#309 Pear on a Dish

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Took me a few days to get to another pear painting, but I finally finished it yesterday.  I set up the composition last Friday and did a quick value study and underpainting on Sunday.  Then I tackled the color while my daughter was playing at a friend's house Monday.  Lately I've had a hard time getting the motivation to paint in evenings.  I think some of it is that I'm still coming out of a winter slump.  Some of it is just that I'm tired...go figure!

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#304 Dishes and Lemons

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It's been so long since I posted.  I've had a lot going on.  Plus the weather has been so gray and rainy, which is not motivating at all!  This was painted a few weeks ago.  I liked trying to capture the warm light.  

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#301 Golden Opportunity

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I love the color of these opal apples.

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#299 The Yellow Cup

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Painted for this week's DPW Challenge, "The Cups Challenge".  I like the saturated colors of the cup and the orange.  I always like turquoise glass :)

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#293 All in the Family

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These bottles were all sitting on a shelf together in my studio.  They caught my eye and a painting was born!

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#292 Freshly Squeezed

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It was my husband's idea to paint a glass of orange juice.  I had a totally different composition in my mind initially that was going to have a white background, but it wasn't working out too well.  So I changed it up and went darker.  I still hope to do another orange juice painting in a higher key soon.  I tried the reflective surface again, too.  The background is a little more blue than this photo shows.  You can tell that better in the second picture.  

quick value study I did for the painting

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#291 High Key Resolution

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Once again I'm posting paintings out of order.  I painted this little piece last night for the Daily Paintworks Challenge to paint about a New Year resolution.  I don't really have a resolution for art this year but I would like to experiment more with high key pieces.  Probably could have gone higher but this one was a fun, quick study.  I also want to experiment more with figurative work this year and plein air painting!  

5x5 inch oil on Arches Paper.  Paintings on Arches can be framed behind glass.

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#286 Oranges on Pink

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I can't believe I still haven't posted the three paintings I did at the Sarah Sedwick workshop I took in October.  I learned so much while I was there.  It also helped me experiment more with painting on canvas and I've been enjoying that a lot.  She is a fantastic teacher.  I'm so thankful that she teaches in OKC somewhat regularly (will be back in 2018)!  I highly recommend taking a workshop from her if you have the chance.  

Here is a picture of it framed with a frame built by my husband.  Isn't he talented?  

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#285 Unlikely Friends

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Second painting with a pomegranate and another painting with butter.  I haven't posted all of those yet.  Not sure how the butter, pomegranate and oranges all started hanging out...

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#284 The Colorful Challenge

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I've been wanting to paint cantaloupe for awhile and this challenge on Daily Paintworks seemed like a great opportunity!  I always enjoy painting cranberries and cherries.  I also enjoyed painting the pink glass bottle.  It was my first time to paint it.  The transparency of the pink was little challenging.  Wish it was looser and not completely sure about the composition.  

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#282 Red Tulip and Glass

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I've painted a few other pieces that I haven't posted yet but already sold.  I will get around to that soon!  But for not here is a painting with a tulip that I bought at Sprouts a couple of weeks ago.  I didn't have a lot of time to paint that week and only managed to get two paintings with the tulips.  But I was pretty happy to have tulip paintings in the fall!  

6x6 inch oil on gessobord. Email me at suitabledesigns425@gmail.com

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#281 Autumn Mug

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Painting mugs is always a challenge for me.  I'm really happy with how this one turned out though.  I'm having so much fun painting warm, rich colors lately.  This one sold at Holiday on the Farm last Saturday.  

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#279 Holiday Lights

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This time I added Christmas lights to the composition.  I painted this one awhile back and intended to paint more lights but haven't gotten around to it yet.  You can check out the value plan below.  I didn't follow it exactly, but it was still super helpful!

8x8 inch oil on canvas. Email me at suitabledesigns425@gmail.com

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#275 Persimmons and Green

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I bought these persimmons at Sprouts over the weekend.  I think I was a little overly ambitious with the composition...especially since I started and finished the painting late at night!  It was tricky getting the values dark enough on the bowl and on the persimmons.  Took a few attempts.  

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#274 Strawberries and a Bowl

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Painting was really hard last week.  I was in a funk.  Started multiple paintings, but didn't like most of them.  This was the first one I actually enjoyed the process.  An encouraging artist friend, Gina Brown, reminded me that frustration is part of the process and helps us grow.  So true.  

10x10 inch oil on canvas. Email me at suitabledesigns425@gmail.com

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#273 On Display

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Painted this last night, starting around 9pm.  Too late really to start a painting, but I had been working on a commission earlier in the day and wanted to do something a little more free. 

12x12 inch oil on canvas. Email me at suitabledesigns425@gmail.com

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#271 Mug, Glass and Red Pears

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It was really hard painting on gessobord after a couple of weeks working on linen and canvas.  I forgot how slippery it can feel!  Found this mug at Target...another item in one of my favorite colors.

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#270 Red Plums and Blue Glass

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I'm posting things out of order because I painted this one before the pumpkins!  Painted because I like white and glass...also had some red plums on hand 

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#268 Pumpkin on Blue

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I painted this pumpkin awhile ago.  It was hard to get a good photo of it without a glare!

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#264 Three Grape Tomatoes

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I enjoyed painting the saturated reds and all of the reflected light.  

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