8"x10"And another little sketch. Kids are so beautiful, and so much fun to paint :)
#1301
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Sketch if Cristina
8"x10" ovalSomething fun and fanciful of a beautiful little girl I know.... and I discovered I love oval canvases!
#1300
Friday, July 29, 2011
Marigold
4"x4"Summertime is a wonderful thing! And I love getting to create haloes around objects like this, it's so magical :)
#1299
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Avacado Half
4"x6"Back to that object-in-pale-space thing again... I like it. Something about how rounded it is... like it's going to sail away or something.
#1297
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Wolfsbane
12"x16"Told ya :)
The main change here was the surface the skull is sitting in- it's amazing how much of a difference that made!
#1296
Monday, July 25, 2011
Shell and Brown Glass
8"x8"Same as yesterday with the finished, not finished, finished again and much better now thing.... it'll be the same again tomorrow, I believe :) This one it was mostly the background that got reworked- you can really feel the light on it now, so that sensation is a lot stronger for the whole piece!
#1295
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Purple, Brown, and Bone
8"x8"Something that was finished, and then wasn't anymore, and now is- I refined the skull further, made it 'glow' a bit more, and added some character to the glass. I really like the overall kind of pyramid composition, though :)
#1294
Saturday, July 23, 2011
WIP - Isabella in White
This one is coming along a lot slower, and with a lot more detouring, but I am just in love with it!#1293
Friday, July 22, 2011
WIP- Green Water
Something fun... it's something that just kindof came up during a trip to the river, not something I visualized previously or anything, but I've been working on it a lottle while now.... it's nice, this one is just sort of falling off the brush :)
#1292
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Rounded
6"x6"An irresistably round little eggplant from the farmers' market.... aren't they just the most beautiful things ever? I particularly like the little curl of paler purple where you can see the cap moved around :D
#1290
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Silver Scissors
4"x4"Something else Nugget brought to me yesterday while I was puzzling over what to paint... how did my 21 month old angel get ahold of scissors, you ask? It's because she moonlights as a tiny monkey- always climbing, and full of mischief. Also, more than capable of dragging a chair across the house in order to reach something that looks interesting.
#1289
Monday, July 18, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Elmer's Glue
4"x4"Ok, so I'm having one of those days where I have absolutely no idea what to do for a daily.... and then Nugget found this. Something different, and it was fun to do :)
#1287
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Pear and the Moon
I don't know where this one came from... but that's one of the wonderful things about doing daily paintings, if you get something in your head that is outside of your usual fare, you can give it a shot :) Fun to paint, either way. I mean, who doesn't love painting pears?
#1285
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Out of the Shadows
6"x8"An experiment- I love how it came out, though! Very mysterious, but I still got to put some detail in on it....
#1284
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Peach Slice
4"x4"Yay for peaches being in season! I love living in the South, even if it is insanely hot and humid...
#1283
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Three Blueberries
4"x4"Three gorgeous blueberries that we picked ourselves from a local organic farm (Nice Berries Farm in Cedar Grove)... three out of the fifteen pounds or so we brought home. I think Nugget and I might actually turn into blueberries!
She is twenty one months old today, by the way... time goes by so fast.
She is twenty one months old today, by the way... time goes by so fast.
#1282
Monday, July 11, 2011
Heirloom Tomato on White
3"x6"Summertime in North Carolina is a beautiful thing... even if it is so hot and humid that it feels like you're swimming through a sauna every time you open the door. This tomato was delicious :)
#1281
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
Dandelion and Storm
8"x8"sold
I think this eye-level still life thing might be a good way to bring in my love of painting skyscapes... the trickiest part is getting the light to feel right, you know? And making sure the sky doesn't compete with the intended center of interest. It's always something :)
See the little dandelion seed blowing across the shelf?
#1278
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Row of Cherries
3"x6"I was so happy with this one when I finished it, but it just would not photograph properly..... gr. I saw some cherries in the grocery store looking just irresistible earlier, and I succumbed to temptation.
#1276
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Secrets of the Sea
12"x16"You can see it evoled some! I like the sand dollar a lot more than the marble, even though the marble is more typical for me... and the lock is locked now, of course. The angles just weren't working. What do you think?
#1275
Monday, July 4, 2011
Garlic Clove
2"x4"And a happy long weekend to everyone :) Be careful with the fireworks... unless you live near me, in which case the rain is keeping you from being outside blowing anything up. And I have to say, I'm grateful for it- it means that the four day screaming bottle rockets bender that has been going on in the neighborhood is finally over!
#1274
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Daisy
3"x6"Something simple and summery. You know my favorite part? That it is a flower Naomi picked for me :) My second favorite part is the way the yellow center makes such a nice reflection....
#1273
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Sand Dollar
4"x4"I'm so tickled with this one! About halfway through it I got to thinking that I might have seen a Duane Keiser piece that was uncomfortably similar to what I was doing, but after I got done I looked and I swear I couldn't find it... I hope I'm not infringing. Or maybe I just imagined it. Either way, it excited me to try and paint something so flat, laying flat on a flat surface, and still give it some depth :)
#1272
Friday, July 1, 2011
Green Acorn
2"x4"Happy Friday, everybody! And a long weekend coming up... even though my job is kind of every day. That's part of why it's so much fun, right?
#1271