Glass Bottles, a still life in watercolours

Still life of the bottles, arranged in the Hangar kitchen...

 

Last week we painted these bottles as a still life, and/or from a wonderful photo, made by Martine, to work from...

I am proud, lots of good things happened, discoveries were made. Unfortunately  I had a bad-photo-day, so most of the works shown here are actually much better in real life... 

But still, here they are, in random order. Enjoy!

Janine painted this one in loose style. The bottle on the foreground makes the composition interesting and  enhances the perspective, while in the second, fast version, is just so playful!

Apologies to Geneviève for this photo that doesn't do her painting justice. But still you can see that it is fabulous! Very delicate, transparent and with beautiful highlights and so well done....

Martine took the gorgeous picture we based this project on. Her painting is a colourful interpretation with a very good balance between warm and cold. 

Shirley created an impressionist still life, using the example but with a lot of her own 'sauce' . I love her style

Corinne built her own still lives, and created a very tasteful one first, after which she painted another version with bright fantasy colours, using the transparency indicators from the first one. Looking fab!

Anna made this super colourful and very transparent, loose version. So well done!

Michele painted this impressive transparent and subtle version 'remote'. She must have been thinking of the sun in the South and in Bretagne I guess, and somehow it trickled into this painting...

This watercolour by Thecla has a sturdiness in how the bottles really stand on the surface. They are transparent and also very much 'there'. The background is fantastic!

Other impressive paintings were made as well:

Anna Karin's happy family! The photo has come out a bit 'cold', the actual painting is very warm

Sylvie has a talent for these monochrome portraits! Clients are lining up for them, no kidding! The subtlety and transparency of the watercolours give them something extra. Cool stuff!

As you may have noticed lately, Judith is in the middle of a whole different project: to 'catch' her favourite model and paint him fast with a resemblance to him or an aspect of him. That is super difficult and (I quote) 'not yet there but the process is fantastic and learning a lot'. I look forward to seeing more like this!!

Martine's group is now finished and definitely worth a mention, there is so much in this painting, there is a lot of interaction, adventure, rest, and it is clearly in a foreign area, The people look natural and their poses are very real. Well done you.

Last in, but by no means least, this painting that Jutta started on Tuesday yet finished at home inspired by  Friday Fish-day😀Just kidding - but they look so good and their colours are fabulous and fresh, with a good shine and lovely composition.