Farmer's Market Bouquet with Panpastel

 I bought these lovely flowers at a farmer's market and was amazed how fresh they stayed as I was painting them with my new set of Panpastels.

I worked on a pale blue sanded pastel paper and loved the way the pastel looked on it.

Watch the video to see how I worked this.  This is my first video, so please bear with me on this.  I hope to get better doing this technical stuff.  

First stages of working this painting.

Adding the background,
but I did not like the color and changed it later.

Final finished piece.  12" x 9" framed with mat under glass. 

I will be bringing this new piece framed to the Stanislaus County Artists Open Studio Tour, April 6/7th, 2019 in Modesto, CA.  We are at #23 on the map.  

$350 framed  Message me if you wish to add this pastel painting to your collection of fine art. 

First Spring Rose in DPW auction

 Now on Daily Paintworks this 6" x 6" Daily Painting called "First Spring Rose".

This is the prettiest rose in our garden and it always blooms first.  It is called Just Joey and is a lovely rose.  As it ages it expands and changes colors.  It is my favorite rose to paint.

The little ceramic owl was bought in Mexico when I was on a painting trip there in 1968.  He gets into many of my paintings!

This painting is now on display at the Tracy Grand Art Gallery in Tracy, CA. 


Below is how this painting might look framed.

Time for Eggs

Egg Challenge

Duck Visits Egg   6" x 6"   oil on gessoboard

 I have seen paintings by other artists of a broken egg on a plate and thought that might be a good challenge.
Capturing that "wet" look is interesting, but the most difficult part was the egg shell.  I added one of my nasturtium flowers and leaf to give a spark of color.  The blueberries are freshly picked from my blueberry bush outside my studio door!  They are really good and make interesting shapes.  
Daily Painting #42

Egg and Blueberries   6" x 6"  oil on gessoboard

 Here is another attempt at painting an egg.
Daily Painting #43

Let Me Hold Your Tea Bag     6" x 6"  oil on gessoboard

Here is my 3rd Daily Painting Still life with an egg.  I added the white tea cup, ceramic tea bag holder and flowers.  A fun collection of shapes, colors and textures!
Daily Painting #45














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Painting Red Apples

Red Apples

Two and Half Apples  6x6 oil

 Ok, so I digress from my orange.  Just had to try my hand at some red apples I bought.  Discovered that Rose Madder and Pyrrol Red make just the color I needed!  I love the turquoise and the wall paper.
DAILY PAINTING #39

Apples and a Duck   6x6 oil

 So I had to try it again. This time my little glass duck had to get into the act. I think it is from the 40s.  Cute little guy.

Apples and Blueberries    6x6   oil

 DAILY PAINTING #40















My beautiful blueberries are getting ripe  so I was out picking them.  They cried out to be included in the next painting!  So here they are.   Ooooo they are good!  The blue cobalt bottle is old.
 DAILY PAINTING #41

Please Don't Eat the Blueberries    6x6   oil

I bought this little chick at the Dollar Store at Easter.  It is fluffy and bobs up and down as it quacks!  I hope it doesn't eat my blueberries!

The blue cup was left over from a trip from my Aussie daughter. 
DAILY PAINTING #42












All these paintings are $95 unframed  $125 framed. 

Still Getting Ready for Open Studio

APRIL 7th
 The last few days have been filled with painting and getting my studio presentable for the public.  Only 16 days left to get things in order.  Open Studio Tour is April 23 & 24th and I hope some of you will be able to stop by and see my new work.  

I am still focusing on my Daily Paintings.  I now have the first 6 framed and I like the way they turned out.  I used a floating frame type.  

Won't they look good on a wall together?

And I have been continuing my exploration of the color orange.  What a wonderful color!  It is fun to look for things that are orange.  My rose flowers are now in full bloom and the peachy orange ones are wonderful.  I just wish I could remember the name of that rose.  

First Spring Rose   6x6

< Here is the first rose that opened.  I put it into a pretty glass vase and of course my little owl had to get into the act.   So many colors of orange in this flower! 

Just Peachy   6x6

So now for a close up!  Lovely flower!  Such fun to see all the colors of orange!  

Pretty in Orange   6x6

<  This rose is very orange!  But with so many variations!  The golden yellows and soft pinks add to the vibrancy of this rose!  

Peek-A-Boo    6x6

And in this one my little Mexican owl had to get into the picture!  I call this one "Peek-A-Boo!"   

I can't wait to frame up these rose beauties!  

Come to my Open Studio and see them!

Orange Juiced!

 Day 12 Wednesday, March 23

ORANGE TOAST

I wanted to do a quick and small 5" x 7" painting and still had my red daisy from yesterday's painting.  I noticed a tall wine glass on my shelf and dropped the daisy in it with the piece of mistletoe.  Added the orange and voila!   "Orange Toast"  5" x 7"  This size sure seems small after enjoying the 6x6s. 







Day 13 Thursday, March 24

ORANGE JUICE

My orange tree is loaded with oranges so painting them has been a good practice.  I have painted them whole and sliced them, but what about juicing them?  So out came my juicer.  This time I added some scrap booking paper to the background.  A fun touch, don't you think?  "Orange Juice"  6x6  Yum!  Orange juice tastes so good.  One thing I discovered as I painted.... orange juice is not ORANGE at all, but quite YELLOW !

