Still Life: Paintings

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Still Life with Plate of Pears and Oranges
Oil on Linen
100x 60cm
39.4x23.6 inches
Nov 2012



Still Life with Plates of Fruits and Green Bottle
Oil on Linen
90x73cm
35.4x28.7 inches
Sept-Oct 2012



Still Life with Plates of Fruits:
Apples and Oranges
Oil on Linen
90x73cm
35.4x28.7 inches
Sept-Oct 2012

Still life with Apples and Oranges
65x50 cm
25.6x19.7 inches
Oil on Linen
May 2012

Still life with Oranges-II
68x58 cm approx.
26.8x22.8 inches
(Painted edge to edge of the canvas)
Oil on Linen
18 May 2012

Still Life with Blue Vase, Apples & Lemons
Oil on Linen
62x52 cm approx.
24.4x20.5 inches
(Painted edge to edge of the canvas)
2012

Still Life with Blue Vase & Oranges
Oil on Linen
23.2x23.2 Inches
58x58cm approx.
(Painted edge to edge of the canvas)

28 June 2012

Still Life with Vase, Baigun & Lemons
Oil on Linen
52x44 cm
20.5x17.3 inches
2012

Still Life with Baigan
Oil on Linen
20x15 cm
7.9x5.9 inches
2011

Yellow Flowers with Vase
54x40 cm
21.3x15.7 Inches
Oil on Linen
2010-2012

Baigun
Oil on Linen
5.9x5.9 inches
15x15cm
27 May 2011

Irises-2
Oil on Linen
21x17cm
8.25x6.5 inches
27 May 2011

Irises
Oil on Linen
23x15cm
9.1x5.9 inches
26 May 2011

Yellow Flowers in Vase
Oil on Linen
41cm x 33cm
16.1x13 inches
2007
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Yellow Flowers In Basket /Zonkile
Oil on Canvas
38cm x 38cm
15x15 inches
Oct. 2006






Lilacs in White Vase
Oil on Linen
70cmx40 cm
27.6x15.7 inches
Year: 2007



Zonkile-Daffodils / Margaretki
Acrylic on Canvas
38.2cm x 45.4cm
Dec. 2006

White Roses In Vase
Oil on Canvas
38cm x 38cm
Dec. 2006

Roses In Vase-2 / Pink Roses in Blue Vase, India
Oil on Canvas
38cm x 38cm
Sept. 2006

Roses In Vase / Pink Roses II  
Oil on Canvas  
38x38cm
Nov. 2006

Study of Small Roses in Vase
Oil on Canvas
45.7x38.1cm
18x15 inches
April 2008

Pink Roses /Pink Roses India  
Oil on Canvas  
46cm x 51cm  
Sept. 2006

Flowers In Vase-2 /Flowers in Vase I 
Oil on Canvas 
46x51 cm 
Nov. 2006





Flowers In Vase-3 / Flowers in Vase II 
Oil on Canvas  
46cm x 51cm
Nov. 2006

Marigolds In Vase / Marigolds
Oil on Canvas  
46.5cm x 51cm
2006

White Flowers and Lilacs
Oil on Linen
33cm x 27cm
2007

Apples and Lily of the Valley
Oil on Linen
33cm x 24cm
2007

Wild Summer Flowers In Vase
Oil on Linen
40x40cm
15.5x15.5 inches
Year 2007






Boots
Oil Charcoal on Paper
2010



Boots
Oil Charcoal on Paper
2010

Boots
Oil Charcoal on Paper
2010

Boots
Oil Charcoal on Paper
2010

Boats
Oil Charcoal on Paper
2010



Orange Flowers In Vase / Orange Flowers 
Oil on Canvas
38cm x 38cm  Dec. 2006






Vase of Flowers
Oil on Canvas
2006
Not Available

Oils in 9x9cm by Hiroshi Matsumoto

9x9 painting (9 cm x 9 cm / app. 4 x 4 inch) by Hiroshi Matsumoto

I stumbled across Hiroshi Matsumoto's Oils on Facebook* and am so happy to see someone painting so well, in Oils in a 9x9 painting (9 cm x 9 cm / app. 4 x 4 inch).

I too love oils and paint mostly in small sizes too...
But unfortunately in my home country (India) artists and collectors have completely forgotten the charm of oils and small sized works. The awareness is lacking. Acrylic has taken over.. and it's ugly colours are everywhere!!

Painting in large size is order of the day. Now size is everything as it fetches more money to the artists... and as for the buyer he is too happy to boast of a large work in his office or drawing room walls?!!

I have written about this in my blogs... But this trend continues... No one has the time to look at a painting anymore.

Oils have just vanished from contemporary Indian Art!! Just visit any online Indian art galleries and you will see Acrylic ruling the roost!!

