Saturday, March 31, 2012

Spring Sunlight

Day 26  60/60 Painting Challenge  Stan's Day   "This painting is a spring sunlit day in Santa Ysabel Valley.  The hills and valley are covered in spring green but I warmed the painting using earth tones."
Oil on board     6" X 6"    

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Old Bottle and Lemon

This is another old bottle painting.  I paired it with a lemon and a folded cloth to add colour.  The trick is to paint the bottle so that it looks transparent yet add the colour of the bottle so that it looks iridescently old.  Oil on board.   7" X 5"   $75

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Pond in Pine Hills

Day 24 - 60/60 Painting Challenge - Stan's Day  "This pond is visible from Deer Lake Park Rd.  Looking west; east of Pine Hills, Julian."  Painted on 140# Lanaquarelle Cold Press.  5 3/4 X 6 1/2"  $75

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Lisa's Gift

About 30 years ago I visited my daughter in Las Vegas.  We went window shopping in a nearby mall.  I spotted 2 small ceramic birds that I liked.  For my following birthday I received them as gifts.  I was surprised & pleased.  So today I decided to paint one to see if it could look like ceramic.  I also wanted to paint with gray tones.  I added a few highlights but the overall light was generalised & there wasn't much contrast.  I will paint another one in different light.  I do like the results of this bird anyway.  Sweet.
Oil on board       6" X 6"    $75

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Unlit Candle

Day 22  Unlit Candle   Stan's painting   Watercolor  10" X 6"  $75

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Monday, March 26, 2012

Plum Passion

Day 21 of the 60/60 Painting Challenge.  This candle is called, Plum Passion.  It's fragrance is a combination of plum, raspberry, vanilla & cinnamon.  I was in olfactory heaven while painting.  I added a bit of whimsy with the background.  Oil on board  7" X 5" $75

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Flowers in a Cup

A simple vignette paintedfrom drawings of a setup in one of my classes.  Drawings from life but painted from memory.  The painting is water colour 8" X 6" on Lanaquarelle 140# hot press paper.  $75

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Old Blue Bottle

I have a collection of old bottles.  The first bottle in my collection I dug out of my yard in San Diego.  Back in the 20's people buried their trash.  I discovered 2 bottles when I dug to plant a vegetable garden.  This bottle I probably bought in a bottle shop in Lordsburg, AZ.  I hope to paint several over the next few weeks.  Some are iridescent.  I see such beauty in these discarded antiquities.  Oil on board.
6" X 6"  $75

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Daffodil Spring

Day 18- 60/60 Painting Challenge  - Stan's painting.  "This painting in acrylic was done from an arrangement of live flowers in one of my classes.  10" X 8"  Acrylic on canvas  $75

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Festive Fruit

    I liked the stripes on the candle painting so I added stripes on this painting.  The tangerines have served me well in this painting challenge.  Oil on board  6" X 6"  $75 

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Magenta Blooms

Stan's painting - "A still life set up in class.  I made drawings and colour notes and then painted it from memory.  Doing it from memory keeps me from being a slave to the motif".  Acrylic on canvas  8" X 6"
$75

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Lemon Pepper

Stan's painting -  Another opportunity to paint something from the pantry as well as the beautiful colour of a lemon.  Also an opportunity to contrast two complimentary colours, yellow & purple.  Watercolor
12" X 7"   $75

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Chili Powder

Stan's painting.  The pantry is always a good source of painting material.  I love the colours on the various bottles.  Also when single objects are posed in the light they take on a subtle mysterious quality.  Watercolor  10" X 5"   $75

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Offered Candle

I painted this candle right after the Calla Lily.  My theme seems cultural; Mexican motif.  I love the striped cloth and the  thought of offering up a candle.  I lit the candle; painted it; left the studio for a few hours.  When I returned the candle had burned down to the nub(?)  How fortunate I was that my studio was still intact.  Just maybe my offered candle was pleasing.  Oil on board   7: X 5"  $75

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Calla Lily ala Diego Rivera

I painted Calla Lilies several years ago; one field of Calla Lillies I gave to a very good friend.  A single Calla Lily was given to Stan's friend (who loved Calla Lillies)  This time around I had difficulties painting this flower.  I told an artist friend about my struggle with colour & he concurred with me that they are indeed hard to paint.  He said they have lavender, green, ochre, yellow, etc.  It is very easy to mix mud when mixing these colours.  But then a friend posted she liked this version and that it reminded her of Diego Rivera.  I wish I had painted mine before he did.  Oil on canvas panel  7" X 5"

