CRISPY CRUNCH

 

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OIL - 8x8" original oil painting on 3/4"deep panel, with sides painted. There is already a wire for hanging on the back of this piece. It's ready to hang!

Ya' gotta' love a crisp apple! Or two... or seven. Painting a high angle viewpoint is always cool. Thanks to Sarah Sedwick for the awesome photo reference. They're great to have when I'm painting early in the morning and I don't have any fruit in the house. ; )

SPRINGTIME CONFETTI

 

$140 

8x8" original oil painting on 1"deep gallery size canvas. 

Ya' can't go wrong with flowers. They are always a colourful joy. And they suit every room of the house! 

Painting has a wire backing on it and is ready to hang.

Here's how it looks on the wall... and a close up. Thanks for looking. : )

National Ice Cream Sandwich Day!

 

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$100 - 8x8" original oil painting on 1/8" panel

It's National Ice Cream Sandwich Day! (if it's raining where you are, don't let that stop you). 

myPAOTW - Bernardine Evaristo

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8x8" original oil painting on panel with 1"deep painted sides.

Here's my portrait of the beautiful colourful Bernardine Evaristo for the second week of the Portrait Artist of the Week Challenge. She's the writer of Girl, Woman, Other which won the Booker in 2019. SkyTV is continuing the Portrait Artist Challenge and now, everyone can join in on the fun every Sunday (uk time) over on Facebook. She sat staring at the computer and talking to the host for 4 hours (while thousands of people painted her), including this week's artist that skyTV chose. So... 3 screens happening for the show! So fun!

pepper pals

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8x8" original oil painting on 1" deep panel with painted sides.
I couldn't justify going shopping just to buy peppers for my still life so, I decided to make peppers out of Play-Doh! See pics below. ; )
Here's the sketch -

And here are my Play-Doh peppers. 

 I found free photo references of peppers on Pixabay and then changed the colours... of course.

It was wonderfully challenging to find the background colours in the glass bottles. The green bottle is one of my favourite still life objects.

 I may have gotten a little colour happy!!!

 Detail of the cutie-patootie peppers. 

 Until next time...

calm

$60 - 6x8" original gouache painting on grey paper

Update - this painting is hanging in a show for the month of February.

It was wonderful to paint from life today. 

Lately I've been working from photos (from the awesome app 'sktchy') and it's a great way to learn. Taking that information and applying it to painting a live model has been the best way for me to progress. Back and forth, from photos to life... so far it fits!

I think I caught the calmness of this fellow artist!

sunhat shadows

$200 - 8x8" original oil painting on 1" deep panel

Well, this girl was quite a challenge! I loved exploring the shadows falling over the top half of her face, and balancing it with the lights on her cheeks. Also, I worked with a green and purple palette which created some helpful guidelines. I'm very happy with her!

painted 1" deep sides

Paint Over!

SOLD -  8x8" original gouache painting.

This second picture is of an old watercolour painting. I didn't like the charcoal lines, the lost shapes in the flowers or the boring flat red of the strawberries. So, I painted over it with gouache, which was a pleasure since the drawing was all done for me! The flowers ended up pink... I keep getting a lot of pink in my gouache paintings. Not sure why. Oh, I guess I'm using too much red. Haha.