changes. Do you see all that has been fixed? :-)

SOLD - Bottoms Up! - Original Painting of Children in Oils

I had painted these little girls a long time back, and the result was abysmal. It is one of those paintings that went straight to trash without a thought, when I was doing my periodic review. So this is not a rework, but a completely new painting with the same reference. A bright sunny day and two curious little girls probably trying to spot some fish. What's not there to love.

Bottoms Up
Oil on Board, 6 by 6 inches
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Oh and by the way, I can't even begin to tell how difficult it is for me to open the fridge every time and ignore those lemons calling out to me ;-)

SOLD - Just lemons - Original Still Life Painting in Oils

So, this makes it a dozen lemon paintings! When I started this series of lemons, it wasn't planned to be a series at all. I wanted to experiment painting from life and just picked up the stuff I had in my fridge. Though I had a few oranges, apples and lots of vegetables, the lemons just got lucky :-) It wasn't planned. After painting them on a warm background, I wanted to paint them on a cool background and so one experiment led to another and I was hooked. 

Though the lemons are fun and all that, my most favourite part to paint every single time was the knife. I love getting it to look like metal and love capturing the combination of shadows and reflections. I have no more lemons in my pantry so I think I will leave them aside for a while. I will get back to this gorgeous fruit after some time, in combination with different props. I did some sketching yesterday and I am dying to get some figures painted. :-)

Just lemons
Oil on board, 6 by 6 inches
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Let me leave you with a collage of all the lemon paintings so far. Do you have a favourite? Let me know in the comments :-)

A dozen lemons!
All of them sold :)

SOLD - Over the top - Original Still life painting in Oils

As much as possible, I try to set up the lemons in such a way that the shadows overlap between the green and red/blue papers. It gives a lovely mix of colors in the shadows and I enjoy playing around with them. With this setup however, there is hardly any overlap. What I loved instead was the pattern formed by the shadows. I just couldn't get enough of it! 

Over the top
Oil on board, 6 by 6 inches
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SOLD - Fractions, Reframed - Original Still Life Painting in Oils

One thing is for sure, that I will run out of titles faster than I run out of compositions. I'd rather have it this way than the other way round ;-) Decided to change the direction of the knife as I got so used to painting it in one direction. I am really pleased with this one, it could probably be my favourite of the series so far.:-) Let me know what you think! 

Fractions, Reframed
Oil on board, 6 by 6 inches
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SOLD - One by two - Original Still Life Painting in Oils

Last week, I spotted a shop nearby that was having a clearance sale of home decor stuff. Promptly went there the next day itself and picked up a lot of ceramic vases in different shapes and colors, and some other props. I have been dying to use these things in still life set ups, but at the same time, I relish the challenge of the lemons. It gives me a chance to push myself to see what I can do, given just two lemons, a knife and two pieces of paper. The whole series is just using these things. I will try to come up with a couple of more compositions I think, after which I have a whole bunch of other subjects to paint. 

One by two
Oil on Board, 6 by 6 inches
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SOLD - Upper Berth - Original Still Life Painting in Oils

The second composition with the same set of slices generally gets done quicker. I set up this one quite fast and did not think too much about composition rules and the likes. I liked it and had to paint it. That's all! :-) 

Upper Berth
Oil on board, 6 by 6 inches
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SOLD - Right on top - Original Still Life Painting in Oils

I wanted to do one more set up from the old set of slices, that had a full lemon and the second lemon into 4 pieces. Somehow it was not coming together even after spending an inordinate amount of time. Every time I arranged something, it did not feel right. Then I picked up one more lemon and sliced it vertically into wedges, spending a lot of time again mixing and matching. At one point there were so many lemons on my table that I thought of picking up a larger canvas! :-D 

I sort of ditched them after a while and went away to attend to other household chores. I was on the road driving when this idea popped up, that I could simplify the composition instead of adding more and more elements to it. As soon as I got home, I rushed to my studio to set it up and could quickly come up with an arrangement that I liked. Some time away always helps me when things aren't going as expected. I hope to do one more with the wedges on the red background. Hope you like this one! 

Right on top
Oil on board, 6 by 6 inches
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Stepping down - Original Still Life Painting in Oils

When I make a single cut into a lemon, I try to make at least two paintings out of it :D Hence today's painting again is with exactly the same pieces made out of two lemons.

Stepping down
Oil on board, 6 by 6 inches
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SOLD - Citrus fractions - Original Still Life in Oils

Red and blue, red and blue, so today it is the turn of blue again ;-)

Citrus Fractions
Oil on board, 6 by 6 inches
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SOLD - Step it up - Original Still life Painting in Oils

Yesterday I started this new figurative piece that was all summery and nice, just the way I like it. But for some reason, I was messing up the woman's proportions and had to erase and sketch a couple of times. So I decided to leave her for another day and went back to the lemons smiling at me every time I opened the fridge :-)

Step it up
Oil on board, 6 by 6 inches
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Let me know what you think!