Giant Grapefruit

I found this giant grapefruit at the store so I decided to paint it.
This one is 6 x 8.

Pear and Lemon

Another 6 x 8 inch painting.

Tape & Glue

Tape & Glue, 7 x 5.5

Reclining Pear

A reclining pear, 5 x 7

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Dried Grass

Dried Grass - 7 x 5.

tucson show

My picture was sold - makes me happy. Now I don't have to deal with having it shipped back. Hope it finds a good home. (see this for a picture of it)

tapes

After wrapping presents I started thinking about all the tapes and ribbons. This one is  a little bigger, 8 x 10.

Scissors

I was busy wrapping presents and scissors seemed like a good topic to paint. 5 x 7.

Black Cup

This one is 5 x 7. It features a Christmas apple - we got a box of apples as a gift. Now I have plenty of apples to choose from before they get eaten one by one.

The Square Glass

6 x 8 oil on board.

Pasilla Pepper

Pasilla pepper, 6 x 8.

Blue Cup

This one is 6 x 8.

White Mug

7 x 5.5, oil on panel.

Cut Pear

5.5 x 7 on panel.

The White Cup

On 5.5 x 7 panel.

Peeled Orange

The peeled orange, 6 x 8. Just redid the photo of this one - the other one was bad.

Hooray

Sold a picture!  The one from the Artists of Colorado Exhibit sold today on the last day of the show - which is really good because the weather and roads are vile and I didn't want to have to go down and pick it up today.  Riverbed, 20 x 26.

Lemon & Blocks

6 x 8, oil on panel.

In and Out

In and Out, 6 x 8. I have decided that apples are way easier to paint than yellow peppers. Maybe because there is a bigger range of values?

A new picture finally

Thanksgiving is over, travelling done, guests gone so I have time to paint again. Here's the newest.  Three apples, 6 x 8.

Blocked

Blocked, 6 x 8.

Trio

This one - 6 x 8

Tomato on a plate

Tomato on a plate, 7 x 5.5, oil on board.

Tomatoes and dish

THis one also 5.5 x 7

Parsnip

One of my parsnips, 5.5 x 7.

Pears 3

The pears got too ripe - we had to eat them. So this is last of the pears for a while, 5.5 x 7.

Pear 2

Another pear, 5.5 x 7. Have run out of 6 x 8 boards temporarily and have cut up my 11 x 14 boards into 4 pieces.

Pear 1

Okay, so the book says to do 100 small paintings of one thing, one a day or so, and the author/artist suggests pears as a topic (because they are not just round but have various plane changes), so here goes. This one is 5.5 x 7.

Small paintings

I have been trying to work on smaller paintings, trying to do several a week, as advocated by a book I am reading. But it also seems to be a big trendy thing these days all over the art blogosphere  to produce at least one small painting a day - hard to accomplish with a busy schedule but I am trying to do them when I can. I've done a bunch of 6 x 8 's and they are slowly improving.  Here's a recent new smaller painting - (not one of the really small ones - this one is 16 x 20)  Red Cliffs, oil.
Here's an amazing one-painting-a-day artist, an expert in painting fruits and vegetables:
http://carolmarine.blogspot.com/

Mountain Oyster Club Show

My painting "Oxbows" was accepted into the Mountain Oyster Club annual show in Tucson. This is a show I have never entered before- exciting to be in something new.
To see the whole exhibition go to the Mountain Oyster website:
http://www.mountainoysterclub.com/index.php?page=gallery