Daily Paintings

Daily Painting #89 – Oncidium Orchids Diptych
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 8 inches — 14 x 20 cm
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Taking an inspiration from yesterday’s cabbage painting, this one also has a similar background design. This painting is meant to be part of a diptych. I will post the other half tomorrow, so stay tuned!

Daily Painting #88 – Cabbage on Wood Block
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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This is a cute cabbage measuring only about 10 centimeters or 4 inches long. The one in my painting, I mean, not my real subject.

I was having problems with the background at first. Initially, it looked like the wood block was floating, so I scraped off the top part of the background to try and correct it. I thought it looked more interesting that way so I just left the top part “unfinished”. Hope you like it!

Daily Painting #87 – Dried Mushroom Trio
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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 #86 – The Last Stick
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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 #85 – Asparagus and Potatoes
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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 zoomed in really close to the asparagus. I thought I’d experiment a bit with focus so I made some of the edges blurry.

Daily Painting #84 – Eggplant 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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Another painting of one of my most favorite vegetables. It’s funny, but the two eggplant dishes that I love to eat most have eggs as one of the ingredients. I think they go very well in a dish together. I’m not sure if those two dishes are what they had in mind when they called this vegetable “eggplant”, but I think the name is perfect for it!

The very first eggplant painting I did was posted about two weeks ago. It was great fun to paint, so I decided to do another one. I liked this eggplant’s curved shape and chose a light background to feature it.

Daily Painting #83 – Leaning Lychee Leaf
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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 posting two oil paintings today, both featuring lychee leaves. In the painting above, I tried a new background design. I used a stiff bristle brush and fairly thick white paint in order to achieve the “sketchy” edges. I am happy with the result, but I’m thinking that this may be more interesting if the board had some burnt sienna tint instead of just the white gesso.

Water Drops on Lychee Leaf
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 4 x 2 7/8 inches — 10.16 x 7.3 cm
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This was done almost two months ago. It is the smallest painting I have posted so far. It’s not part of the daily painting series although it was done in one sitting as well. I initially wanted to do a study of water drops, but I couldn’t decide where to put them until I saw this leaf.

Daily Painting #82 – Bell Pepper Halves
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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Here’s the other bell pepper in daily painting #74. It has turned more orange since. My favorite part to paint were the little seeds.

Daily Painting #81 – Cupcake
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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 painted this for the Different Strokes from Different Folks Cupcake Challenge. I am pleased with the result. My favorite part is the little bit of cake showing under the frosting.

This is my first submission to the Different Strokes blog, by the way. It’s fun to look at others’ paintings, and it’s great to see the many different ways artists can approach a subject.

Daily Painting #80 – Ya Pear
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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 #79 – Banana
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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 #78 – Halved Bell 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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This is one of the bell peppers that I used in daily painting #74.

Daily Painting #77 – Strung Green Peppers
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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 love this composition. I also like the green against the burnt sienna background. I think I will do another one like this in the future but with red chili peppers instead.

REFERENCE PICTURES: Green Chili Peppers

A few weeks before I began doing a painting a day, I took a good number of pictures which I planned to use for reference. Well, I ended up painting mostly from life, using photographs only on occasion. The pictures were helpful for visualizing compositions and lighting though. Here are some of the more interesting shots:

Daily Painting #76 – Ya Pear Wrapped in Paper
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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 really hated this while I was working on it. I had no idea how I would approach the layers of wrinkled paper, and getting the color of the pear right was a struggle as well because it almost always turned out too gray. Funny how after staring at the finished painting for a few hours it has become one of my most favorite. I like the contrast of the texture and thick paint of the paper against the smoothness of the pear.

Daily Painting #75 – Green Lemons
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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 think I’m in a green mood lately — after green chili peppers and green bell peppers, here are some green lemons.

I wasn’t sure if these were limes or just green, unripe lemons. I researched on the internet and found that limes are much denser and would sink in a bowl of water. These floated so I guess they’re green lemons.

Daily Painting #74 – Green Bell Peppers
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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My Mom thought these two bell peppers would make good painting subjects, especially how one was turning yellow/orange at the top. My favorite is the green one that’s resting on its side though. It’s amazing how even a faint reflected light can make a painted subject look more realistic.

Daily Painting #73 – Green Chili Pepper Family
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 6.5 x 6.5 inches — 16.5 x 16.5 cm
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As the title suggests, here’s papa chili, mama chili and baby chili! Lately, I have been using thicker paint, especially for the brightest highlights.

Daily Painting #72 – Wooden Spoon with Garlic Cloves
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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 #71 – Orange Half
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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 didn’t get a chance to post this earlier today. For this painting, I wanted to do a study of an orange flesh. I have done a few oranges before, but making the flesh look realistic and juicy was the most difficult to pull off. The background was inspired by yesterday’s eggplant painting.

Daily Painting #70 – Eggplant
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm

My first time to paint an eggplant. I think this is one of my most favorite color combinations so far — violet and yellowish brown.

Daily Painting #69 – Uphill
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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 moved up the beach where there were some grass growing.

Daily Painting #68 – Along the Beach
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 6 inches — 14 x 15.5 cm
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The first landscape. This one was painted from a photo that I took on my first visit to a beach. Standing in front of an ocean along a quiet beach does make one feel very small indeed!

This is just the second time I’ve used a photograph to paint from in the daily painting series. I used to work exclusively from photographs, but after 60 or so daily paintings, I have grown fond of painting from life as I am able to see and observe details more.

Daily Painting #67 – Orange 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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An experiment with blue and orange.

Daily Painting #66 – Sewing Buttons
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5 1/2 x 6 1/8 inches — 14 x 15.6 cm
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I wanted to move away from fruits and vegetables for a while so I did this needle, thread and button painting.

I think I am slowly able to tolerate some brushstrokes showing. It used to be that I’d completely blend away all traces of the brush because if any was showing, it just didn’t feel “finished”.

I love tightly rendered paintings, but I also love those which are brushy. There is a battle within me as I haven’t decided which style to pursue yet. Hopefully, as I continue this painting-a-day journey, I’ll be able to determine which style I am most happy with.

Daily Painting #65 – Red Peppers
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
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