oil Archives - Liza Visagie

New Release. Black Boots.

LizaVisagie — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:03:48 +0000

The post New Release. Black Boots. appeared first on Liza Visagie.

Upcoming Exhibition

LizaVisagie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:12:52 +0000

Alpoa Invite. A Little Piece Of Africa. Gallery Invite.

A Little piece of Africa

If you find yourself in Berlin this summer, go and see some of my paintings in a group show at artSpace Berlin.
Alpoa “A little piece of Africa” is showing from 17 July – 19 September 2009.
artSPACE Berlin is the sister gallery of artSPACE Durban. The gallery is committed to showcasing artist who have direct links to Africa, with a focus on promoting contemporary African Art.

The post Upcoming Exhibition appeared first on Liza Visagie.

Tips of the Trade

LizaVisagie — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:13:04 +0000

Temperature oil on linen 25 x 29.5

It is almost summer and a great time for visiting your local market to get some interesting fruit and vegetables to paint. It is always advisable to use a Alla Prima technique when painting objects such a fruit, veggies and flowers, as their life-span is short. Depending on the technique and mediums used, sometimes you have to learn to improvise when painting a still-life.

While painting “Temperature” I decided in advance to build up the surface quality of the fruit over a period of time to achieve the waxy and fleshy texture of the mangoes. I used stand oil to get the viscosity of the paint just right. Stand oil takes longer to dry than linseed oil, but gives a wonderful glass like sheen to the paint while adding to a thicker look. Using a bit of cold wax medium in selective areas added to the difference of surface from mat to sheen, which on close inspection these mangoes have.

The tablecloth was painted in a radically different way, more impressionistic, dry and dense. This added to the optical illusion of the sheen on the mangoes and wooden plate. When replacing objects because they change color and start to decay, try not to “chase” the shape. Keep the initial shape and only adjust the color, tones and surface appearance.

The people at the market must have thought that I was nuts and really hungry because I had to look at each mango carefully to try and get a similar replacement every other day but I sure had some great mango smoothies while painting this still life.

The post Tips of the Trade appeared first on Liza Visagie.

The Tropics. Work In Progress Video

LizaVisagie — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:56:46 +0000

The Tropics Progress Movie

The Tropics. Work in Progress
Click on the image or above link to watch this short demonstration video and learn how “The Tropics” was painted.

The post The Tropics. Work In Progress Video appeared first on Liza Visagie.

New Release. The Tropics

LizaVisagie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:16:25 +0000

Oil on Linen. 65 inches x 82 inches

Based on a recent trip to Hawaii, this painting, “The Tropics” hopes to bring some colour and light into the grand design. This is the first in a series of paintings of the tropics. Here are some artist I mentally checked in with while painting: Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, John Singer Sargent’s watercolours of Florida, Mark Rothko as a reminder for future work, Josef Albers ideas around “Interaction of Color” and my attempt in trying to disprove Aldous Huxley theory of “On the absence of Painters in the Tropics”

The post New Release. The Tropics appeared first on Liza Visagie.

Buttercup Fields

LizaVisagie — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:49:24 +0000

Oil on Linen. 6.50 inches x 8.50 inches

“Late Spring Orchard”
A week before at this location the trees were in bloom and now these buttercup flowers appeared almost overnight. My paint application and approach was soft when painting the blinding vibrancy of the cadmium yellow buttercups in the orchard. Too strong of an approach would have taken away form the overall poetry of this perfect scene.

The post Buttercup Fields appeared first on Liza Visagie.

Junction. A Travel Log.

LizaVisagie — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:09:38 +0000

This recent painting, Junction, is the first in a series of paintings based on abandoned and semi-abandoned places found on the outskirts of often overlooked places. Be them real, imagined, cut and pasted into memory they are formulated and derived from the inadequacies of visual memory, creating a distilled sense of surrealism.

Junction, or otherwise named after, Giraffe Junction, is a pit stop on the way to Timbavati in Southern Africa. It is a step in the right direction.

The post Junction. A Travel Log. appeared first on Liza Visagie.