Acrylic is a quick drying synthetic plastic paint.. and paintings can be executed within hours and sold the very next moment... Flushed with new found money the buyers and the painters both are in a frantic hurry. Unfortunately an acrylic (painting) can never have the quality of an Oil...

Acrylic is a flat, unnatural, muddy, dirty, and difficult to mix... fast drying colour.. there is no lustre, no hues.. Most often the painting can look lifeless, flat, 'hard', 'dirty' especially if applied in thin coats with lots of water. I used to paint in Acrylics too.. but I would use it directly from the tube in thick impasto.... it works OK in small sizes.. as one can work on it quickly without getting dry.. but when you try that on larger size work.. even the thick paint will dry off even before you had chance to think what your next stroke or colour should be or want to mix with other colures to creat a hue etc.!!

My humble wish and urge to Art lovers across the world..(and more so to my fellow Indians) please look at Oils, and at Acrylic.. you don't need prior knowledge or training... to spot the difference!! So before buying and investing your precious funds into Art... Take some time to look at the quality of the colours of the works. If no contemporary artists are around to look for works in Oils in India (!!!) maybe one can visit Museums. There were Indian artists till about 1990 who used oils... It is no co-incidence that the art boom in India in the early 2000 and the mass productions of paintings (Art?) in Acrylic happened at the same time!!

A well executed small sized painting in Oil can look like a 'Jewellery Box'... it can have that shimmering quality. Hiroshi's oils surely has that shimmering, translucent quality!!

As painter Hiroshi Matsumoto says:

"I love oil paint, it’s texture, viscosity, slow-drying time and smell...

I never know what it is going to be until it's complete."
 
you can see his works here:
 
http://www.hiroshimatsumoto.com/
 
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Some Paintings Do Have A Story...

Wheat Harvest, Early Summer Noida Villages, India 

Oil on Canvas, 38.5cm x 38.5cm, April 2008. Sold

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Some paintings do have a story...
And this one sure does have one!

It was my first of series of paintings I did in plein air just before the wheat harvest, in fields along Yumuna river in Noida (UP) India.

I went in with my painting equipments et al in the late afternoon ...as in this region the April sun can be very strong early on.. I found the wheat just the right colour.. whitish yellow, ripen..and the plant golden yellow.

Finding a spot I went about starting my work... Working in oils is always messy and complicated and doing it outdoors can be sometimes tormenting!!
I was quite happy this painting came out well... Some don't and then there is a struggle to make it well, and I hate that moment - when the painting is not getting the right look!! Thus immersed in work, trying to finish the painting, I noticed a small girl standing close to my elbow... she blurted out a startled "Hello!!" I realised on the road next to the fields a big black car has quietly stopped by... Next to it her, almost behind my back were here parents. All ogling at the canvas...

Crowds, passerby coming up and asking questions is part of plein air adventure.. unless it's the police or the military, which can be sometimes complicated!!

When I smiled at them, the usual conversation followed...

"Wow! lovely!! You just did that...? We saw you when going towards our farmhouse an hour back... you paint so fast, do you sell? etc etc".

They went away promising to come over to my studio and buying... (which of course they never did!!)

By the time I cleaned all the brushes, palette and packed up, it was dark and I dumped all paints, oils, easels into the back seat and only the wet painting in the dicky of the car- the boot of a car... The biggest problem of oil is to bring back 'wet painting' home safely... My work is thick impasto, with fresh colours like a relief.. a kind of a torte!! One little touch or getting rubbed softly, brushed by anything as gentle as the end of your skirt or your shirt sleeves will completely ruin it...

I kept the wet canvas on the floor of the car dicky.

Which I generally keep empty for wet paintings.

On the way home I stopped by for some tea at my friend's small tea shop next to the fields. Back home I didn't want to open the boot/dicky in the dark and bring out the wet canvas and carry it up three floors... So left it to do so the next day. Rest of my painting gear lies always in the car.

Next day I had some work in the day in Delhi so I left in my car and after finishing my work I drove straight back to the Noida fields... I started a new work as soon as I reached without even taking out the wet one done last evening..so that once done I can lineup the two works and compare and also do the last minute touch ups..

So once done with the second painting I went to my car to open the dicky/boot... and what I saw broke my heart!! In the night I hadn't realised the existence of an old stupid empty plastic bottle!! Which had been using the wet canvas as a dance floor...

So here it was, a finished work had a worthless plastic bottle rolling all over it the whole time I was driving on bumpy roads...

Many of my works are very spontaneous and I don't rub and repaint over and over. I like the strokes to show... And here all those lovely thick layers of colour impasto were all smothered!!  It had never happened before in this scale, though it does happen.

I don't like to sit on a work which I have once finished...

Anyway with a dogged determination I went about recreating. At the end though I doubt anybody can make out that this painting had a makeover?!! Can you?

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