Food Paintings on Daily Paintworks! Cakes, Cookies, & Lemons!

Chocolate Chip Cookies   5" x 7"  oil

Good enough to eat.

Painting food is fun, but so hard not to eat it too!  Yummy cake and cookies are a real challenge.  But I struggled through it to make these paintings.  Now I have a FOOD category on my gallery page on DPW.  

Carrot Cake on an Antique Saucer   6" x 6"  oil

Lemon   6" x 6"  oil

It was easier to paint this lemon 

since I did not have the urge to eat it!

Last Piece of Carrot Cake   5" x 7"  oilOh, but this piece of carrot cake....  yumm!

  

                                                              

Trip to Monterey Bay And Moss Landing - Boats & Sea Otters!

I really enjoy the Central California coast.  The smell of the sea, the sound of the waves and the seals and the flight of birds in the air.  We go to the Monterey Bay beaches as often as we can.  It is always difficult to leave.  While there last week we spotted a number of sea otters just off the dock in Moss Landing.  

I did not have time to paint this trip, but I have painted there in the past.  Here is one of those paintings:

Moss Landing Bird Haven    oil

I call this "Moss Landing Bird Haven"  This is a great place to go bird watching.  There is a power plant in the distance and many pleasure and fishing boats dock there as well. 
You can buy this painting on Daily Paintworks.

Moss Landing is just west of Monterey, CA.  There are many interesting things to look at there including Elk Horn Slough which is a haven for birds, seals and other aquatic sea life. 

Here are some photos I took on this trip.  Can you see a future painting here?
The day was very overcast and threatened rain.  It made the colors almost look like a black and white photo.  The tide was way out when we were there.  

Geebes are one of my favorite birds.  They have such elegant long necks and swim so gracefully.  Now you see them, now you don't!  They disappear into the water instantly!  There were lots of them at Moss Landing on this trip.  So wonderful to see!

I hope you get to go to Moss Landing one day.  

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.

Foothill Paintings now on Daily Paintworks

    

Side By Side   12" x 16"  oils

Pat's View   12" x 16"   oils

Country Living   12" x 16"  oils

Bring in the Clouds  12" x 16"  oils

I now have 5 new foothill landscape paintings up on my Daily Paintworks Gallery.  These are from a series of paintings I did from scenes in the California foothills east of Modesto and up toward Sonora.  All the seasons are shown here.  

Check them out on Daily Paintworks.

Spring Creek  12" x 16"  oils

New Flower Paintings on Daily Paintworks

Mums   8" x 10"  oil

Birdbath   12" x 12"  on gallery wrapped canvas

Added today to my 
Daily Paintworks Gallery 
are these two floral paintings.

"Mums" was painted from my mums which decided to bloom.  They were very pretty white until the frost hit them and the tips of each petal turned pale purple.  They were a challenge to paint, but I enjoyed painting them very much.








This painting was painted at my local nursery.  What a fun place to paint!  So many nooks and crannies filled with interesting things to look at.  This birdbath was tucked into one corner and so I set up my easel and painted away.  I really liked the clay bird perched on the edge of the birdbath.


Check out both of these paintings on my Daily Paintworks Gallery 
and on my website at

www.RhettsStudio.com  

Carmel Mission Note Cards on DPW Gallery Store

 I just added this set of note  cards to my 
Daily Paintworks Gallery Store.  All painted at the Carmel Mission in Carmel, CA.

This is one of my all time favorite places to paint.  There are so many scenes, this place could keep me painting for a life time.  Lovely gardens, sculpture, old adobe buildings, fountains, and so much more.   

If you have not been there I hope you can get to go sometime. 

You can view these paintings on my website as well at:  www.RhettsStudio.com

New Gallery on Daily Paintworks

I am so pleased to announce that I now have my own gallery on DailyPaintworks.com  I am just starting so have only a few painting up right now, but planning more soon.  Just put up some note cards for sale and have a painting in the auction.  So hopeful for more sales and exposure.  And check out the new widget on the right!  Links right to my DPW gallery.

Note Card sets available on DPW

In the Auction on DPW
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