Daily Paintings

Daily Painting #249 – Mango
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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Daily Painting #248 – Chili Pepper
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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Daily Painting #247 – Dendrobium Orchid Buds
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
Not for Sale

I waited for this orchid to flower for a long time. I think it was over a year ago when it last bloomed. I was really excited when I saw the buds growing. Today, all three buds have fully opened — it’s really wonderful to see its deep purple flowers again!

Daily Painting #246 – Tea and Tangerine
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
Not for Sale

I would like the teacup to look more translucent so I will give this painting a second layer. I am also trying to use my tube of phthalo blue more so I used it on the background here.

Daily Painting #245 – Dendrobium Anosmum Orchid No. 2
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
US$100 plus US$16 shipping to the US
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Daily Painting #244 – Star Apple
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.75 x 5.5 inches — 14.5 x 14 cm
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This is a painting of the tropical fruit star apple or caimito/cainito. I have not eaten one of these in a long while that I have actually forgotten what they taste like. They are delicious!

Daily Painting #243 – Three Peppers
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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These chili peppers were such beautiful shades of green, I just had to paint them! I like how the ends are out of focus, giving the painting more depth.

Daily Painting #242 – Orange No. 3
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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Daily Painting #241 – Ya Pear in Bowl
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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Daily Painting #240 – Lemon
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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Daily Painting #239 – Five Tangerines
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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I’ve been wanting to do this composition for quite some time now, but I kept putting it off because I was intimidated by the glass dish. Well, these baby tangerines wouldn’t keep any longer so I had no choice but to do it. Surprisingly, this painting was fun and I didn’t come across any difficulties at all.

Daily Painting #238 – A Pear No. 2
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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Pears used to be the hardest subjects to paint for me. But now, they are one of my most favorite.

Daily Painting #237 – A Tomato
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
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One last tomato painting for now. I just love the color of these unripe tomatoes!

Daily Painting #236 – Yellow Tomato
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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Daily Painting #235 – Tomato Slices
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
SOLD

More tomatoes.

Daily Painting #234 – Three Tomatoes
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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I tried out a smoother painting board for “Three Tomatoes” which I made by sanding the last layer of gesso. I’m not sure if I like painting on this any better than on the unsanded board. I will have to try it out some more before I conclude anything, but the paint did feel so much more fluid on it.

Daily Painting #233 – Green Pear
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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Daily Painting #232 – Black Plum No. 2
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
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Daily Painting #231 – Fishhook
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
US$35 plus US$16 shipping to the US
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A big fish we bought fresh from the market several years ago came with this hook. I save the most unusual things.

I am having a difficult time with my blog today. First I managed to delete one or two pages of spam comments and now the internet connection is very sluggish.

Daily Painting #230 – Cracker
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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I love painting crumbs. I do these by painting dots of shadow color and dragging them with a soft brush, and then going back and adding a lighter color for the crumbs.

Daily Painting #229 – Squash No. 2
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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Daily Painting #228 – A Tea Bag
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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Second painting for today. I like how this turned out. I’d love to do more tea bags because I truly enjoyed painting this one.

Sunshine Award

I just received the Sunshine award from wonderful artist Becky Joy. Thanks, Ms. Becky!

The rules for accepting the award are:

• Put the logo on your blog or within your post.
• Pass the award onto 12 bloggers.
• Link the nominees within your post.
• Let the nominees know they received this award.
• Link to the person from whom you received this award.

Here are my twelve nominees in no particular order:

Marilyn King – Very nice oil paintings.

Michael Naples – I absolutely love his work. He, along with Duane Keiser, inspired me to begin my own daily painting project.

Karen Hargett – My friend who does very lovely pastels.

Peter Yesis – I like how he includes humor and pictures of paintings in progress in his posts.

Dean Haven – A new friend I met thanks to the Different Strokes from Different Folks blog.

Mick McGinty – Every time I see his work, I say, “When I grow up, I want to paint just like him.”

Kari Tirrell – Soft, beautiful pastels and portraits.

Diane Hoeptner – Lovely flowers. Bright colors. Juicy paint.

