Still Life with Spoon - SOLD

"Still Life with Spoon", 10 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board SOLD
I am having a lot of fun with these still lifes--with broad brushstrokes, gray colors and lines. There is an interesting edge between what a set-up actually looks like and what the hand delivers.

Idaho Color

"Idaho Color", 8 x 10 In, Oil on Panel
I received the new set of instructional DVD's from Peggi Kroll Roberts the other day and spent today doing the limited palette exercises. Peggi presents exceptional ways to explore specific problems of painting and I am excited to try all of them. Meanwhile, searching for something to post, I discovered a couple of paintings from my Idaho trip in October that were hidden away in a dry box.

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Still Life with Pitcher - NFS

"Still Life with Pitcher", 10 x 12, Oil on Museum Board
Fooling around with color and smushing around the paint are the most fun things about this process. The evolution of a painting, from the beginning idea of composition to all the corners turned in execution, is sometimes the most surprising thing.

Zangle Cove Storm Light

"Zangle Cove Storm Light", 10 x 8 In, Oil on Panel
This is one of my "extra" paintings I did a couple of weeks ago looking out the window at the Cove on a stormy day when the light broke through for a few moments.

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Old Teapot - SOLD

"Old Teapot", 10 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is another painting of the old teapot. Besides value, shape and paint application, the other thing I am experimenting with is composition and cropped objects.

Teapot with Spoon

"Teapot with Spoon", 10 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is an old teapot without a lid that came from a box in my sister's storage unit and probably belonged to my mother or grandmother. My goal in this painting was simply to work with shapes and values and experiment with paint application.

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Jar and Pear

"Jar and Pear", 8 x 8 In, Oil on Museum Board
I'm going to start my new year of blogging with this modest little painting done late in the day as the natural light from my skylight was diminishing. Ovanes once commented that a student should do 20 or 25 paintings a day and it made me wonder seriously if he had actually ever done that. I think the most I have done (other than quick sketches in a class) was seven small paintings in a day and at the end of that day I was exhausted. But it is good to do a second painting in a day because after the first one, I give a big sigh of relief and realize that now I can do whatever I want! And if both turn out OK, then the next day I will feel even more experimental. Such is the psychology of painting ahead!

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Winter Light

"Winter Light", 8 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is the view I see out my studio window. It changes daily and hourly as the tide rises and falls, the clouds move across the sky, the wind changes from north to southwest and all the seasons bring different colors along with the natural life that abounds here.

I've posted now for an entire year to my daily blog, some 330 paintings! You can read my article, "Lessons from the Daily Blog," that I wrote in March 2010 about the trials of the first three months. Can I get it together to write another article? I'm thinking about it!

Thank you to all of you who have supported me during the last year. I wish you all a productive New Year! Here's to always being on the path of learning!

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