Daily Paintings

Pearls from the Orient: Daily Paintings by Faith Te
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A little while back, I compiled my first book on Blurb.com containing some of the small paintings from my “365 Daily Painting Project”. The paintings are grouped into four categories: Food and Drink, Things, Flowers and Outdoors. The book measures approximately 6.75″ square. It has 80 pages and includes a few full page close-ups of details as well.

I recently received my copy of the book and below are a few pictures of the inside pages. You may also view all the pages in the book here. I hope you like it — thank you so much for looking!

Daily Painting #191 – Happy New Year
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
SOLD

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
SOLD

Here’s another one from the daily painting archives. It’s chilly here today.

Daily Painting #301 – Orange Slices
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 8 x 6 inches — 20 x 15 cm
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I have been looking back on the first 365 daily paintings and digging out a few of my favorites. Here’s another one.

Also, I started showing my work on Etsy a while back. If you haven’t heard of Etsy, it’s an online store where you can buy and sell handmade and vintage items. You may check out the paintings I have in my Etsy shop here: faithteart.etsy.com. Thank you for looking!

Daily Paintings #260 and #261 – Tangerine Wedge No. 1 and No. 2
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
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Here are two more of my most favorite daily paintings from the past. I couldn’t help making the first of these tangerine wedges a companion piece because I loved the background color so much.

Doing the “dailies” gave me opportunity to paint subjects I would never have tried otherwise. Some were easy, some a lot of fun and some were challenging. One that I would categorize in all three are water puddles: easy because they are basically just shadow color with highlights; challenging when reflections come into play, but either way, fun to paint!

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
Private Collection

Some of you may remember this bowl of rice painting I did many, many months ago. I wasn’t pleased with how it turned out so I gave it a makeover and here’s what it looks now. Hope you like it better. I used the Mars Red again to intensify the reds and deepen the background a little.

Daily Painting #365 – Avocado Halves
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 8 inches — 15 x 20 cm
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Yay! Here it is! The 365th daily painting! I have to mention that I actually completed this painting quite a while ago but only managed to post it today as there were some rough roads during the latter part of this journey. Blogging about the paintings consistently once per day was easy enough at the start but personal issues came in during the last several months which stretched out the postings. If some of you waited regularly for the paintings, I apologize for this.

The good news though is that I did manage to complete all 365 small paintings in 365 days, with the exception of one day when I worked on this bigger non-daily painting instead:

I made up for that when I painted these two chilis in one day though:

I am really excited to be able to show all of you this milestone (for me). I can’t say how grateful I am to everyone who purchased my paintings — thank you so much for your support! And not least, I am also thankful to those of you who took the time to comment and patiently shared this journey with me. For those who commented during the past several months, I have not been able to reply to most of you personally but I want you all to know just how much I appreciate your words of encouragement. Here’s a virtual hug to everyone!

Just for fun, here is the 365th side by side with the very first daily painting I did:

Here is a picture showing the painting on the easel where I did virtually all of the “dailies”:

And last, here are those avocados one more time. Behind me you can see a preview of what’s coming up on this blog:

Daily Painting #364 – Lemon Wheel No. 3
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
SOLD

Two of my fellow members at Daily Painter Originals, Leslie Saeta and Dreama Tolle Perry, are holding a fundraiser to help artist Annie Salness who recently had a stroke. She is recovering and the funds raised from the “Art Walk for Annie” campaign will help pay her medical expenses. I am donating the proceeds from the sale of this painting to the fund. If you would like to know more about “Art Walk for Annie” or how you can help her, please visit this website that Leslie has put together.

By the way, this is the next to last painting before the 365th.

Daily Painting #363 – Lollipop
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
SOLD

I am growing very fond of painting lollipops. This one with the wrapper still on is my favorite.

Daily Painting #362 – Glass Bottle No. 2
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 4 x 7 inches — 10 x 18 cm
Private Collection

Daily Painting #361 – Lemon on Wood
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 5 x 7 inches — 13 x 18 cm

I’m not sure why but I had a very difficult time trying to get the colors to match the original painting and some parts are still a bit off. This is now #361 — getting really close to the “finish line”!

Daily Painting #360 – Okra
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
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Only 5 more to post to complete the first 365 of daily paintings! Here’s a new subject — okra. I have considered painting them for quite some time now, but I never got around to it because I couldn’t find a composition I wanted to paint.

Daily Painting #359 – A Rose
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
SOLD

Daily Painting #358 – Cocoa
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
SOLD

Daily Painting #357 – Wooden Posts
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
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Daily Painting #356 – Shrimp in Small Bowl
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 5 x 5 inches — 13 x 13 cm
SOLD

I did a painting of a shrimp a while back. Here’s one that’s cooked.

Daily Painting #355 – Pretzel
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 5 x 5 inches — 13 x 13 cm
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Daily Painting #354 – Lemon Half with Knife
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
SOLD

Daily Painting #353 – Red Tomato
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
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For inquiries, e-mail me at: faith@artisticrealism.com

Daily Painting #352 – Garlic Sprouts
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
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Playing a little with “glowing edges” around those green sprouts. This is something I would like to incorporate more into my work. I think it adds a lot of drama to a painting.

Daily Painting #351 – Digestive
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
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Daily Painting #350 – Lemon Wheel No. 2
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
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This lemon wheel completes the series of three citrus slices that I did some time ago. The other two were an orange wheel and a lime wheel. I included an image below to show all three side by side.

Daily Painting #349 – Tomato Wedge on Wood
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
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One more slice of tomato.

Daily Painting #348 – Tomato Slice
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
SOLD

Daily Painting #347 – Late Afternoon Backyard
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 5 x 6.5 inches — 13 x 17 cm
SOLD