Turquoise Vase

Oil on Wood
8" x 10"

Orange Butterfly

Oil on Wood

6 x 8

SOLD

I thought this would be an easy piece, but it was surprisingly difficult. I had to make decisions about how symmetrical I wanted the butterfly to be, and the color choice for the background was difficult. Originally it was to have a pale beige background, but I changed it to this blue-green. I thought I made the butterfly small enough, but it still ended up stretching out almost to the edges, which will make framing difficult. It will need a frame that doesn't overlap. If I had it to do over, I would have made the butterfly much smaller.

Sardines

Oil on wood
6 x 8

I had a lot of fun painting these sardines. I love the metallic look of fish and tried to capture that, as well as the shine of the can. I was surprised when I opened the can, though: I have never eaten sardines, and thought that the heads would be on them!

White Pumpkins

Oil on wood panel

6 x 8

SOLD

Blue Glass

Oil on Canvas
8" x 10"

Glass Coffee Cup

Oil on Canvas
8" x 10"

Glass Coffee Cup

I forgot to take a photo of the initial block-in, I did it in burnt sienna with a little ultramarine blue. This is the first "real" color layer.

Blue Glass with Nectarine

Oil on Canvas
11" x 14"

I have one more canvas after this and then it's back to wood panels for me.

Blue Glass with Nectarine

I've added more color. Next I'll start getting nit-picky with details.

Blue Glass with Nectarine

 

I've blocked in the color, and now start adding in details. 

Two Blue Glasses

This is a small painting on canvas that I'm working on. I just love painting glass on mirrored surfaces, it's such a challenge for me! I don't know if I'm always successful with it, but someday...



I've also decided that I absolutely hate painting detailed pictures on canvas. I much prefer a hardboard surface. The canvas is just too smushy.

Blue Glass with Nectarine

11" x 14"
Oil on Canvas
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This is the first painting I've done on canvas in a long time. I must say that I prefer the harder surface of the wood (masonite). Canvas has too much spring for me, especially at this small size. It's harder to get details with canvas.

Colored Glass on Mirror

It's been ages since I've posted on this blog, but I finally finished this painting today. This is a quick photo of it that I took on the easel. Painting mirrors and reflective surfaces is very difficult for me, yet I feel drawn to it over and over. This piece really took me a long time and was a pretty ambitious project for me, so the next few paintings will be a little bit smaller. I do like painting larger pieces, though: I like the impact they have hanging on the wall and I like the more complex compositions that I'm able to work with.

Squash with Pine Cone

This is an older piece of mine, painted in a loose, colorful style.
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Mirrored Glass in Progress

Here's another in-progress shot. This is after the second pass of color.

Mirrored Glass

I have painted the first pass of color on the painting now. I usually try to go from broad strokes and large swaths of color to subsequently smaller and more detailed layers.

Mirrored Glass

This is a larger painting that I've started, it's 24" x 28". I really like doing larger paintings as opposed to the smaller ones with a single subject, composition and pattern is important to me and it's hard to convey that in a very small painting.

I spent a lot of time photographing the objects and rearranging them in the computer to come up with a composition that I liked. Sometimes I use photographs for composition and sometimes I do thumbnail and small sketches in my sketchbook to work out the composition.

Two Squash

Oil on Canvas
12" x 16"

Coffee Cup with Candy

Oil on Canvas
14" x 18"

Lime and Blue Glass

Oil on wood panel

12" x 16"

Squash Painting

Here is the finished painting. I'm pretty happy with it, though the lower right squash still bugs me a little. I want to wait for it to dry before I put it up for sale.

Squash Painting In Progress

I meant to take more progress pictures of this painting as I was working on it but I forgot, so the next picture will be the finished piece.

Red Onion

Oil on Canvas

10.5" x 16"

Yellow-Orange Squash

5" x 7"
Oil on Wood
SOLD

Squash Painting in Progress

This is a 16 x 20 painting that incorporates some of the squash that I had painted individually on a smaller scale. Since it won't be done as quickly as my small paintings, I thought I would post in-progress pictures.

Here I've toned the entire surface with burnt sienna, and have put some basic color on all the squashes. I normally work over the entire painting, but I'm concentrating on the squash themselves because some of them are starting to deteriorate and I want to get them done before they're unrecognizable.

Striped Green Squash

5 x 7
Oil on Wood Panel
SOLD

Green Squash

Oil on Wood Panel
5 x 7
SOLD