#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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#308 The Pair

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Painted these pairs for this week's DPW Challenge, to paint either pears or a pair.  I haven't painted many pears in awhile.  It was a little challenging to make them both red and green but I loved the red parts to them.  I'm hoping to squeeze in one more pear painting before the end of the weekend.

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#307 What a Pair

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This was my second attempt at painting avocados over the weekend.  I've been wanting to paint avocados on yellow for a while and I'm glad I found a composition that worked.  I added the white because all the yellow seemed like too much for me.  I like how the hole on the left worked out and I like the pop of blue shadow, too.  I did work fast because the avocados were browning quickly!

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#300 Tenderheart

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I had a lot of fun painting this piece.  I love the golds.  I also enjoyed applying the paint using a filbert.  I've been using them on my quick value sketches, but not usually for a finished painting.  I like the strokes I get with it (can't see it well in the photo).  I hope to experiment with it more.  I also painted a high key composition and an 18x24" composition.  I'll post those soon.  

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#296 Who's the Fairest

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Challenged myself with a big shiny bowl and a big somewhat translucent tomato!  So hard to get an accurate photo of this one.

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#295 Lemons for Tea

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I had to rework the lemons a couple of times before I liked them.  I borrowed this tea pot from a friend and I think this is the third time I've used it in a painting.  I'm always intimidated by ceramic items, but I think I'm starting to get a better hang of painting reflections in it.  I've found doing a value study first really helps me keep the reflections more accurate and I try to just use loose brush strokes.  Painted this for the DPW Challenge to use an even number of items in a composition.  Hence the 4 lemons.  

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#294 The Don

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Zach named this one and made the suggestion that I paint our olive oil.  I appreciate how he is always trying to encourage me on this art journey.  The tomato was little intimidating to me, but I like how it turned out!

Here are a couple of other shots.

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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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#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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#289 All the Shiny Things

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Painted this somewhat quickly last night.  The background is a little more green than it shows in the photo.  It will be my last painting until after Christmas!  

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#287 Where the Cantaloupe Roam

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This one was named by my husband :)  I love painting these little gold ornaments and all of their reflections.  I turned them so that they don't necessarily look like ornaments, but just little gold balls.  I borrowed the tea pot from a friend.  Thanks, Alicia!  

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#283 Pomegranate and Sparkle

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I really enjoyed painting this one.  It was my first time to paint a pomegranate.  They are such a pretty color!  Also really enjoyed painting the gold ornament.

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#280 Brightly Shining

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For this painting, I didn't use a light.  I only used the candlelight and the ambient lighting in the room.  It was a fun challenge.  Especially capturing the candle as it burned down!

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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!

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#278 Mingle and Jingle

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This painting was third in my series of Christmas ornaments.  I painted this one a little larger and on canvas.  I've really enjoyed painting on canvas lately.  The hardest part was the drawing of the glass bottle.  When I wrestle so much with a drawing it reminds me how much I need to work on my drawing skills!  I tried to keep the ornaments simple, again.  

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#276 Merry & #277 Bright

SOLD 6x6 inch oil on gessobord

I can't believe it has been three weeks since I updated my blog!  I painted this on November 2 and it sold through Instagram.  It was my first attempt at painting Christmas Ornaments this year.  Lately, I've been doing a gray-scale value plan before most of my paintings.  I included the one for this painting below.

SOLD 6x6 inch oil on gessobord

My second Christmas ornament painting.  I sold this one through Instagram as well.  I tried to keep the ornaments very simple in both of these paintings.  

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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.  

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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. 

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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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