Daily Paintings

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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Daily Painting #303 – Tea
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Oil painting on hardboard
Approximately 6 x 6 inches — 15 x 15 cm
SOLD

Daily Painting #246 – Tea and Tangerine
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
Not for Sale

I would like the teacup to look more translucent so I will give this painting a second layer. I am also trying to use my tube of phthalo blue more so I used it on the background here.

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 #221 – Tea and Cookie
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Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm

I had a hard time making the colors look accurate on the computer screen. The background is actually much softer and lighter than it appears here.

Daily Painting #218 – My Cup of Tea
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ACEO oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches — 6.5 x 9 cm

I am not much of a tea drinker, but I just recently discovered that tea is especially delicious after eating cookies.