Daily Paintings

Daily Painting #171 – Kiwi Halves
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
Click here for purchasing information
For inquiries, e-mail me at: faithpencilartist@gmail.com

I purposely left the background unfinished in this kiwi painting for added interest.

Daily Painting #170 – Onion Half with Knife
(Click image for larger version)

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 #160 – Peeling Potatoes
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
SOLD

Potatoes are so much fun to paint! I am very pleased with how this turned out, but there is a lot of glare showing in the scan, especially in the peeler’s handle area. In reality, it is quite smooth and even. I’ll try to get a better scan of this later if I can and change the image.

Edit: Image replaced with improved version.

Daily Painting #155 – Salted Fish
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
Click here for purchasing information
For inquiries, e-mail me at: faithpencilartist@gmail.com

Here’s a popular food here in the Philippines. They are small, dried salted fish locally called “tuyo”.

Daily Painting #153 – Pear on Wood
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
Click here for purchasing information
For inquiries, e-mail me at: faithpencilartist@gmail.com

Here’s a painting of a Ya pear on wood. I usually struggle with pears, but this one seemed to paint itself. I also added the little screw to add interest.

Daily Painting #151 – Peeled Onion with Marble Potatoes
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
Click here for purchasing information
For inquiries, e-mail me at: faithpencilartist@gmail.com

I’m back to my usual subjects of food and kitchen items.

Daily Painting #147 – Orange and Red
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
SOLD

We bought a small bouquet of these little rosebuds a while back. I kept painting them until they wilted and lost their shape, so I will be posting rose paintings for a few days.

Daily Painting #142 – Oranges No. 2
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
Click here for purchasing information
For inquiries, e-mail me at: faithpencilartist@gmail.com

Daily Painting #139 – Gala Apple
(Click image for larger version)

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

Daily Painting #138 – Pear Halves
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches — 14 x 19 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
Click here for purchasing information
For inquiries, e-mail me at: faithpencilartist@gmail.com

Daily Painting #136 – Grapes with Leaf No. 2
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
SOLD

Here’s something a little new today. With the help of my brother, David, I made a video as I was painting this. This is my very first video demonstration. I wasn’t able to post anything yesterday because I was trying to figure out how to do this properly.

In the movie, you will see the progress of this painting — from blank board to the final stage. I filmed most of the painting process, but I wasn’t able to include the last few minutes because I ran out of tape! Anyway, I sped this up quite a bit to make it fit the 10-minute limit for YouTube videos.

I hope to do more demonstrations like this in the future. Comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Please let me know what you like about it (and what you don’t like!) so that I can improve future videos. Enjoy!

Daily Painting #133 – Grapes No. 2
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 9 x 3.5 inches — 23 x 9 cm
US$100 — free shipping worldwide
Click here for purchasing information
For inquiries, e-mail me at: faithpencilartist@gmail.com

More grapes today. I’m not sure if I can call these wide sizes “panoramic”, but I really enjoy painting on them.

Daily Painting #132 – Grape and Teacup
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
US$100 — free shipping
For inquiries, e-mail me at: faithpencilartist@gmail.com

Click here to bid

Daily Painting #131 – Grapes
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 8 x 3.75 inches — 20 x 9.5 cm
Private Collection

I have done two paintings of grapes before. Although I love eating grapes, painting them was a different story. Getting the bloom on the grapes to look right was difficult and I also had trouble keeping the paint smooth. Anyway, I tried it once again and this was the result. I am quite pleased with it. It was great fun to do…I can’t imagine why I didn’t paint grapes more often!

Daily Painting #130 – Peeled Orange
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 5.5 x 5.5 inches — 14 x 14 cm
US$100 plus shipping
For purchasing information, please e-mail me: faith@artisticrealism.com

Daily Painting #127 – Green Bell Pepper
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 6.25 x 6.25 inches — 15.5 x 15.5 cm
US$100 plus shipping
For purchasing information, please e-mail me: faith@artisticrealism.com

Daily Painting #124 – Apple and Plate
(Click image for larger version)

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 #117 – Painting Spatula
(Click image for larger version)

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

Here is one of my painting friends. I use her most everyday and she’s there to rescue me whenever a painting turns out looking muddy.

Daily Painting #111 – Green Chili Pepper No. 2
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 4 x 3 inches — 10 x 7.5 cm
US$45 plus shipping
For purchasing information, please e-mail me: faith@artisticrealism.com

Daily Painting #110 – Green Apple on Doily
(Click image for larger version)

Oil painting on gessoed matboard
Approximately 4 x 3 inches — 10 x 7.5 cm
US$45 plus shipping
For purchasing information, please e-mail me: faith@artisticrealism.com

I ran out of ACEO cards to paint on so here’s something just a little bit bigger. This painting has a similar composition to yesterday’s Orange with Doily.

Daily Painting #109 – Orange with Doily
(Click image for larger version)

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 #102 – Morning Cup of Chocolate
(Click image for larger version)

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

I like how cute and small the mug turned out in ACEO format.

Daily Painting #100 – 100
(Click image for larger version)

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

Well, here’s my 100th daily painting! I wanted to paint something special so this is bigger than the ACEOs I have been posting lately. I also searched quite a bit for that special subject and/or composition. At first, I thought I’d do another avocado like the first daily painting, but since I couldn’t get any avocados, I settled on oranges. I chose this composition because I think it represents “100″ perfectly without being too obvious.

I’m dedicating this painting to my Mom, who encouraged me to do the daily paintings in the first place, and who’s been very supportive.

It’s been a good 100 days and I’ve learned so much about oil painting. I’ve been able to paint ordinary things which I never thought would have potential in a painting before. It’s truly a wonderful experience to slow down and examine details and all the beautiful things that God has created for us. Everything is beautiful!

There is still so much to learn, and my plan is to keep this up for at least a year. But we’ll see where it goes. One thing’s for sure though — I’m looking forward to the next 100! I hope you are too!

Thank you to friends and subscribers who left comments and gave their support! Also, many thanks to other daily painters, especially to Michael Naples and Painting-a-Day pioneer Duane Keiser, for the inspiration.

Daily Painting #92 – A Pair of Pears in Shadow
(Click image for larger version)

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

Daily Painting #88 – Cabbage on Wood Block
(Click image for larger version)

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

This is a cute cabbage measuring only about 10 centimeters or 4 inches long. The one in my painting, I mean, not my real subject.

I was having problems with the background at first. Initially, it looked like the wood block was floating, so I scraped off the top part of the background to try and correct it. I thought it looked more interesting that way so I just left the top part “unfinished”. Hope you like it!