A 5x7 canvas panel oil painting showing a red onion with torn skin, allowing a look at the purple flesh beneath. The onion is also sliced by a knife in one quadrant. Next to the onion is a yellow bell pepper. The composition is completed by three cherry tomatoes. 5 hours over two afternoons.
Onion & Pepper
5x7 inch oil on canvas panel
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Here's my latest. Much love and thanks to @ashleigh_kimberly (on IG) for her help on this one.
Luis Fernandez - Disillusionment
2025
Oil on canvas, 48" x 36"
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On the left is a tutorial landscape reference photo from Chris Fortunado's (Paint Coach) Fundamentals of Oilpainting course. On the right is my 9x12 canvas panel oil painting. At this stage I have completed the SIMPLIFY step of Paint Coach's Method.
Working on a #paintcoach landscape tutorial. I have completed the SIMPLIFY step of Paint Coach's three step Method, but the house is far too tall. Still trying to do some more practice exercises and paintings, before returning to my own originals.
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Study of a lemon. Part of the online Paint Coach Fundamentals of Oil Painting course.
First time "completing" the lemon. I saw several things off about the shape, and going with planes defined as "wedges" instead of "shapes of light" did not work as well as I had hoped.
So I went directly on top and started redefining the planes with wrap around brush strokes.
My second attempt is MUCH closer to the Paint Coach modeled tutorial painting.
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The saga of the Lemon Tutorial
Other than two other small studies, this is my first landscape painting. I am following along with Paint Coach's Method of Oil Painting course. It is a scene from Italy with a small vineyard nestled between a hill and s small but dense forest next to a pond. The reflection of the trees radiates across the water of the shallow pond.
Here, I was testing out lightening the leaves on the front plane of the most light toward tree. I think it was a good instinct, but I lost the correct value and overdid it. The front tree, instead if shimmering in the sun looks more like a christmas tree.
This second study was just about capturing shapes and values on a small landscape with an oversized brush. The pallet was Ultramarine Blue, Alzarian Crimson, Cadmium Lemon and Titanium White.
The study shows a little red house beyond a fence in disrepair next to s pond beneath a shade tree. Mountains rise beyond a growing field behind what could even be a barn nestled at the end if a field.
Today I worked on some landscape studies. I have backed off of my own work to take some stock in my classes, my progress, and where I feel like I need some more fundamental practice.
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Lee painting a model of a still life, painting from life instead of a photo. Most of the other students worked on a picture from home. The still life from this side is two bottles, sunflowers, an old coffee pot, and a couple of pears.
Lee's 2 hour final painting.
My painting just after blocking in simple shapes.
My final oil painting for my first live art class. 2 hours from still life model, no photo.
Had my final Basics of Oil Painting class on Wednesday night. Two of us were brave enough to tackle the "live model" still life.
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A painting inspired by the still life portion of Chris Forza's "Paint Coach Method of Oil Painting course. Painting depicts a wooden bucket of apples that has been knocked over on a table allowing three apples to roll out. One is still deep in the bucket. This is the first full practice of The Method. SIMPLIFY. SHAPE. SHARPEN. This is the second of my Paint Coach paintings. If you've been following along the sunflowers 18x24 was also from one of his courses. I'm impressed with my growth in terms of speed after taking my Mesa Center for the Arts class. This painting was much easier for me to keep up with the video class, than the previous. Much less pausing than Sunflowers.
Today's oilpainting
Cider House Rules
9x12 " oil on canvas
Approx 6 hours brushtime
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Dem Apples
5x7" oil on canvas
December 2025
11 hours brushtime
Had been painting approximately 2 weeks.
Pears on Black Velvet
5x7" oil on canvas
February 2026
4 hours. 1 sitting.
I took the reference photo in a homemade shadowbox. It features a red pear, a Bartlett, and a Bosch pear on black velvet before a textured reddish brown cloth background. The painting is an oil on 5x7 inch canvas panel. I used Ultramarine Blue, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Titanium White, Cadmium Red Deep and Light, Cadmium Green Light, Sap Green, and Lamp Black. I attempted the front where the velvet folds by tapping in texture of both Titanium White and Lamp Black with a mop brush.
