Daily Paintings

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.

Bowl of Rice with Soy Sauce
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 8 x 6 inches — 20 x 15 cm
SOLD

After a long (unintended) break, here is a new post to start the New Year right. I just recently bought a tube of Mars Red and I’m having a lot of fun with it. The background in the rice painting above was painted with it. Alone or with a bit of blue, it’s a gorgeous deep red color which is very opaque. So nice to paint with!

I hope you all enjoyed the holiday season. Happy New Year, my friends!

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 #365 – Avocado Halves
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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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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
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
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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 #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
US$80 — free shipping worldwide
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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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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 #349 – Tomato Wedge on Wood
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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

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 #345 – Two Eggplants
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 5 x 7 inches — 13 x 18 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
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I used the same green cloth as the one in the previous apple painting because I loved its silky texture and the fringe edge. So fun to paint!

Daily Painting #344 – An Apple in Shadow
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
Private Collection

Daily Painting #343 – Glass Jar
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
SOLD

Daily Painting #342 – Orange with Harmonica
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm

We’ve had this Hohner harmonica for decades although I still haven’t learned to play it. I’ve always wanted to paint it because of its antique look, but I could never find the perfect composition for it. For sure I’ll be doing another painting which will feature it better.

By the way, I keep forgetting to mention that artist Monica Burnette recently talked about edges in paintings on her blog and she featured my “Grapes in Small Bowl” in one of her posts. Check it out here! Thank you, Monica!

Daily Painting #341 – Glazed Donut
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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

My fellow members at Daily Painter Originals, Kelley MacDonald and Susan Roden, are having a donut exchange over at their blogs (more popularly known as the “Donut War”). They have been throwing donuts (paintings, of course) of all brands, shapes and colors — sugar-coated, frosted, jelly-filled, chocolate. Current status of the Donut war is a truce so, I think, this is as good a time as any to show my neutral, plain glazed donut.