One Painting a Day

6"x6" nfs We never see to have clouds like this around here, but some came through today! I am a huge, huge fan of Ambera Wellman...

6"x6" sold A portrait of a sheep at the Museum of Life and Science- Naomi and I have started going every week, and she really lov...

6"x6" sold My mother suggested jacks as a logical compliment to my marbles, and so I thought I'd try out a study of one... wa...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard available Does anyone know why Dioxine Purple gives me such glare issues? Carbon Black does the same thing... gr...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold #937

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold I'm so sorry about the delay on these! I was having camera-loading issues... it turned out to be the co...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard nfs #936

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold This feels alarmingly spacious for being such a small skecth- I don't usually do landscapes, I just can...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard sold This is more of a lost and found edges sort of piece, trying to get the lemon to really jump out at you but...

6x8 acrylic on canvsboard nfs I was looking through some old paintings of Duane Keiser's and saw a wonderful piece he did, all about th...

6"x8" acrylic on canvasboard nfs Essentially a portrait of one of the eggplants... the fact that the cap was that rich purple rea...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard sold This is kind of a funny one, I guess- the idea was to paint the two eggplants like two people, head and sho...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold I really wanted to think up a clever title for this one, but failed utterly. Maybe it's the whole 2 a.m...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard sold 'nother garlic on blue. And yet it doesn't feel old, you know? Maybe because I left more of the pap...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard sold What was I saying about reflections, again? Just kidding :) But that was fun, and the halo of white around ...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard nfs More tomatoes, more restricted palette stuff... and my new light-colored reflective surface. I'm enjoyin...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard nfs This little one was so cute I just had to play around a bit, find the angle that made it look the most upbea...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard sold Same mango, different colors, different day. So much fun! I really love how the mango itself jumps out beca...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard nfs And a mango, admiring its own reflection :D I was complaining to myself that I don't much like eating the...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold My eighteenth egg... and the first one with a reflection like this. I used the same dark reflective surface...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold Pretty, pretty.... wish I had the nerve to try and paint it once it's cracked open, though! I will one ...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold ... or at least the purchasing part ought to work- I think etsy may be on the fritz at the moment, but I c...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard nfs Yellow again, but set against brown instead of blue this time... and with some glass thrown in for good meas...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold I believe this is my first ever painting of an onion, and I am totally digging it, especially against that ...

markers on vellum nfs and Naomi watching the crowds. She was there all three days with me, and did wonderful! She liked the music, of course...

chalk and colored pencil on toned paper nfs and one of the boys. the light that made it past his hat and into his beard was just irresistib...

charcoal, chalk, and colored pencil on toned paper nfs the Eno during the Festival is a bit of a sketchers paradise- strong lighting, obvio...

graphite on vellum nfs I loved the way the sunlight struck her hair, and the wonderful way her open mouth and long, graceful nose came toge...

marker on vellum nfs because of her interesting hair- doesn't it make the most beautiful shapes? #914

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold Wow, I can't believe it's July already! Madness.... supposed to be absolutely gorgeous weather this...

6x6 acrylic on panel sold Here I just splashed the Phthalo Blue around abstractly, and then kind of designed a subject to fit it... beautif...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard sold Ok, now it's new stuff! This is a study for a larger painting I'm doing, absolutely gorgeous so far...

5x7 acrylic on panel nfs Um.... I was wrong. I was flipping through some old dailies, and this one was so intriguing I just had to bring it...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard sold This might be the last of my repaintings for a little while.... we'll see. I definitely want to have so...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold Didn't the colors come out wild on this one? Happy! It's more work with the loose/splashy/painterly...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold Continuing with the reworking, and still really enjoying it :) And realizing that, yet again, my post will ...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold Fun :) I really enjoyed painting this one the first time but it felt a little.... flat. So I went through t...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard collection of Natasha Marcuard This on is way, way out of my comfort zone, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. This one...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard nfs I realized I hadn't done any peaches this summer, and that's practically tradition at this point :) ...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard nfs Pretty, pretty marble. It's a subject I love anyways, but I really had fun playing up the feeling of lig...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard sold Continuing with the looser, drippy, splashy backgrounds, obviously, and also continuing with the strong sha...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold I have decided that the single most important factor in making an image feel really three dimensional is to...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold Dude. Post number 900. So I'm painting some pretty flowers to celebrate! And let me tell you, carnation...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard nfs Ok, last view of the pond for a while, I promise , I just couldn't resist this one :) All about the halo...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard sold The same pond, the same palette, different light situation :)

6"x8" acrylic on canvas board sold This limited palette thing is kind of fun! I mean, it's not a permanent thing- I love bein...

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard I got some callas at the farmers market this past weekend, and they have been keeping me company in the studio. ...

6x6 acrylic on canvasboard Same restrictions as yesterday, but today's subject is a beatiful marble made by Iron Mountain Glass- somehow...