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Laura and I bought some vintage canisters on ebay for me to use as painting and drawing subjects. We thought they would make a great image for Antique Recipe Roadshow. As soon as I got them, I put two of them on my kitchen counter and got out my watercolors. I often paint little watercolors of subjects I’ve never painted before just to get my first quick impression down.
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Next I tried a different canister in pastel, but I knew right away that the freshness of the pastel medium was not right for the old feeling of these dinged-up cans.
I did another pastel with more going on in the composition than just the cans. I liked the quality of the light, but I still felt that pastel was not right for this image.
In the end this painting with the more subtle qualities of oil paint captured the canisters best.
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Artist's Notebook
- by Nancy, November 11, 2007
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To Draw a Quince…
...first I sketched a lot of them quickly in watercolor from above, just to get the feel of their shape.
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On a brown cutting board their color really glowed, and I liked the intensely blue shadows but the background color was competing with them.
I liked them better against the neutral color and grid of my tiled kitchen counter, but watercolor still wasn't getting everything I loved about them.
It took my pastel chalks to really catch the way the light hits them. Now I long to see them in oil paint . . height="312" />
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