Early experimentations.

Finding a style isn't quite easy. Few years ago I experimented with using painting knives.

I used the-cheaper-than-usual brand of oil for this piece. Turned out better than I had expected. The painting was done few months before the painting in the previous post, And I can definitely tell that the quality of the painting differs greatly with cheap and expensive oils, not just with the colors, but it is also quite noticeable with impasto.

I also had it framed to keep it as a memory.

Framed.

One of the few paintings I had bother to get framed. About 2-3 year old paintings, that just happened to pop out of storage when we were cleaning.

A Painting of Me

Oil on Canvas 16 x 20 in.

Self-portrait. 

Still Life

Oil on Canvas 24 x 36

Yes, sunflowers again.

This is another painting done exclusively with painting knives, biggest i've done so far . It does not have a single brush stroke, except the signature maybe. This one took a while to finish, not sure how long, i began painting this back in Dec. 2012. The progress was quite slow because i was only spending a few hours a day or every 3 days.

Might take a while for me to do another painting with the exlusive use of painting knives, they are too expensive to do.

Sunflowers

Oil on Canvas 12x16 in.

I painted this in mid 2012, i was fascinated with the idea of the sole use of painting knives. I did not use any brush at all. I'm happy with the outcome, but i think i can do better.

The wonderful thing about exclusively using painting knives is that the colors are as intense as they were from the tube.

Unfinished Still Life

Oil on Canvas 12x16 in.

My first official post.


I was rearranging old canvases in my room and i found this. This is a painting i did in our garage 2 years ago, i only remember that i tried doing it in one sitting.