Daily Paintings

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.

Tea Bag No. 2
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
SOLD

Daily Painting #328 – Jasmine Tea
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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 #321 – Ace of Hearts
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 8 inches — 15 x 20 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
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For inquiries, e-mail me at: faith@artisticrealism.com

Since today is Independence Day in America, I wish to greet all Americans a Happy Fourth of July!

Today is also a very special day for me because, like the title says, this is also my blog’s first anniversary! I should have posted the 365th daily painting around this time, but since I wasn’t able to keep my schedule, it will come a little (or a lot!) later than I expected. We’ll see though. I may have some more to say come the day I post that 365th painting, but for now, I just want to say THANK YOU! once again to all of you who visit my blog, those who enjoy my paintings, those who take time to send me their comments — you are all very special to me! Thank you!

Daily Painting #318 – Greens in Brown Paper Bag
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 8 inches — 15 x 20 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
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For inquiries, e-mail me at: faith@artisticrealism.com

Daily Painting #269 – Fragrant Pear Wrapped in Paper
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 8 inches — 15 x 20 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

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 #193 – Trompe L’Oeil with Flowers
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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
For shipping rates to other countries and other inquiries, please e-mail me: faith@artisticrealism.com

I really enjoyed painting “Happy New Year” so I decided to do another one with a similar concept. Thinking of subjects for these trompe l’oeils is just as much fun as painting them and trying to make them look realistic.

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

Here’s a new trompe l’oeil painting. For those who find this post a bit late with almost 2 weeks past now since New Year’s Day, I’ll explain. I started creating a painting a day on June 20, 2009, but I only managed to get this blog going on July 4, 2009. Although it means that I am always ahead by about 15 paintings, each one is posted to this blog in the order that I painted them. I didn’t plan the date before painting this trompe l’oeil and its turn only came up today.

Looking back, I am thankful that I have been able to finish one painting a day, except for one day when I painted two (red pepper and green pepper) and another day when I worked on a portrait instead of a daily painting.

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

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.