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The Red Pepper


I painted this for the 60/60 Painting Challenge. I love the subtle shades of red on the pepper. The garlic looked great initially then I overworked it. I think it looks fine now.  It's fun to paint what I'm going to eat in the  evening.   7" X 5"  Oil on board.  $75

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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Lime Cream Cheese Icing

This is Day 11 - I bought a new computer & I'm still learning how to use it.  I accidentally erased Day 9.  I'll photograph it again & repost.  I'm also a day or two behind.  I'll catch up this weekend. The painting being posted today is a vanilla cupcake with lime cream cheese icing.  I love baking these little edibles.  I placed one cupcake in a bowl thinking the repetition of shapes would be eye pleasing.  I painted it.  I'm not sure I needed the repetition.  The paintings are displaying darker than they really are.  I'll have to have a tutorial on this computer soon.  The painting is oil on board.  6" X 6"  $75

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Washington Street South

This is looking down Washington St. in Julian - facing south.  Watercolor  5" X 7"   SOLD

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Day 8 - Here is Stan's piece for today's challenge: "The End of Washington St. Santa Ysabel #2. Painted in my truck from the same location as 'The End of Washington St. #1' but turned 90-Degrees." 5 x 10" Watercolor  $75

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Monday, March 12, 2012

Creamer On Old Shirt


Day 7 of 60/60 Painting Challenge    -   I bought this creamer in a consignment shop in Oceanside, CA.  I wanted to paint it on a dark cloth.  I went into the spare bedroom next to my studio; saw some of my son's clothes on the guest bed; pulled a dark cloth from his clothes pile, which turned out to be an old faded black t-shirt.  It became my backdrop.  It was wrinkled & had many folds.  Quite a challenge to paint!  $75
Oil on board   7" X 5"

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Ridgeline #2

Here is Stan's Painting of the Day - Day 6 - "Same as ridge line #1 except different time of day and weather". Title - Ridgeline #2. Watercolor / 6" x 10" $75

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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Cutie Clementine


I bought a netted bag of Cuties.  And like popcorn or M&M's I couldn't stop with one.  My bag lasted a few days.  I thought the last one would look good in a painting next to a blue container.  I let some of the underpainting show through.  I was inspired by Carol Marine.  I'm noticing that even though I want larger looser brush strokes, I'm tightening up somewhat.  I'm doing what's comfortable & natural.  This is oil on board.  7' X 5" $75

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Friday, March 9, 2012

The End of Washington St. - Santa Ysabel

This is Stan's painting.  He says it was painted in Santa Ysabel while sitting in his truck.  He loves the opportunity to paint with a limited palette and to explore the patterns that the winter landscape provides.  It's 6" X 10".  Watercolor.  $75

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Art Of Baking

Day 3  I recently went to a cooking school and learned how to bake &  ice gourmet cupcakes.  This is a chocolate cream cheese cupcake.  I think the blueberries add a nice touch.  This painting seems to be about textures.  Got milk?  Oil on board.  $75

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View From The Kitchen

Stan Goudey is posting on my blog every other day for the 60/60 Painting Challenge.  This was his Day 1 painting; done yesterday.  Stan says,  "This is a look at the ridge line across the canyon from our home.  The scene is looking west in the late afternoon.  It's painted on 260# Rough Arches Paper."  Watercolor.  $75

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

60/60 Painting Challenge

Today is the first day of our 60/60 Painting Challenge.  I'm one of 27 artists who will be painting & posting daily for 60 days.  Stan is my other half.  I'll post every other day & he will the alternate days.  I'll add him to my blog as his is inactive for the moment.  This challenge is to help improve our painting, no matter what our "normal" style is.  Typically I paint using glazes so my paintings have to dry between glazing.  My paintings take several weeks to finish.  The daily paintings will take me from an hour to several hours to complete.  This set- up was spontaneous.  I grabbed the first things I saw in my kitchen/cupboard.  After painting the pitcher & onion I saw I needed another object plus more color.  I added a poppy; umbrella-like; which gives the painting a feature of joy & fancy.  This is titled:  "Rising Above".  It is 6" X 6".  Oil on ampersand board.  SOLD

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