Still-Life With a Tea Pot

Here's the first layer of paint for my latest still-life (detail). You can see the dead colour layer as well. I feel myself making a lot of progress with technique, and that's really making this much more enjoyable than previous paintings.

Staved off the Dry Spell

Same cup only now it has a green friend. The plan was to go into a large scale still-life with this cup but I wasn't loving the set up I had for it. It was too small and I think I want a more well thought out and aesthetically pleasing composition. But I needed to paint something in the meantime and I haven't painted a lime before plus it's an opportunity to get the cup looking more accurate than before. It's looking pretty dark now but I like to leave my lights for last and this layer has to dry so I can glaze and scumble in those lights. So give it a couple days and there should be some highlights on the lime at least.

In other news, I'm going to buy my French box easel very soon, and weather permitting, I should be doing landscapes sometime next week and I can't wait!