"Fluffy, pondering" 6"x6" oil painting

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"Well Scarlett, do you think I should return to work?  I've had such a nice time of lazing around.   Harry O"Green and I have been watching movies and eating buttery popcorn.    I can hear the squishing of paint tubes calling me back to the palette."    Fluffy is reluctant to start up her daily routine.  She just wants to run away to Argentina and Tango.    But that takes two!  

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"Double decker" 6"x6", oil on canvas

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I had this little bowl and put a green apple in it and then thought it needed something else like a red apple.   I just happened to have one.

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"Fruit Less" 6"x6" oil on canvas

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I got this beautiful bowl  so I could use it in my daily paintings.   I love the black outside with the green inside.   A Friend gave me a Gift basket with all this delicious fruit in it so I thought I would paint some of them.    I'm trying out some new brushes and trying to get used to them.   It is amazing what a difference it makes to change one little thing.   I'm not sure if I like them or not.

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"Fruit Full" 6"x6" oil on canvas

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I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  I'm finally back and looking forward to a "Fruit Full" new year!   My Family is not big on computers or the internet.   They don't really understand what it is that I do.   It is so hard to explain and they loose interest when I try.   So usually I don't even mention it.  It is good to be back in familiar territory.   My Shih Tzu thinks so too!

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"Madonna of Loreto" 18"x24"a detail copy of Caravaggio

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This is one of my early works when I was learning to paint in oils.   I believe I had been painting about a year and took a workshop on the Caravaggio method of painting.   I choose this detail of the Madonna of  Loreto, also known as Madonna of the Pilgrims.   Last month I had some wonderful giclee's made of this piece.      I'm going out of town today and this will be my last email until I return.   There is no internet where I'm going.   Aren't I lucky.   If you are interested in this print I will contact you when I get back to civilization.

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"Guard Dog" 6"x6" oil on canvas

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These marbles need a lot of watching over.  One, they are in big demand and two, when they fall on the floor they roll everywhere and don't want to be found!   So this dog, we'll call him Iron Dog for now, will watch over them, keep them safe and report any problem that might come up.    His official duty is Chief Nutcracker but at the moment he's temporarily laid off from that job.

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"Fluffy & Harry" 6"x6" oil painting

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The other day, as you may remember, Fluffy was about to leap to a somewhat unknown future.   She did jump but only to the Irish Rover Pub where she met up with the notorious Harry O'Green.  He was quite famous for his smooth talking ways.  Scarlet and Razor Neck are keeping their eyes on them.   You see they have heard the rumors about Harry.

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"French Coffee Break" 5"x7" oil painting

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As it happens every so often, the model called in sick so I had to do a regular daily painting.   A friend loaned me her french coffee press to paint.   It was fun!  The coffee is dark brown but the surface was reflecting the green wall so I blended the two colors together with a little white.  The inside glass was steamy and dripping with condensation so I grayed it out with white, yellow ochre and a little green.  I know that there is some rule about never putting something in the middle of the composition but I like breaking the rules.   Actually there are always exceptions where the no no's become ah ha's!

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"Two to One" 6"x6", oil on canvas

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Found these pine cones on a friends drive and had to use them.  The pine cones were easy to block in.   I blocked in the outside shape with the dark then put in the middle tone, and last the highlights.

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"Fluffy, don't jump!" 5"x7" oil painting

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Fluffy approached the edge.    Scarlet was watching and shouted out "Fluffy, don't jump!"   Fluffy really didn't want to end her life, she just wanted to see what was below.   Wanted to experience a part of life that was unknown to her.   Scarlet and Shorty could not stop her.   No one could.

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"The Chanel Sisters" 6"x6" oil on canvas

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At first I thought this was going to be simple but it took twice as long to do.   Some of you know my process but for those that don't, here it is.   First, I take about 10 minutes and sketch in the composition with a medium grey paint.   When I paint these daily paintings I try to make my first stroke of paint my last.  In other words, I try to lay down the correct color/value of paint on each paint stroke so I don't have to go over it again and adjust.   It makes coming up with the correct color/value the challenge.   Usually this can shorten the amount of time spent but not today.

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"Olive Oyl & the Twins" 6"x6", oil on canvas

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It is definitely a challenge to come up with something to paint every day.   But I've realized that I can find something in every room that would be a possible painting.  A lot of you will recognize these.

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"Holly would, but..." 6"x6" oil painting

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Sometimes simple is better.  I had a ribbon to put in this set up but it just did not look right, too contrived.

So I replaced the ribbon with this simple bowl and the composition worked much better in my humble opinion.   I have a new schedule for my upcoming classes.  If you would like to be on my email class list and get the information emailed to you please contact me and let me know.   Please feel free to go to my website for the Class Information.

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"Store bought hair" 6"x6" oil painting

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As many of you know, I hire a model every Friday to pose for our "Go Figure Group", an open studio session for a group of dedicated artist.   We have the same pose for two 3-hour sessions.   Last week I posted this same model from a different view.   Today I thought the view from above and the right of her was interesting.   I hope you think so too.   It is challenging to come up with something different the second week.    When I started this group I needed 2 maybe 3 sessions to paint something worth keeping.   Now I use it as my daily painting so I have to get it done in one session, if not I have to paint another for my daily.

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"Cut it out!" 6"x6" oil

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While I have the ribbons out I had better do another one,  You know the challenge of doing daily paintings is choosing a subject every day that will challenge and satisfy the muse in me.   I like fabric so I like ribbons.

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"Bows" 6"x6" oil painting

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Tis the season!  Since I had the ribbon out, thought I'd make more bows.

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Fit to be tied 5"x7" oil painting

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Another dreary, rainy day.   I don't mind the rain so much as the darkness.   It's that time of year to get all the ribbon out.  I'm trying to get in the holiday mood.

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Separated at birth 5"x7" oil painting

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The last two days have been so busy I haven't been able to paint.  Saturday I had an open house and I want to thank everyone who came.   Thank you for making it a fabulous day!   Sunday was hectic with obligations and chores.   I want you to know that Whirly Girl (my little Shih Tzu) does not do any chores around the house so I end up doing them all including hers!   There was snow on the ground this morning.   I think winter is here.

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Purple hair, 6"x8" oil painting

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Our model came with this wonderful wig today.   We just had to use it!  It is so much fun to transform yourself with a wig.   Just put it on and presto you are someone else....well not really but you feel that you are.

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Squeaky hinge 5"x7"

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Does any one out there remember the slam of a wooden screen door?   This is a hinge that will do it!  I is such a tight spring that I can hardly move it, but with the right leverage like a wooded door, it would work perfectly!

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Mother's little helper 5"x7", oil painting

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I love my scissors.  I have a pair in every room of the house.  These are my largest pair of paper scissor, 14" long and my smallest sewing pair, 3.75" long.   I will have to do more paintings of  the other pairs.   I don't paint with a formula, I paint what I see.   The silver of the large pair was reflecting some blue that wan behind it.  The gold was made up of warm yellow and brown + cool yellow(greenish) and white.

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Threads, 7"x5" oil on canvas

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Thread, such a small thin little thing until you wind thousands of yards on a spool and get this wonderful mass of color.

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