Still Life Workshop

I participated in a workshop focusing on still life with Qiang Huang about a week ago. He is not only an artist but also a scientist which made him very sequential and analytical in his approach to painting. His results are painterly and lovely, but his process and thoughtfulness were quite precise. We did a rather traditional approach with a monochromatic underpainting and then the traditional lean to thick application of our oil paint. It was a fun four days. All of the students had their own still life set ups to work from. Qiang made observations and suggestions but never painted on our work, which can be an issue at times. He did some nice demo paintings. These are the paintings I completed. They are all 11x14 on stretched canvas, except the White Rose which is on an 8x10 gessoed board.