oil painting – Clara Niniewski

Dancing Colours (Celebrating Mazowsze Dancers)

I am happy to finally share with you my new painting celebrating traditional Polish folk dance: Dancing Colours.

Painting with Fred Crayk

As we are about to enter a second lockdown in England, I am taking a look back at my Summer project with Fred Crayk at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art.

Resolute

2019, oil on stretched canvas, 30 x 40 cm

2019, oil on stretched canvas, 30 x 40 cm [sold] Using a limited palette of primary colours, this oil portrait focuses on the Spanish girl’s red dress matching the red background and her distant gaze. The red of the dress and background allude to the woman’s youth, vitality and determination, in spite of her seaminglyContinue reading “Girl In A Red Dress”

Three studies of Woman with a Braid (Portrait Triptych)

2019, Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 cm Woman with a braid’s head study triptych painted with a limited palette of Earth colours: English light red, yellow ochre, ultramarine and titanium white.

Three studies of Kam (Portrait Triptych)

2019, Oil on canvas, 21 x 30 cm Man’s head study triptych painted with a limited palette of primaries: ultramarine blue, cadmium red, cadmium yellow and titanium white.