With atrocious weather, mix of snow and rain, it was more opportunity for doing still life inside the condo. Here are mixed nuts in a tupperware, there were cashews, almonds, spicy peanuts, pistachios, and hazelnuts, all salted. I made most of the outlines first with a paintbrush, then filled in the shapes and surrounding areas, follwoed by texturing. Its tempting to start with pen or pencil for complex things, but it ruins the edge effects. If pen and pencil are visible in a watercolour, then technically speaking, its called 'mixed media'.
Mixed nuts, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, December 2025
This old chinese food container is filled with bag ties and elastics intermingled. I first painted the outlines of most of the bag ties, leaving gaps for ooverlaps, then worked in the coloured elastics. Adding pale shadows and dark spots, along with additional detailing helped create the effect. To get a bag tie out of the pile requires chop sticks.
Bag ties elastics, watercolour 4 x 7.5" cold press, December 2025
Finnaly, here is a handful of old defunct keys, although one of them opens my parents front door. I wont say which ones in case somebody tries to copy it off my painting. Like, my painting is so hyper realistic you could make a copy of the key! Just looking at it now, and some of the keys actually look hyper realistic, like the bottom left around the key ring, I really got the metallic glare and reflections. I suppose all the still life practice is paying off. I did a set on '
shiny things' awhile back, and the famous '
tomato with sunglasses' more recently.
Keys, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, December 2025
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