Carol Nelson – I just “discovered” her blog recently, but I enjoy following her 100 portraits in 100 days project.

Liz Holm – Fabulous portraits!

Paul Brown – Extremely realistic still life paintings.

Vivienne St. Clair – Wonderful postcard paintings.

As always, no pressure to join in if you do not feel like it. Happy painting/drawing, my artist friends!

Daily Painting #227 – A Bowl of Rice
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
Not for Sale

I’ve come to accept that finishing one painting each and every day would mean that some of these will not always turn out the way I hoped for.

One of those which did not turn out very well was this bowl of rice. I had a very difficult time painting the rice realistically, in addition to the bowl.

But with every painting, be it a failure or a success, there are always lessons to be learned. What I learned as a result of this painting was that I really should take the extra time to analyze the subject carefully…and that those colorful little dots on the chopsticks were so much fun to paint!

Daily Painting #226 – Chocolate Chip Cookie No. 2
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
US$40 plus US$16 shipping to the US
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One more of the delicious chocolate chip cookies. This is my most favorite of all the cookies I painted.

Daily Painting #225 – Garlic Cloves No. 3
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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Daily Painting #224 – Egg Yolk in Shell
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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Daily Painting #223 – Pear Half
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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Pears have always been very difficult for me to paint, but with every new attempt, I find that I know the subject a little more and that brings me hope that the next pear painting I do will turn out much better.

Daily Painting #222 – Chocolate Chip Cookie Lineup
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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Daily Painting #221 – Tea and Cookie
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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I had a hard time making the colors look accurate on the computer screen. The background is actually much softer and lighter than it appears here.

Daily Painting #220 – Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
US$100 plus US$16 shipping to the US
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More chocolate chip cookies!

Daily Painting #219 – Triple Layer Chocolate Cake
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
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Cake may be my second most favorite treat…next to ice cream. We usually make our own simple version from cake mix which come in boxes, but I think this was the first time I’ve eaten one which had all the extras — cherry, icing and all.

Daily Painting #218 – My Cup of Tea
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
US$40 plus US$16 shipping to the US
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I am not much of a tea drinker, but I just recently discovered that tea is especially delicious after eating cookies.

Daily Painting #217 – Chocolate Chip Cookie
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
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I have a few more chocolate chip cookie paintings coming up in the next posts. Hope you will like them!

Daily Painting #216 – Red Chili Pepper No. 2
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
Not for Sale

Daily Painting #215 – Orchid Bud
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
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This orchid bud was done using leftover oil paint that I had from the previous day’s session. My reference was a pencil sketch that I did from life a few years ago. Somehow the monochrome effect didn’t look right as I was painting it, but in the end, I liked it and thought it had a “classic” feel to it.

Daily Painting #214 – A Match
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
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Daily Painting #213 – Yellow Marble on Wood
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
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Daily Painting #212 – Playing with Fire
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
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Daily Painting #211 – Yellow Onion
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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Daily Painting #210 – Peanut Butter Sandwich
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
US$100 plus US$16 shipping to the US
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Daily Painting #209 – Study of Snow
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
Not for Sale

Here’s a study of my pet dove named Snow. I very, very seldom paint animals, but we’ve had Snow for about 4 months now and I decided that it was time I did a painting of him. This was painted from life with a very limited palette. It was quite difficult at times with Snow coming up to me every now and then to look at his painting, but most of the time, he sat still and posed.

I have recently been toning my gesso with a little Raw Umber. I liked the pale cream color so I left it unpainted.

Daily Painting #208 – Fox’s Candy: Yellow
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
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Daily Painting #207 – A Carrot
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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I’m very pleased with this painting. I was able to finish it easily — every brush stroke seemed to fall in its proper place the first time around. I love that. I think the time I spent to analyze the subject and the colors helped greatly.

Daily Painting #206 – Teacup with Tangerines
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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I have painted this teacup a few times before, and each time, the design on the cup changes. I haven’t really painted the original design as it appears on the cup, but the one in A Lemon and a Teacup is the closest.

Here are the other paintings featuring this teacup:

Daily Painting #205 – Burnt Out Matches
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm
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