The Game

I started with a basic sketch on a toned canvas.

I add some gray to the background.

I start to work on some of the base colors.

I work on the figure and the wine bottle.

I add a window to the background and more detail to the figure.

The Game

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The Game
6x8
oil painting on canvas mounted on a museum quality panel ready to frame.

Media: oil painting

Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)

Price: $100 USD

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Your Guide to Stress Free Oil Painting

Art by Delilah

How I did this painting:

I like to start with a tinted canvas because I do some scrumbling in my painting so it's nice to have an interesting color in the under painting.

Scumbling / Glazing is a method of applying very thin layers to the painting. It is effective for very smooth gradations, and also for adjusting dried layers. It can be used to great advantage to manipulate the reflective or absorptive light qualities inherent in pigments.Scumbling and Glazing are transparent painting techniques.

I draw a lose sketch of my main objects and shapes.

I add color to the backgroud and the dark shadows.

The nice thing about oils is that you build the color from darks to lights and if something doesn't work out just scrape it off and continue.

I keep working on the bird. I want to develop it nice round shape.

I start adding the feather to the at little bird. There is  a lot of value to painting the same subject in many different ways. You start to think what it is about the subject that you really like.Why is it that you paint this.

I add the high lights to the eye of the bird. I use a paper clip that I have stighten and put a big dot of paint on the tip and just touch the eye of the bird. I find it easier to use a paper clip then a brush when I need just a touch of color.

As I finish up I add a loose feather in the foreground. I add a few seeds and a string for the little bird to build a nest with.

The finished painting has been done with just a few colors and I kept it very simple for nice stress free painting.

Nest Builder

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Nest Builder
7x5
oil painting on canvas mounted on a museum quality panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 5 in X 7 in (12.7 cm X 17.8 cm)

Price: $100 USD

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Valentine Painting

Art By Delilah

Be Mine

5x7

oil

Be Mine,chubby birds

About This Painting: My chubby birds are in love, maybe it's time to make a nest, for now they will share a branch and make those eyes.

Be Mine
5x7 oil painitng on canvas mounted on a museum quality panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)

Price: $120 USD

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The Seated Figure

The Seated Figure

About This Painting:Painting the figure can be challenging but using the surrounding "architecture" can help to accurately and more easily place the figure within the scene. It is much like a puzzle with all the lines intersecting to create shapes. Find the simple, large shapes first.This was a challenge of the week at DPW.

The Seated Figure
5x7
oil painting

Media: oil painting

Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)

Price: $100 USD

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