Swirl

8x8"

10" I think

oil as always

Rising

12" square

oil on board

Running West

and a small study that I did first.

6 x 6"

Some recent paintings.

oil on board 

various sizes

I have been painting lately but I haven't posted them on the blog.  I had a little coffee shop show to put up by the first of October and found that I didn't have any stock. Frantic painting ensued and I got enough to meagerly fill the walls. Nine or ten paintings I think.  So glad that's over! These several are ones I've done since then. 

Like Marmalade

6x6" approx.

Chunks of oranges thinking about a possible future. They didn't make it to jam.  I ate them. Bwaa hahaha!

Margaret

6x6"

Singular

6x6"

Are they daisies or black-eyed Susans? They are for sure the last good ones of the season. The rest aren't worth picking. The garden is fading.  fall seems a little early this year.

Artificial

6x6 oil on masonite

238 Bird practice

6x6" oil on masonite

I found another bird figurine at an antique shop. Normally they seem to want upwards of $5-7.00 for such things, which I think is outrageous. but this one had a chip on off the beak, which doesn't bother me since I'm just going to use it as a model, so it was priced at 75 cents. Better still I think my mom had one like it when I was growing up.

Anyway, this is a practice board, a great way to learn how to paint complex objects. The size of the board is 6x6" as you already know, and I subdivide it into 3x3' quadrants. Each quadrant contains a single 10 minute exercise in capturing the subjects' likeness. This method really reduces the stress of painting. Which is great as I can get a little stressy about things. Thanks to Carol Marine for introducing me to this exercise.

I love my practice boards. I can't imagine anyone wanting them, but I also can't imagine selling them.

237 Summer

8 x 8" 

oil on masonite

 Bonsai

12 x 12" oil on masonite

I've been looking at the work of Jan Devliegher. 

He did a series of paintings of plates call "Treasury".  Each painting is about 5' tall. Impressive!

And the brushwork is divine. I'll keep his work in mind and try my own version later.

I liked this one enough to post, but on enough to offer it for sale. 

Also, these blues are scanning a little "hot". It's not this bright in person.