Carol Lambert's First Friday Demo

Last Friday Carol did an all-day painting demonstration in the Upstairs Studio Gallery. This series of photos shows her step by step progress.

This is also the basic sequence she will guide you through in her weekend workshops on classical still life technique. There is still room in the workshops coming up on the next 2 weekends, and beginners are welcome. There are also classes planned in March, April, and May. Please contact her at info@carollambertarts.com if you are interested.

This is the set-up. These are funky found object, donated by friends. They just seemed to be comfortable together.


Here is the block-in for the composition.

At this stage Carol is figuring out the values, the darks and lights of the composition.

Now a bit of color comes into the picture. This is known as the "first color pass." The color is put on thinly, because more paint will go on top.


This is the painting at the end of the evening. Carol says it isn't quite finished, she wants to clean up a few details, but the painting is almost there!

Her classes take place at Upstairs Studio on Saturdays and Sundays, twice a month, through May.