Elizabeth Robbins: Copper and PeachesElizabeth Robbins, formerly Elizabeth Pruitt, is one of today's rising stars in oil painting and has become very well known for her beautiful, classical style still life compositions in the last few years. She has received recognition from many prestigious painting groups, including the Oil Painters of America (Signature Status), the National Oil and Acrylics Painters Society (Best in Show), the C. M. Russell Invitational Exhibition (awarded the Tuffy

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capturing a summer scene at his former home in Brattleboro

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"Poppies and Cantaloupe" concentrates on showing you how to create an abstract design using transparent colors of the objects in the setup

she shows how to use these easy-to-understand techniques to build a solid value structure of the painting before applying color in thin layers of glazes

He builds his paintings with the strength of the pyramids on a foundation that is evident and strong from the first strokes

using real objects and the light from a window