Daily Painting #34 – Cracked Egg No. 2
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Oil on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5 x 5 inches — 13 x 13 cm
This is the last egg painting for now. And here it is together with daily paintings #31 and #32:
Daily Painting #33 – Paradise in Blue Bottle
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Oil on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
Private Collection
The bird of paradise was difficult to paint, but, surprisingly, the blue bottle was quite easy. I have been putting off painting bottles and jars because I thought they would be too difficult to paint with all the reflections and highlights, but this blue bottle seemed to paint itself.
I’m thinking of a new composition for the bottle. I will paint it again, one of these days, as the featured subject.
Daily Painting #32 – Cracked Egg No. 1
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Oil on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5 x 5 inches — 13 x 13 cm
This is what happened to yesterday’s egg.
Daily Painting #31 – Egg
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Oil on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
Finally completed the first month of daily paintings — 31 oil paintings in 31 days!!
Thanks so much to everyone who commented and gave inspiration! I’d especially like to thank my Mom and brother, David, for giving me ideas and subjects to paint, for washing my brushes at 1 in the morning, and, most of all, for encouraging me to start this project to begin with.
Overall, it has been a very rewarding project and I’m looking forward to painting and blogging next month’s daily paintings!
Daily Painting #30 – Oil Portrait Study No. 1
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Oil on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5 x 7 inches — 13 x 18 cm
Private Collection
Apart from the occasional still life and landscape, portraits of people in pencil were mainly all I did before I joined the painting-a-day movement. This oil portrait is the first in the Daily Painting series. I am not very pleased with the result. I wasn’t able to pay much attention to details and, also, I wanted the colors to be livelier. Being my first portrait done in just about 6 hours, I guess, I’m not yet used to creating portraits in such a short period of time.
Daily Painting #29 – Still Life with Flower
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Oil on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5 x 5 inches — 13 x 13 cm
Something quite different today — I think this painting is more “contemporary” than all I’ve painted before.
Thank you for visiting my blog. My name is Faith Te and I am a painter from the Philippine Islands.
On June 20, 2009, I began creating small-sized daily paintings as a way to learn more about oil paints as well as to improve speed and skill. I started this blog to record and showcase these daily oil paintings.
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