Thursday, December 11, 2008

Cressida Campbell - Australia, born 1960











These are woodblock prints, not oil paintings, but great inspiration for composition and colour. Campbell studied woodblock printing in Japan. Her colours are spot on.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Ferdinand Bol, 1616 - 1680


Tetronella Elias with a basket of fruit
A combination of genres

Monday, November 17, 2008

Rauno Thomas Moss - Estonian


Composition Green 60 x 55

Liv Carson






Robert Hannaford - Australian,


Green Apple, 2007
This is a large painting

Friday, November 7, 2008

Elizabeth Kruger - Australian, 1955 -


90 x 120


Chrysanthemums, 90 x 90 cm


91 x 153 cm



90 x 90 cm


Oil on linen, 91 x 122 cm


oil on linen, 120 x 90 cm




Monday, October 27, 2008

Gerard van Spaendonck 1746 - 1822


Contrast of soft dark fruit and hard white stone ledge

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Will Wilson - USA


An Arrangement, 48 x 42 inches


12 x 11 inches, Oil on Linen


School of Fish, 18 x 30 in, Oil on canvas


24 x 32 inches


Thursday, October 16, 2008

Francois Seghers - Belgian


Still Life with Azaleas and Roses

Emilie Preyer


Eloise Harriet Stannard 1829 - 1915


A Wasp Resting on a Sprig of Victoria Plums, 1891


Still Life with Fruit and a Butterfly


Still Life Fruits Butterfly, 1898, 10 x 13

William Mason Brown


Peaches still life, 16 x 20

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Jules Larcher - French, 1849 -1920



36 x 29 inches

Jean Baptiste Robie - Belgian


20 x 15 in

George Hetzel - USA


Concord Grapes and Apples

Hovsep Pushman - USA


Thursday, October 9, 2008

Frances Fussel


White teaset at bottom balances white flowers above.
Australian artist.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Pedro Campos


81 x 116 cm, Oil
Interest is generated by the reflections in the sphere, and deciphering the writing.

Frederick Stone Batcheller


Orioles Among Apple Blossoms, 16 x 24 inches
Bordering on landscape genre.

Tadema


Still Life

Robert Spear Dunning - USA


An Arrangement of Fruit, 11 x 14 inches

Caravaggio


Charles Warren Mundy - USA, born 1945







Azaleas
All 24 x 30 inch canvases,
except for White Peonies 36 x 36 inches.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Dae Yeon Kim


64 x 35, oil, 2007

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

George Henry Hall (1885-1913).


Still Life With Peaches And Grapes, 18 x 14 inches
I love the suggestion of landscape in the background, and the spotlight effect.

Max Kuehne (1880-1968)


17 x 15 inches
An example of a modern composition in which the figure and background have an almost integrated texture.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Lisa Palombo


24 x 20

24 x 36