A Shoe

Here's a little shoe painting, Shoe 1, 6 x 8.

Sugar

Here's a little painting I have been laboring over.  It's another shadow picture, 10 x 8.  Sometimes it's time to just quit and start something else, so here it is for now.

Shadows

As January rolled around again this winter the early sun once again began to highlight the kitchen wall with interesting shadows where the pots hang. I couldn't resist doing another painting of the pots and their shadows.  Kitchen Shadows,  12 x 16. Last year's is below (sold).

Another tea picture

Another tea picture, Tea Again. 6 x 8. I decided to paint it again, but I had to change the tea- it was starting to "grow".

Tea Time

Another small painting, this one 9 x 12, Tea Time.

Copper Box

This is a small painting of things collected from around the house. The copper was tricky to paint with all the color reflections. Copper Box, 8 x 10.

SHELLS

Well, shells aren't so easy to paint. I'll have try them again but here's the first attempt. Shells, 6 x 8.

Travel-sized

Now that everyone has to put all their toiletries in small zip lock bags for airport security we seem to have a lot of these small bottles around. So I decided to paint some of them. This one is called Travel-Sized, 6 x 8.

The last of the tangerines.

This is the last of the tangerines - now we've eaten them all. This painting Bowl of Tangeines is 9 x 12. It's still drying - things dry so slowly in the winter.

Mini-Tangerines

A portrait of a few tangerines from the large box of Christmas tangerines that arrived here. 6 x 8 on a panel. It's going to take a while to eat them all.

Beach Rocks

A painting (6 x 8) of various rocks collected over the years at different beaches. The big gray one was from the Oregon coast, the smallest colored ones were from a Mexican beach. I wish I was on that beach right now - it's cold and snowy here, was around zero degrees this morning. Beach Rocks, 6 x 8, sold.

Barn and Mountains

Haven't really named this one yet. It's a relatively new painting, 16 x 8. Ended up calling it The Red Barn. Sold at Studio Tour 2011.

Nuts

It's been a million years since I put anything up - but well - it's been Christmas... I haven't given up painting, just working on larger things for a while. Haven't done any updates to the blog though.  Here's a new small one, Nuts, 6 x 8, sold.

Orange on Silk

Another painting on the scarf. This one is 6 x 8.

Apples on Silk

Here I stuck two apples on a silk scarf. I liked the variable colors on the scarf.  This one - 5 x 7.

Pumpkin

Here's a pumpkin painting from last week, 5 x 7. This is a small eating-type pumpkin destined for a future pie. (sold)

orange light

There's a big forest fire going on nearby and when the sky is really smoky the sun turns red and the light gets really orange resulting in interesting orange shadow effects. Here's a picture I took at the doorway.

Small Art

There's a new show at the Firehouse Art Center - all art is 11x14 or smaller. It's a very entertaining show with pieces of every media represented by a large group of artists from wax encaustic to painting, drawing, collage, whatever. I have three pieces in the show. Here are two of them. The show just comes down on Sept 2.

Another cantaloupe

Here's the last slice of that same cantaloupe. Maybe I'll eat it for lunch. It was an especially good cantaloupe. Some of them are pretty bland or picked too soon, but this one was at the peak of flavor. Cantaloupe 2, 5 x 7

Cantaloupe

In retrospect I wish I had set this up so more of the picture is in shadow.
 But it was fun to paint. Cantaloupe, 6 x 8

Watermelon

Here's a painting of the last pieces of a watermelon we recently ate- Watermelon, 6 x 8. Someone stole this painting from the gallery in 2015. So if you know who has it - they didn't buy it.

changed

This one was a painting I started last summer but there were things I didn't like. I recently worked on it some more so it's a bit different.  Big Valley, 9 x 12. (sold)

kitchen vegetables

Some more vegetables from the refrigerator...
Celery and Onion, 6 x 8.

BLUEBERRIES

Some blueberries from last night's dinner. I finished them off later after painting this.
 Blueberries,  5 x 7, sold.

Paper towels

A useful studio supply gets it's portrait done- an 8x6 painting

new pic

A random picture of my old paint box,  5 x 7

Peaches

Another 5 x 7 painting. I just realized I have been neglecting the summer fruits, so here's one with peaches.

Sitting Alone

I painted this one last night - 5 x 7. Meanwhile I am working on a new large painting but it's going to take a couple weeks to finish.

Apple & spoon

A new picture - 5 x 7.

another try

Things that are translucent - like light shining through the petals of a flower, or light coming through a yellow pepper are really hard to show. There are colors and ranges of light there that are way beyond the range of paint colors and intensity. It's really hard to make the flowers look right and not look like they might be plastic. So I thought it was worth another try on these tulips while I still have them blooming in the yard. Here's a pink one, 7 x 5.