99 paintings of bottles of beer – Beer 5: Redback

The fifth painting in my 99 bottles of beer series, finally an Australian beer!

This time it's Redback, from Matilda Bay Brewery here in Perth, Western Australia

Back up to ten colours again, although the Old Holland Burnt Umber wasn't necessary and I don't think I used the LeFranc Transparent Indian Orange for anything except a little bit on the bottom on the crinkled paper bag.

Strewth, bloody 93 to go...
Cheers mate!

99 paintings of bottles of beer – Beer 4: Beck’s

Beer number 4 in my 99 paintings of bottles of beer series - Beck's.

Beck's is the world's best selling German beer, sold in nearly 90 countries.

From Wikipedia :
Beck's Brewery is a German brewery in the northern German city of Bremen and the Beck's logo, a silver key on a red shield, is the mirror image of the coat of arms of Bremen. The first German beer company to use green bottles.

Woohoo I cut it back down to 9 colours for this one, I managed to get rid of the oranges for this painting as the beer is a light cloudy yellow.
I'm going to run out of Genuine Viridian very quickly if I keep painting green bottles...

95 to go!
Prost!

99 paintings of bottles of beer – Beer 3: Grolsch

The third painting in my 99 paintings of bottles of beer series !
This one is Grolsch :

From Wikipedia:
The Grolsch brewery was founded in 1615 in Groenlo. The town of Groenlo was then known as Grolle, hence the name Grolsch, meaning 'of Grolle'. Grolsch is best known for its 5% abv pale lager, Grolsch Premium Pilsner.

In the last beer painting I said I need to cut the number of colours down, so ofcourse I did the opposite - I squeezed out 13 for this one, oops.
The standout was the little sample tube of Williamsburg Viridian, wow, there goes my bank balance - what a paint (and what a price ..).

There's also a sample tube of Gamblin "Green gold" in there, I used that for the bottom half "full" bit of the beer bottle, first time I've used Gamblin, a bit transparent but I suppose this colour is supposed to be.

I don't like pilsner at all, and it was warm after I finished painting it, still not a bad beer and interesting that it was very orange compared to the last two.

96 to go ....
Proost!

99 paintings of bottles of beer – Beer 2: Sapporo

The second painting in my 99 bottles of beer series - Sapporo!

Sapporo is the oldest brand of beer in Japan.

I've added a "Beer paintings" tag, if you click that you can view all of them in a row without all the other stuff from the blog

From Wikipedia :
Sapporo Breweries Limited is a Japanese brewery founded in 1876. It was first brewed in Sapporo, Japan in 1876 by the German-trained brewer Seibei Nakagawa.
Their world headquarters are in Ebisu, Shibuya, Tokyo and I've been there, sugoi!

Below are the colours used for this one - similar to the last painting but I added Old Holland Red Umber, Grumbacher Quinacridone Orange and Michael Harding Transparent Red Oxide

Kampai !!

99 paintings of bottles of beer – Beer 1: Corona

I've started a new project, this one is going to take a while - 99 paintings of different beer bottles.
Here's the first one - Corona.

I'm attempting to do each of these paintings in one sitting, below is the setup with the old shadow box

Below are the colours used for this one for those of you interested :

Lukas 1862 - Titanium white
Michael Harding - Ivory Black
LeFranc - Transparent Indian Orange
Maimeri - Trinacria Orange
Maimeri - Red Earth
Old Holland - Raw Sienna Light
Old Holland - Yellow Ochre Burnt
Williamsburg - Alizarin Orange

Salud!

 

3 small fruit still life paintings

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I'm doing a little experiment - I've just listed these three paintings for sale on eBay as 7 day auctions, very interested to see the response.

These three little ones are all painted on primed Tasmanian Oak panels, I like the smoothness of the primed surface married with the woodgrain - it gives an interesting bounce and texture to the way the brush handles.

Edit - All three are SOLD!!

Fremantle night scene

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A recently completed night street scene of the main cappucino strip in Fremantle, the lovely little port city where I currently have my art studio:

A painting of Market street in Fremantle at night

'Market street at night'

40x60cm, oil on linen

Here's some progress shots, so many hours go into these street scenes and after all the layering and detail I never really know if it's finished - I can always add more people, more detail, more interest but have to learn when to stop with a painting and move on to the next one!

Market street at night painting progress shot
A progress photo of Market street at night painting