Category Archives: Still life

Sugarlift Gallery: “Still: A Survey of Contemporary Still Life Paintings”

Hi everyone, I am participating in a show in Chelsea, New York with Sugarlift gallery for the show “Still: A Survey of Contemporary Still Life Paintings”.

Underpainting

Here’s a quick post to share what my underpaintings usually look like. Sometimes I go pretty tight and detailed but mostly I’m keeping this stage fairly loose.

Still Life Paintings Available

I currently have 2 still life paintings available at The Framing Place and Gallery in Huntsville, Ontario. I love painting still life; they are one of my favourite genres to paint. I really like how you can imply the presence of someone without actually showing them.

The Country Life

Sunflowers, 18 x 20, oil on linen, 2013 copyright © Mark Reeder This arrangement of sunflowers in an old milk jug on an old table I found is a relatively normal occurance around here. Taking a break from working in the garden, I usually like to put something like this together to bring a little beauty […]

What’s new in the studio.

“Sexy Rexy” is a type of rose. Not too many roses do that well this far north but this species, now in it’s second year in my garden, seems to be growing very nicely. I think part of the reason why I love gardening so much is that opportunity to use freshly cut flowers as […]

Learning from the Old Masters – part 1

Sketches, studies and reproductions I’ve made over the years. In many ways I would have to consider myself self taught, although I’m not a big fan of that way of thinking, especially considering the fact that if one is paying attention, there are teachers everywhere. Since I have no formal training much of my education […]

Some older work

One of my good clients brought this piece by for a coat of varnish during a visit to pick up another painting not too long ago. It was nice to see one of my older paintings again, especially after I lost a lot of work when my computer crashed a while back. It’s also good […]

Painting in the garden

This is a quick painting I did of daisies I grew in my garden. I really love gardening and a big part of the reason or motive behind creating and exploring the kind of flowers I choose is also with the intention to paint them. In essence I want to create an environment in and […]

Still life in the studio

Daffodils, 24 x 31, oil on linen, 2009 © Mark Reeder. Turquoise still life, oil on linen, 2009 © Mark Reeder. Here are a few still life paintings I’ve done recently, had quite a bit of fun working on these. I really like the idea in the first one showing a subject for a painting […]