Daily Paintings

Lemon Wedge
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
SOLD

The November issue of American Art Collector magazine has an article regarding “Small Works and Miniatures”. A group which I am proud to be a member of, Daily Painter Originals, has been featured within that article and my lemon painting above is one of the art shown.

I hope you will check out the magazine. Our short article starts on page 84.

And by the way, you can subscribe to the Daily Painter Originals mailing list if you’d like to receive in your inbox all the new artwork that are posted to the site everyday. There are 30 of us in the group so there is a good variety of styles and subject matter!

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 #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 #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 #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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For inquiries, e-mail me at: faith@artisticrealism.com

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 #240 – Lemon
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
US$70 — free shipping worldwide
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For inquiries, e-mail me at: faith@artisticrealism.com

Daily Painting #169 – Lemon Wheel
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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 shipping
For purchasing information, please e-mail me: faith@artisticrealism.com

Daily Painting #163 – Lemon Wedges
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
SOLD

Daily Painting #162 – A Lemon and a Teacup
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
Private Collection

In the Cup of Chocolate painting I posted yesterday, I used just three colors plus white: burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, yellow ochre and titanium white. For this painting, I substituted cadmium yellow lemon for the yellow ochre. I like how both turned out. I feel that using a very limited palette gives a painting an overall harmony.

Also, yesterday was the first day that I didn’t finish a painting. I did use my oil paints and worked on a new portrait though. If you’ve been following the Different Strokes from Different Folks blog, the latest challenge is the Year-End Portrait Swap. Ms. Jurick gave all participants photographs of other artists to paint from.

I started mine yesterday and am nearly finished with the underpainting. So far, so good. Below is a peek of what it looks so far.

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
US$100 plus shipping
For purchasing information, please e-mail me: faith@artisticrealism.com

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 #28 – Lemon and Mug
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Oil on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5 x 5 inches — 13 x 13 cm

It’s nice to finally be able to find use for this baby mug! It actually has a pattern on the outside, but I left that out in the painting. I’m sure I’ll paint it again in the future and maybe I’ll include the design then to give it more character.

Daily Painting #17 – Lemons
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Oil on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5 x 7 inches — 13 x 18 cm
Private Collection

Daily Painting #11 – Lemon on a Shelf
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Oil on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5 x 7 inches — 13 x 18 cm

I’ve always liked earthy colors so I tried using them on most of this painting, leaving the lemon with the only bright color.