"Going somewhere"

All these small paintings have been so much fun to do. I keep sorting through all my pictures and coming up with more and more portraits of these roosters. I finally downloaded all 500 plus pictures on my camera to my computer! It's a little strange not to have any images on my memory card right now. It even says..."this card has no images". I guess having our Christmas dinner on there from last year was a hint to get busy with sorting them out!

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"Steppin' out"

The colors are a little washed out in the picture...the original is alot more vibrant..especially the blue water line in the background. I scanned these little oils on my scanner and I have also photographed them, I don't know which represents the pieces the best way. Everyone's monitor and computer settings are different as well..you can't win, but this way at least you can see the painting!

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"Cozy Collar"

As promised here is the first in my rooster series. I'll keep 'em coming for a while. They'll all have a buy it now button on the bottom of the posts. I took so many pictures of roosters and chickens this summer, that I have inspiration galore...the poor cluckers didn't stand a chance with me chasing them all around the farm yard...shooting them with my camera! No casualties though, now they're just captured forever on canvas!

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"Halloween prop"

In honor of Halloween I've painted a few pumpkin portraits. This is one of four. I'll post the other ones sometime soon. I've also been busy with roosters and will place a few of those on here as well. Just cleaning out my jars of odorless turpentine and removing the solids from the bottom and pouring off the clean turps from the top. Yuck! Then it's off to the hazardous waste dump to get rid of some of those jars!

Make it up

A fantasy pear...did this painting without an actual model in front of me. Makes you invent colors, shadows and shapes. This is 8"x6"...I find it freeing to sometimes paint with the imagination..we can become such a slave to our models, be it a still life, landscape, figure etc...so any and all spontaneity is lost, let go and just make it up..

"Cow Bella"

This was actually a study painting I did for a Different Strokes challenge when I first broke out the oils. I ended up posting my watercolor version, but actually quite like this one. It is created using a limited palette and the putty that I used in my first oil painting techniques class. I think I might still have the picture kicking around, so I could play with this image some more. I do have two more versions of this and might post those soon....

limited palette

This was also from the class I took with Tad Spurgeon (see previous post for a link to his website) and we had to work with a limited palette. Not my greatest effort, but I think I got the idea of the value lesson. I have yet to venture outside with my oils...so far I'm just a studio oil painter!

Class work

This rooster study was done during a class I took

last year at this time with Tad Spurgeon. Click on his

name to go to a section of his website where he talks

about color. His oil painting method is very interesting

and he is so into the chemical and technical aspects of the

medium. We worked with this "putty" that we used to cut

the pigments. It was a very unique and different way of

using the paint. If you have a chance go check it out.

"Sunny side"

A green pear today..I was just reading a cooking magazine

with all sorts of pear recipes for fall...a little chutney, some

pear cranberry bread...all lovely things to do with this lovely

fruit besides paint it!

"Primped"

SOLD

One of my earliest forays in oil exploration...I would like

to do more with the roosters and chickens. I've tackled

them quite a bit with watercolors, but feel they would do

well in oils, too...so many colors and attitudes..

Check back, there may be more here soon!

"Prime for Salsa"

SOLD

POW! In your face tomato portrait...I am scouring

the farmer's markets for new inspiration...watermelon

seems to be calling to me..there is alot of homegrown

food out there and it seems I've been eating tomatoes

at every meal...for breakfast on a toasted english muffin

with mayo, salt and coarsely ground black pepper! YUM!

"Perched on a plate"

I've been neglecting my oil posting duties lately...

I guess my focus has been my watercolors...getting

ready for a big solo show..have 22 paintings ready to

hang, but I don't know if they will all fit the room.

I guess better more than not enough! I'm thinking of

trying to find a space to show all these little oils..they

would make quite the statement all lined up on a wall

somewhere.

"Sundried Tomato"

Just off a full 5 day workshop week...one that I was taking

not teaching. It was incredible. I'll never look at the Vermont

landscape the same way again. It was an interesting class, because

we had a mix of mediums..some used oils, some watercolors and there

was even a lady who worked outside in collaged papers. A bit tricky

with the wind, but she did some really great stuff.

Now it's back to studio time.

"Ketchup blues"

I missed another posting last week...sorry, but here

is that willing tomato that posed so nicely for me. Subtle

color changes and that greenery really works for me.

I might delve in to the world of squashes and such, but

don't hold me to it...baby steps :) The produce is so

prolific at the farmers markets right now..an abundance

of choices for still lifes!

"Pear with tulip"

Another pear study..why do pears make it so easy..they

are great models, have such colorful flesh tones and sit so

nice and still for us :) Well I found a willing tomato who

wanted to give modelling a try, so I propped it up on the

still life stand and put the spot light on! Stay tuned for the

results of that session!