Caitlin

Found an old black and white photograph of my daughter Caitlin and wanted to give it a try.

Lumpy

This is a pot I made in ceramics and yes it is kind of lumpy. but I love the raku glaze and thought it looked great with this pomegranate.

Exotic Fruit

This is a Dragonfruit, and when I was it at Wegman's yesterday, I just knew I had to paint it. It really is a magenta fruit with green markings. I want to paint several views of it so I have no idea what's inside. It better be good because it cost $10.00!. It's about the size of an eggplant.

This is the persimmon I also got yesterday. I also got a pomegranate but will paint that next. Very fun to paint such bright colors. Wonder what this tastes like?

Pitcher

Second try using black, white and grays. I switched the objects to white ceramic pieces so colors wouldn't confuse me. A couple more then I'll try a white object and a colored one together. Read some interesting info by the "father" of the PAD (painting a day) movement - Duane Keiser. He's worth checking out.

I brought these two geraniums a few weeks ago and noticed a beautiful new set of flowers. So I set out to capture them right where they are in front of the window.

This was done with all the leftover paint when I cleaned my palette. Very fun to just plaster on the paint.

After seeing the black and white paintings done by N.C. Wyeth last week I remembered a painting class in college where we worked on the same large still life for a whole semester using only black and white. I hated it. Now I realize what it can look like when it's done well, so I plan to work in black and white til I get it right! Not so easy. Try again tomorrow.

OK the photography on these two needs some help, but I wanted to see them on my blog as a set. This is how I'd like to sell them probably framed or mounted on black.

Back off

I've been away visiting family for a few days with no way to paint. It rained both days we were there and the house is too nice to mess up with oils! Went to visit the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Fords, PA. What a great place. I came back really pumped up to get back to my peppers and move on to new ideas. One of the things I saw at the museum were black and white oil paintings done by NC Wyeth, Homer Pyle and a few other illustrators. Anyway, here is the last in my pepper series. I didn't change the composition because the peppers had started to change color, shrivel and one was beginning to rot! Another pepper was nibbled on by the mice, so I guess I won't be leaving my still life out