White Cup With Cherries

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6" x 6" Oil on Gesso Panel

With the price of produce this was an expensive still life........the cherries were $6.99 a pound! These babies need to last a few days. I love the blue green with the red orange .......

White Cup with Cherries

6"x6" Oil on Panel

This is the block in with a burnt sienna base. I love the glow with the complements (orange & blue). Alizarin Crimson is a wonderful transparent red, but it takes a long time to dry. I started this yesterday, still wasn't dry this morning.

Orange I

6"x6" Oil on Panel

Since I was in the citrus mood, I decided to paint orange slices on a plate. I just love this plate it came with a little cup, which is also square. I love the abstract element in this one. Plus the wonderful reflection in the shadow on the plate.

Lemon III

6"x6" Oil On Panel

This is the last one in the series, the lemons are looking so bad! Also I didn't want to spend $1.99 for 3!!!!!! I love the reflections on the B&W Tile....it really was a learning experience...I had to use black paint and the yellow/orange keep getting muddy.....

Lemon Retro

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6x6 Oil on Panel

This is the second in this series! They are looking pretty bad!!! I think I've figured out how to do the photographs. I have spent the last 3 days working on it.......

Lemon Dots

6x6 Oil on Panel

Today is Monday!!!! New Subject!!!! I went to the produce stand yesterday but everything look really bad, but I found these two Lemons in the produce tray in my frig....so I guess they are going to be the subject for the week.

Vidalia Onion on Blue & Brown V

6 x 6 oil on Panel

The is the 5th, yea! yea! I was starting to get a little tired of the onion.....trying to create another set up with the same old onion was getting to be a real challenge!!! Of course this is my favorite.....the fabric is a place mat.....the wonder contrast of brown & blue plus the two different patterns makes the composition more interesting .......I'm still working on the photography....urg!!!

Vidalia Onion On Blue IV

6x6 oil on Panel

This is the 4th in my Vidalia Series.......I painted it yesterday morning but forgot to take a photograph........the blue & white background is a piece of fabric from my trip to Minnesota....found a wonderful store with lots of fabric.....I love the excitement that a piece of fabric can create in a still life. Since my last trip to Italy a couple of years ago, when I got to spend the day in a small museum with Bonnard & Matisse......it was about color and pattern.....I knew after that day I would be forever effect by pattern in my paintings.

Vidalia Onion on Black & White III

6" x 6" Oil on Panel

This is the 3rd in my weekly series of the Vidalia Onion.....what a fun subject. I think the series is the best way to go to get the practice. I still have to get a better way of photographing the painting.....

Vidalia Onion

6x6 on gesso panel

I'm doing a series on painting the onion and the skin.....it's a fun one! Only 3 more to go! This one is a little too red, so I will go over it with a glaze of Burnt Sienna. I have my last class in the morning at the Beach Art Center...........

Vidalia Onion Drawing

6x6 on Gesso Panel

I tinted the board with a light violet mix. Sketch the drawing in a burnt sienna.

Vidalia Onion

The is the photograph of the onion.......I placed it on glass so I would get the reflection that the glass creates.....

Vidalia Sweet

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It's so good to be home! Nothing like painting in your own space......Of course no fresh fruit in the house, but you can always paint a vegetable. I'm still trying to find the right spot to shoot the photograph......I think I'm going to have to try to make a light box.......

Back Home

I made it back to Florida, my mother is doing better.....it will take some time to get over the surgery......as we get older our bodies don't heal quite as fast. I have one more class this week at the Beach Art Center. My plan today is to get things back in order, so I can start getting the new web site www.adailypaintersgallery.com up and running. This will be a group web site with a few painting friends. I will post more on this later in the week.

Orange Peel

6x6 on Gesso Board

I finished this yesterday evening......I don't know about these water mixable oils!!!! Of course I don't have cadmium red......It's a about traveling on airplanes, so I want to get used to them...they are so much easier to clean up, plus the turp thing is not healthy~!

Monday Morning

The workshop was great fun!! Meet new friends, and got to see a few old ones. Haven't had much time to paint, but hope to get a few in this week.

