"FEELING GREEN"

6x6, oil on 3/8 gesso panel, $75.00

Color is so much fun and compliments are even better.  

"A DAILY PRESCRIPTION"

8x8, on oil on gesso panel, $100.00

I love the saying, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."  I personally think a bouquet of flowers can do the same thing.  Not that we should eat them, but admire the beauty and the loving feeling when receiving such a lovely gift or purchasing one.  So I say buy those flowers you love or plant ones to cut and for insurance eat the apple. 

"APPLE TO APPLE"

8x8, oil on 3/8 gesso panel, $100.00

With autumn right around the corner, it seems a good time to paint apples.  The green ones are particularly good for painting as they reflect great light and color, yet still have wonderful depth in values.  

Setting this up was particularly interesting.  I have 12x12 sheets of colored paper usually used in scrap booking that I uses as back grounds when setting up still lifes.  It is very quick to change out the color and see the effect the color has on the subject.  After playing around the choice was harmonious.  Just staying in a small area of the color wheel for the obvious color scheme.  What's fun about doing this is looking for spots of color that may or may not be there that optically pop up in areas of my vision.  I like to experiment an lay in a color to push another color usually by using compliments.  I've had more of a chance to do this since committing to daily painting.  It's kinda changed up my excitement and interest with my long love affair with art and particularly painting.  

Mixed Fruit 11x14 oil

Well here is another fruit painting using the left over fruit from breakfast and lunch while in Ojai. The set up on this is odd with four to one groupings, but oh well. I continued to work with the Cynthia Grilli palette. New for me is using mediums and glazes and letting things dry. I didn't let things dry all the way, but enough. The medium of dammar varnish, linseed oil and turpentine helped with the drying time. I go back to class tomorrow to learn more on this. It has been fun experimenting.