Tea Hour

Here is another take on the tea pot. I am much happier with this one as it is more what I am striving for... looser and more playful... hope you like it!

Cleaning Day

I have to admit, I do not like cleaning. I'd rather paint of course.... I thought maybe it is more fun to paint the cleaning tools instead of going with them for the BIG SCRUB ;o)

Papaya Slice

The complimentary color combination works very well here. After being a great subject for a still life, this papaya made for a delicious salat...

Two Coconuts 1

Recently I have been fascinated with green coco nuts freshly cut off from the palm. In this unripe stage they are a very popular refreshment. Refrigerated, people enjoy them cut open drinking the coco milk with a straw and scooping out the gel-like nut. I have done several studies. Here is the first one.

Water Glass

Is it half full or half empty? What is your outlook on life... Being blessed with a rather optimistic personality, I see it as half full..... Wish you all a wonderful day with many opportunities to fill up the cup :o)

Onion Basket

I find onions are one of the more difficult veggies to paint. This came out more flat than I intended due to the high key colors and little shadow... In my next onion portrait I will focus on more dramatic light... after all: "THEY ARE ONIONS!"

Cypress in Fall

I have not posted much on the DAILYPAINTWORKS.COM challenges as I am finding myself with less time to spare for painting. However, this painting I was able to post for the past week's fall colors challenge. Here in South Florida we do not have the dramatic color change that fall presents up North. However, the bald cypress is one of the view trees that does change colors and goes "bald" during the winter. It is like a splash of color next to all the evergreens.

Four Pears

My favorite subject ..... you guessed it .......fruits and vegetables :o)

Orange Cocktail

I "squeezed" in some time for a still life. Because there is not much color contrast here, I focused on the glass. 

Back Light

Here an attempt to capture the morning light in the park. I only had about an hour before the sun moved on and everything changed. I love the mood in this painting.....

Happiest Hour

I posted this "Me painting in the Park" picture on the DPW weekly challenge. This painting is a birthday card and Thank you to Carol Marine who has been an inspiration for many. Initially through her daily painting blog and now the Dailypaintworks.com website she has been a leader in creating an online artist community.

Carrots

The hardest part was the different shades of green. Now looking at the painting afterwards...I could have put more darks into the orange color to create more depth? I am going to leave it for now and on to the next painting.....

Cup o'Tea 2

As mentioned earlier - I am returning to the little teapot! This time I focused on bringing more color into the white of the pot and cup. I think it shows more of the character of the forms... I say it is improved from the previous post. Agree?

Red Beets

I never imagined there could be so much variation in colors in this ordinary root vegetable. It was fun observing the subtlety of it all. Also these beets tasted great after roasting in the oven for 1/2 hour.....

Red Taters

Painting this picture made me realize that I am looking at things differently now. I am more sensitive to subtleties in color, notice more reflections and values. At times waiting in the car at a red light, I find myself squinting at something and in my mind "seeing" myself observing the values and how I would paint it. Does that happen to you too??? I call it "MIND-PAINTING" - unfortunately limited in time because usually it is interrupted by beeping cars behind me....

Tubes of Paint

Happy 4th of July!!!
I painted this for the Weekly Challenge at DPW: Paint what your are painting with. These tubes must have felt special posing. Normally they get the squeeze and toss treatment.....

Mango Duo

...still not being bored painting and eating them...

Clementines

I did this painting a while ago when the fruit were in season. The colors captured my spirit when I came across this painting on my flashdrive this morning. I know I will not be able to paint today so I posted this painting to fill in.

Apples and Basket

Here again one of my favorite still life subjects: fruit. The tricky thing with these multi-colored apples was to get the light and shadow areas in the appropriate tone, I guess I could have done more darks to give it more depth...

Bok Choy - Entry to Weekly Challenge

I love vegetables and painting them comes almost natural. The difficulty here was to make the leaves look loose and "leafy" and not stiff and "card-boardy".