Day 30
6x8 inch oil on panel.
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This is the final day of the 30 day challenge. Number 30 is another little landscape of a broad leaf maple tree at the Beaver Lake Lilly Ponds. I took this photo while painting their with the Alfrescos last summer. It was a hot day and the shade from these trees was very appealing. You can see the pond in the background.
Day 29
8x8 inch oil on panel. visit my website for for paintings and newsI love my sketchbooks and all my art materials so I dedcided to paint the stack of sketchbooks sitting on my table with the paint rags balanced on top. There were some nice shadows and colour variety to work with.
Day 27
5x7 inch oil on panel. visit my website for for paintings and newsHeading into the final few days of the challenge!
Just a little landscape today of the edge of the Cumberland Forest near the entry to the trails through the woods and mountian. This boggy area is full of Skunk Cabbage, which in spite of it's name and smell when crushed or broken is a beautiful bright yellow water plant. I love the forest.
Day 26
8x8 inch oil on panel. visit my website for for paintings and newsI'm using the same glass bowl that I painted in an earlier post, but this time I'm looking directly down on it. The coloured fruit is in contrast to the white on white of the glass sitting on the white cloth.
Day 24
6x6 inch oil on panel. visit my website for for paintings and newsFor a change of pace I painted a little landscape that I cropped from a photo I took while hiking up Mt. Washington a couple of years ago. I liked the photo but wasn't sure how to paint it. A little cropping and it's not too bad. Back to still life tomorrow.
Day 23
6x8 inch oil on panel.
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Another still life with striped fabric (well sort of) and glass this time. I've had this milk bottle kicking around for some time meaning to paint it so here it is finally. This is a woven scarf behind it with shiny gold thread woven through it. You can't really tell, but there it is.
Day 22
6x8 inch oil on panel.
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This painting is really all about the stripes. I've painted so many pears that I know how they are put together pretty well by now, but I still love painting them. They have wonderful shapes and facets Nothing round about a pear no matter what you see at first sight.
Day 21
6x8 inch oil on panel.
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Another still life using another of my thrift store treasures. I like this glass bowl because of the geometric facets in the glass and the distortions that it creates. I thought I'd try more pieces of fruit in the bowl and paint looking down on it somewhat.