Green & Orange

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6x6 Oil on Gesso Board
I had fun with this one! Painted it in my Wednesday Class with Judy & Larry Pumfrey oil Class at Indian Rocks Beach Art Center. I leave today for Minnesota to teach a 3 day workshop in watercolors......of course I'm taking my "New Water Soluble Oils". I also will be visiting my Mother in West Virginia......she's recovering from surgery. This will be my week to work on my new website "A Daily Painters Gallery". I also will be working on my new"eBay Store" where I will be posting my small daily paintings for sale! Check back for an update!105

Sunny Morning

6x6 Oil on Gesso Board

This was painted from a photograph that I took a couple of weeks ago. It was one of those bright perfect spring days in Florida. 104

Tomoato Slices

6 x 6 Oil on Canvas
I did this one while set up at the Art Market a couple of weeks ago. The wind blew it into the dirt!! So I had to scrape it, let it dry and re paint.....I still need to work on taking the photographs, this one really has great color.....I have a light box in Ohio, so I think I'm going to have to make one here!!

Gardenia

6x6 Oil on Canvas Board

One of the best things in Florida during the Spring is the Gardenia Bushes.....they smell soooo good! Of course when I started this one the sun was just right, well with in 10 minutes, by the time I had the drawing....it was gone! I did several wipe offs, plus several others, but these are the only two that are worth posting!!!! Maybe someday I will get this Plein Air Thing!!!!

North Beach Palms

6x6 On Gesso Board
This is one of the plein air painting during Paint the Town.

St. Pete Paint the Town

Yesterday started the St. Pete Paint the Town Plein Air Event. Judy, Larry and I spent the day painting at North Beach and Salt Creek. I will post a few paintings from the event on Sunday.........It was one of those perfect days in Florida!

100 Painting Yea yea Yea yea!!!!

Just thought I was getting close to painting 100 paintings since I started blogging, February 26, 2007. I can't believe I made it!!!!!!

I'm going to celebrate and go to the BEACH today!!!!!!!

Maine Boats Watercolor

11 x 14.5 on Watercolor Paper

I worked on this one yesterday & this morning. My students at the Beach Art Center wanted to do a landscape, but as most of them know I HATE landscape. So this was a compromise! It seems a little blue, but watercolors are soooooo hard to photograph. The water and the rocks are more gray.

White cup with Tomato Slice

6x6 on Gesso Board

I painted this one at the St. Pete Artist Market on Saturday, the first one I painted was tomatoes slices on green, but the wind blew and it ended up in the dirt. I did scrape some of it off, so maybe later today I can salvage it. I just love the Gessoed Board, you can move paint around and see the brush strokes.........I think this surface maybe my favorite.

Orange Slices

5x7 on Gesso Board

I started this one on Tuesday morning, but finished it today. I've been playing around with the slick gesso board, it give you more texture, but sometimes it's hard to get the paint to stay on. I like the way it looks once the paint is dry.......I ordered about a dozen of canvas board and gesso board, so I'm sure I will know when all are painted.

Red Peppers

6x6 Oil on Canvas Board
I had these peppers left over from the Pumfrey's workshop this past weekend. The big one looks red but it's actually bright orange. I still have to work on getting a good photograph.

Three Green Apples

6x6 Oil on Canvas Board

This is other small Plein Air painting I did at the Pumfrey's Workshop. There is a wonderful color reflection on objects when painting outside. You do get some reflection from indoor spot lights, but it's nothing like the out door reflection.

Pear in Pink

6x6 Oil on Canvas Board

My friend Chris Smith is here from Ohio, she came down again this year to take the workshop with Judy & Larry Pumfrey......she has to go back home today. We painted yesterday in the studio, lots of fun.

Judy's White Cup

6 x 6 Oil on Gesso Board

This was number 4, after I wiped off the first 3........I did this outside in Plein Air. Boy could you see the reflections. I was going to wipe it off because I wasn't happy with the lip of the cup, but Judy took it!!!!