Oil Painting

Hi everyone!
It's quite some time since I updated my blog on this site as I've been busy designing jewellery items on my blue cottage jewellery blog  http://jill-bluecottage.blogspot.co.uk  but it really is about time I updated the activity on the painting front with my recent oil paintings.

Approaching Xmas I thought I'd do a couple of seasonal pictures with snowy scenes and one with a bunch of poppies in a vase. They seem to have been well received with offers from several people to purchase them and an invitation to join the Northern Artists.

I'm really pleased with the comments on Facebook about my first ever oil paintings; especially from Eunice Knott "stunning", Julie Nash "very nice work" , Janine Crook " I'd be interested in buying something like this Jill! It's really good! x" & Seddon Mary "This is a really good painting, well done!" and the 14 other comments. It is lovely to receive some positive comments and to be asked to paint some more for people to enjoy.

1.   This one is my favourite because of the colours and the scene. I love  
      walking the dogs through the woods especially when it's snowy.   
      This painting reminds me of the time we went to Finland in December with
      the thick snow, the clear starry sky and the serenity all around.

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2.    I thought I would do a daytime snow scene too to experiment with the different colours needed to do this. One of my favourite times of the day when doing photography is the golden hour - that hour when the sun goes down but before everything goes totally dark. I tried to capture this hour in the painting and I'm pleased with my first attempt. It seems to have been very well received by the Northern Artists & my Facebook fans with one person offering to buy it.

 

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 3. This is my first ever try at painting any flowers in oils. I'm pleased with the 

  overall result and the use of turquoise in the leaves - which I did wonder

  about  - but the idea seems to have received great comments.

 

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If you like my work and would like to discuss a commision or a copy of one of the images you like, then contact me please on my blog e-mail:

jill@sunflowerdesigns.co.uk