Sauce still life
 

First sauce experiment... this stuff is lush.

Of course we shouldn't focus on portraiture 100% of the time, and I think the popularity of this thread shows that the artists here have all sorts of muses.

But I remain grateful that this site's focus is portraiture.

Apples on Silk - Portrait of Apples!
 

Ok, so maybe not a traditional portrait, but hey, thanks for looking anyway!

The pic blows out the cut apple a bit and darkens the details in the shadow areas.

11x15 inches oil on panel

Gorgeous, Michael! I particularly like the fabric.

Thank you, Michele.

Michael, my eight-year-old daughter just saw your painting and said, "I can feel the silk, I can smell the apples and I can taste them, too!"

Michael, the fabric is wonderful, the rest is too! You can certainly see you are an accomplished student of Bill Whitakers!

Congrats!:thumbsup:

Very nice still life, Michael.

Nice job Michael, what was your color palette for the apples?

Michele:

Tell your daughter, she made my whole day! :)

Beth:

Without doubt, my time with Bill was a life changing experience. I am so grateful that he took the time with me. I never lifted a brush in his presence, but watching him work and just being around him made so many things click in my head.

Mike:

The apples were done with cad red light, yellow ochre, raw umber, sap green, and white. I mixed a red row of values and painted the each apple and then added the ochre, umber, green and white wet into wet. I actually painted the apples in one pass which for me was a miracle!

My landscape paintings
 

Since this is the only "off subject" thread legitimately in this Portrait Forum, I thought I'd post my brand new, all landscape website at: http://www.Oilpnt.com/

Since Cynthia was so busy at the time, I asked Craig Butterworth to design this landscape web site for me and I think that he did a really nice job of it. I welcome feedback on this. Thanks.