Still Life with Squash, Oil on Linen, 28″ x 30″
Winter Geraniums, Oil on Panel, 20″ x 24″
Modern Traditional Paintings and Drawings
Still Life with Squash, Oil on Linen, 28″ x 30″
Winter Geraniums, Oil on Panel, 20″ x 24″
I’m moving inside, thinking about still life and figurative work now that the weather is too cold for landscape painting.
Quiet study, I could have worked on it for longer but had to move things for other studio activities, so another painting ends without being a masterpiece. Such is life. 🙂 I like it anyway, but, you know, I’d like it more if it were better.
I did work on it long enough to tilt all the grays so the painting seems colorful.
Last painting of 2014.
I have not shown a lot of new work on my blog this past year, I have been working super hard though, I’m 65% (give or take) of the way finished with a larger project that has taken me MONTHS and MONTHS. I have a deadline of March First Friday to more or less complete the work, so stay tuned!
I’ve also been painting a portrait of my daughter that is taking a long time as well.
Smithfields has another painting to replace the Rabbit that found a good home. I painted this one on a high shelf while I was sitting down and it is hanging above the vegetable piece (like so) and the perspective kind of works together in the room. Not quite trompe-l’oeil but sort of tromp-l’oeil inspired.
Albertons floral section here we come – I’m pumping out the floral paintings for my two person show at Ashland Painters Union. I thought I was going to do a floral show last September and use natural garden and field flowers, but it’s hot house instead. I do love carnations, so I’m going to pick some more up today for the next one. Maybe it will be ALL carnations. Anyway. Here’s this one:
(Disclaimer – I took this photo before varnishing this piece, yes it is sort of blotchy in the background and table, but not this bad. I’ll reshoot after I can varnish it.)
My latest piece for Smithfields. My working title is Water. Titles -eh. They’re hard. They either very robotic for me, or very silly and embarrassing. I am not a writer.
I was playing with echoes in this piece – the male figure and the crab both have bent knees, orange color. The woman has a mermaid tattoo (hard to make out), the baby and the fish have their mouths open. The baby and the fish recently came out of the water.