Crafting Prizewinners
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How 'Still life with Chillies' was Crafted
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I have a large collection of enamel
objects and the chillies were grown by a friend. I set them all up under a spotlight
using some boxes to spread the objects.
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The board was coated with an Aluminium
Oxide surface which was then toned blue with gouache and the shapes blocked
in.
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The cloth was then added and some
of the shadows are starting to take shape. The board is very toothy so I start
of with hard pastels as the painting nears completion I use more soft pastel.
I don't need to use fixative since the surface has plenty of tooth.
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The strong reds of the chillies work
well with the coffee pot. I work all over the painting rather than finishing
one spot, although the temptation to add the highlights is hard to resist.
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OK so its not the same painting as
won the prize.What happened was that once it was set upand the painting half
completed, I liked the view from a slightly different angle so I turned my table
around a few degrees rearranged a few things and did a second painting, but
its the same technique. Hope you like it!
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