{"id":5394,"date":"2018-11-25T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2021-04-18T16:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T23:11:32","slug":"still-lifes-between-old-and-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/?p=5394","title":{"rendered":"Still Lifes Between Old and New"},"content":{"rendered":"
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12 x16 Sunflowers and Fruit Oil Painting by Winifred<\/p><\/div>\n

There will be more portraits to come for sure, but I also want to share with you some still life paintings I’ve been  creating.  They may look a little different and I have created this look intentionally.  I wanted to create still lifes that make me feel what I feel when I look at some of the “masters”.  There are certain, hues, textures and values which give their work a distinctively “non modern” look. <\/p>\n

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12×12 Still Life “Bounty” by Winifred Whitfield
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I am aiming to create a look somewhere between old and new.  To do this has required me to refine my own oils, a long and complex learning curve to this –  rather than using commercially refined oils. Refining my own oil gives me thicker, faster drying, less to non yellowing oil.   I make my linen panels (so time consuming), in order to have a nubbier less commercially smooth linen panel. I create hand made paint, by grinding my hand refined oil into powdered pigments I purchase which created a different paint texture. I have about 30 tubes of this paint now – and a sore wrist.  I make medium to mix with my paint, all non toxic, using chalk, marble dust or calcite, oil  and other ingredients, which adds thickness, translucency and stability to the paint. I get more color saturation and increase my ability to work in layers, wet into wet with out muddying the paint because the paint is thicker and more sequestering. <\/p>\n

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8×10 Fruit with Blue Plate by Winifred<\/p><\/div>\n

All of these processes are very time consuming  to make but there was something within me that wanted a grasp of my products and how I could  manipulate them to alter the look and texture of a painting. Many times during the process, studying and creating these products, I have asked myself why I can’t be content with product I could order from the internet – but I just can not – so I just have to live with myself and the added time and effort!!<\/p>\n

I do enjoy, for sure, the results I’m getting.  It is definitely a different look from what I was creating with commercial products and I am just getting started!! Thank you for your time. Winifred<\/p>\n

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