My first oil painting

35x25cm oil on canvas. It is my first oil painting and first still life

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Comment by Ningning Li on May 8, 2012 at 11:17: You are so nice, Rita. Yes, you are right, we all have to learn a lot. It is a life long procedure. You know, In our workshop, there are some of artists have painted for 20years. They paint so well . But they still keep up learnning new things. Even Richard still tearning defferent techniques. They are the people will paint better and better. I want to be one of them. We learn from each other. Waiting to see your new work soon.

Comment by Riya on May 8, 2012 at 8:14: Hello Li, Why are you so hard for yourself? Your paintings are great, I wish my first paintings were as half as good as yours. This is a beautiful painting and I love the droplets, they look so real. I paint just a few years and still have to learn a lot, and I can learn a lot from your paintings.

Comment by Ningning Li on April 26, 2012 at 3:31: Thank you Pauline. I am so happy it pleased you.

Comment by Pauline Le Merle on April 26, 2012 at 2:50: This painting is lovely Li, I feel like i could bite into each and every one of the fruits....the apples are definately crunchy ones!......You paint very well, i love the water droplets....

Comment by Ningning Li on February 1, 2012 at 16:30: I found it. so impressing. How patient she is! Wondful work! thanks Staurt. And also I have to tell you that I am very much appreciate your time to inform me what you know about other courses. I will go to have a look.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on February 1, 2012 at 4:45: Li, it's Deb Hill and her grape paintings are there if you click on her photos. Stu

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on February 1, 2012 at 4:42: Li, don't be so hard on yourself; your paintings are not ugly. The only ugly painting is a blank canvas. Go ahead and post anything you want or send it as an attachment to a message, and I'll be happy to look at it. But I am not Richard, so both of us need to learn more from him. I also paint paintings that I do not like. What I do sometimes is try to analyze what is wrong with my painting and then paint the same subject again, but now I correct the problems rather than just trying to fix the painting. Sometimes the problem is just little minor things that are easy to fix with a few brushstrokes once you see them. I have been doing another online set of courses through WetCanvas (it is an artists' forum run by F&W Media (they publish The Artist's Magazine and Southwest Art and run NorthLight Books). The instructor is Johannes Vloothuis and he is very good. His next course starts in 2 weeks and it is free to watch and you can buy the dowloads later if you like it. It is a 3 Saturday course on painting waterfalls. Go to his website and sign up if you are interested. I have learned a lot from him. www.improvemypaintings.com is the website. Quite a few artists on this site have been taking courses with him including Xiao Li, Susie Gregory, Vida Evenson, Hazel Persson, Dors Aronson and Barbara Sawyer. Stu

Comment by Ningning Li on February 1, 2012 at 4:35: Stuart, I can not find Deb Hills in our members when I check this name.Then I went ot photos, there are 276pages photos I looked for 12pages then gave up.

Comment by Ningning Li on February 1, 2012 at 4:27: Stuart, my husband said that you are an angel to come down to help people. Thank you so much! Do you want to see my urgly paintings? Can we play here by put on whatever we painted? Dose Richard have enough space for us to play just for fun in this web ?

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on February 1, 2012 at 3:37: Li, a grape is just a small apple (or better yet, a small plum). If you want to see some fabulous grapes, look at Deb Hills posted picture on this site. Grapes are just spheres, and will have a translucency to them where the light hits. Be careful to set up a single light source like Richard teaches. I made a light box, but you can just take a cardboard box and paint the inside black with black gesso or acrylic paint and then use construction paper to get the background and table top colors that you want. Just buy some grapes of different colors and practice painting them in clusters an singly. Even in your first oil painting above, you rendered your fruits beautifully; yes, your composition could improve by clustering them into a more interesting grouping, but you can work that out easily now. I don't do many still lifes any more, but I have painted grapes before. These exercises are very good for all of us because Richard is teaching us to be better observers of what we see and to paint from life. I do like all of the paintings you just posted, they are all well done. Stu