Today's oil painting.
4 hour session
Pears on Velvet
5x7" oil on canvas panel
February 2026
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A sphere I painted on about my fifth day painting. This sphere is better than all of my pearls from class. But this practice took me three hours.
I think here is where I went wrong. The yellow Ochre color is on the shadow side of the reverse highlight. It is misplaced on the highlight side.
Lady next to me had a much easier time rendering her pearls
This is how far I got on my string of pearls in 3 hours. You can tell I was nowhere near as precise in the way I played in color, and blending once again, got out of control. I do like where I was headed with the gem.
Class pushes me. A lot of it is in preparation: time spent on the drawing maybe. But Im very careful, not slow, not methodical, but precise. Class forces me to rush to keep up.
Just finished 5/8 weeks. Nothing I do in class is as good as what I do at home.
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Sunflowers and Coffee 18x24" (Jan 26) Brittle Winter 8x10" (Feb 26) Cosmic Cowboy 11x14" (Feb 26) Desert Fragility 9x12" (Jan 26) Lynch: Cadmium Red Deep 5x7" (Dec 25) Dem Apples 5x7" (Dec 25) Please register at www.ryanclarkcreates Website launches soon.
I have been painting for 3 months today. Purchased first art materials, ever, and started my painting journey on November 22, 2025.
Here are my 6 paintings, all oil on canvas or canvas panel
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If you have been following along with #cosmiccowboy, here is a video trying to capture it sans glares. I'm not calling it done, but I'm iffy of my current ability to escalate it.
Fifth Painting
Cosmic Cowboy
9x12 inch oil on canvas panel
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This is a picture from Mesa Arts Center this week. Fifth week, and we were working on clouds. The reference picture is in the TV at the back of the photo. My clouds started off in dark purples and blues. This is before getting blending-itis
After I went to town with a big mop style blending brush I was left with cotton candy puffs with no shape. I have a tendency to think of class as practice time, but Im always disappointed when I don't have more of a completed piece at the end. Especially these last two weeks.
Reference picture of a nebula that I am using for the face of my "Cosmic Cowboy" painting in progress. The actual nebula is bright with bright white and yellow before fading into oranges, magenta and blues that swirl outward like a cosmic hurricane.
My actual nebula looks a lot more like flames spiraling outward. I do like the blues and white as it fades and curls to the bottom. This is a 5x7 inch canvas panel. The dimensions of the Cowboy face are slightly smaller. I think, if I had kept the nebula smaller in scale, this was very close to what I'm going for.
This week at Mesa Arts Center we worked on clouds. I felt like I started out well, but just got blend happy. At home, I've been trying to improve on cosmic nebula and stars. This was the first practice on canvas working out what will be the face of #cosmiccowboy
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Still life of a brittle dried leaf in a painted salt cylinder on a baby blue table with a deep Ultramarine Blue and Lamp Black background. Pre Glaze.
Cadmium Yellow glaze
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples. Stephen Crane, Open Boat
Today in the studio I mixed up a lightly pigmented Cadmium Yellow Glaze to apply to the leaf. I'm hoping for the glaze to brighten the lights, deepen the darks. Then, because I'm aging in an Open Boat in corporate America, I continued painting some rocks to throw.
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Welcome 🌸Please Follow🌸 “Free Flow 1” I used the new Trex inks and these colors were meant to be together. What do you think? #gold #ink #art #fluidart #artoftheday #inkart #abstract #abstractart #alcoholinkart #beautiful #arizonaartist #arizona #alcoholinkpainting #alcoholink #painting
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Welcome 🌸Please Follow🌸 “Draped in Stardust” working with the new Trex inks and I used the shimmer on the blue wings of the butterfly the berry color is gorgeous #butterfly #ink #art #fluidart #artoftheday #inkart #abstract #alcoholinkart #arizonaartist #alcoholinkpainting #alcoholink #painting