ORANGE MUG AND ORANGE JUICE

Day 14 Friday, March 25   I painted an orchid this day which was fading fast and I wanted to try a capture it now.  I will post that painting later.

Day 15 Saturday, March 26  Shopping at the Dollar store and discovered some very colorful mugs to try. Now if you don't think orange juice is really yellow, compare it to this bright ORANGE mug!  The little owl figure is from Mexico where I spent part of a summer.  He is so cute.  I think I will add him to more of my paintings!




 Trying to get ready for the  
Stanislaus Artist's Open Studios.
Hope you can drop by and see my Daily Painting progress.
Saturday,  April 23  and Sunday, April 24th
Tickets are available at 
Carnegie Art Center in Turlock and Mistlin Art Gallery in Modesto.

More Orange Paintings

DAILY PAINTING - A PAINTING A DAY - More Orange Paintings

ORANGE WREATH  6x6  oil

Day 7 - Saturday, March 19
Time to rearrange the fruit.  The oranges seemed to form a circle so I call this one "Orange Wreath".  I am getting the hang of painting oranges!  So many colors!  Tried a bright orange background this time.  It is fun to add a bright color to the background.  "Orange Wreath"




 

ODD STRAWBERRY OUT  6x6

Day 8 Sunday, March 20th
When I was re-arranging the fruit the strawberry fell out of the bowl.  It looked so sad and seemed to want to jump back into the bowl!  So I call this one "Odd Strawberry Out".

PANSY WITH SLICED ORANGE

Day 9 Monday, March 21st
Ok, what to do with oranges next?  Why not slice it!?  So out came the knife and the orange was cut up.  I wanted to add a spot of color purple and so I added this purple pansy.  I discovered that purple is a difficult color to paint.  The pansy is the most vibrant purple and it is not easy to capture in paint.  Did a lot of experimenting with mixes.  To balance it all, I added purple to the background.


Day 10  Tuesday, March 22nd
So now what?  Why peel the orange, of course!  But I got it half peeled and the curl was so interesting I thought "Why not try it?"  Tree trimmers were here today to take the mistletoe out of our tree, so I picked up a few pieces to add to the bowl.
 So here it is.  "Orange Peeled"  6x6

ORANGE PEELED   6x6

Wet - still on the easel

ORANGE SPIRAL WITH DAISY

 Day 11 Wednesday, March 23rd
Playing with the orange, the peel fell down and out of the bowl.  Well, OK  lets run with this.  But to add some more color I picked one of my beautiful daisy flowers in the garden.  I kept the mistletoe as I discovered it makes a pretty shape. "Orange Spiral With Daisy"  6x6




HOT TIP:  Since these paintings are small, 6x6, signing them is difficult.  I want to make sure I honor both my parents with my first AND middle names, so my signature is long.  I tried all kinds of things to use.  And Bingo!  I found the perfect tool!  I had a dried up Sharpie Extra Fine marker pen and tried it, writing directly into the wet paint.  Works great!  Just wipe it off often.  Try it!


See you later.  Thanks for reading my blog.  Come back later for more of my daily paintings.
Hope it inspires you too.

A New Resolve - Paint Every Day!

~ A NEW RESOLVE ~

 DAILY PAINTING - A PAINTING A DAY

I have been painting for a long time now, but not as often as I would like to.  Recently, I discovered DailyPaintworks.com and it has opened up my eyes to the importance of painting every day.  So I have a new resolve.... PAINT EVERY DAY!  So my new resolve has begun!
I have revised my studio fixing up my easel area, adding a new paint palette to preserve my paint, fixing up a still life area, etc.

DAY 1 March 13, 2016.... painted a yellow pitcher I bought at a garage sale
DAY 2 March 14   painted an orange on a blue plate  5" x 7".
Well, OK... so good so far.  Not great paintings, but I am having fun!

My still life set up

ORANGE BOWL  6x6

DAY 3  March 15  Now I am getting serious..  Set up a sliced orange in a bowl.  This time I graduated to a 6" x 6" panel.  What FUN!  I painted for over 3 hours!    I am happy with my progress.  I call this one "ORANGE BOWL" 6x6 

"ORANGE NEST"  6" x 6" oil on panel

DAY 4  March 16  Now I am on a roll!  Reworked the still life adding a strawberry this time.  Gee, painting oranges over and over is getting a little easier.  There is a lot to painting an orange!  So many subtle colors especially in the rind.  What I have noticed is that it is interesting painting the same subject repeatedly makes me look harder and work at my brushstrokes.  "Orange Nest"  6x6  oil on panel.

"FRUIT BOWL"  6" x 6"  oils

DAY 5  March 15   Now I wake up and can't wait to get to the studio!  Added grapes and rearranged the fruit.  I decided to zoom in and fill the 6" x 6" panel with the image.  The grapes were fun to add. "Fruit Bowl"  6x6  oil on panel

"AVOCADO INTRUDER"  6" x 6"  oil

DAY 6  March 16  Our avocado tree has been dropping avocados for months.  I have to pick them up right away.  Having one in my hand in my studio, I thought, "Why not?  Add it to the still life!" Since the avocado has joined the oranges, I call this one: "AVOCADO INTRUDER"   6x6   oil on panel

ORANGE IS MY NEW FAVORITE COLOR!

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