Berries 'n cream 6"x6" oil

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About half way through I started getting discouraged and had to step away.   After returning I carried on and was happily painting away when I noticed I was eating the berries!   This is what happens when your still life is within reach and in this case it was right below my easel.   I slapped my self on my wrist and told myself that I would have to wait until the painting is done.    That was an incentive to finish.

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One lump or two? 6"x6" oil

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Looking straight down on a set up is one of my favorite vantage points.   I put a small table right in front of my easel, set it up and there it is!  Voila!   My favorite part beside the fact the vantage point is red reflections on the objects around the red pot.

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One for tea 6"x6" oil

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I struggle to keep it from being perfect and nit-picky.  My favorite parts on this set up are the reflected lights in the shadows.   To me the discovery of painting wet into wet and being able to manipulate the paint and edges is what it is about.   At least this is where I am at in my art path.

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Gyspy wagon 6"x8" oil

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While going through some old photos I came across this photo I took in New Mexico.   It reminded me of a gypsy wagon I saw while traveling in Ireland.   I wonder who had it and how they used it.

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Red teapot 6"x6" oil

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Over the years people have been giving me paint that they find in a yard sale or paint that someone left behind so I have accumulated quite a bit of paint.   Since I use a limited palette there are quite a number of colors that I might never use.   Today I was thinking about what red I will use so I got out all my paint and American Vermilion.   I wonder why they call it American??

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Sugar or Cream? 6"x6" oil

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Sugar cubes are so much fun to paint.   Personally I like my coffee black but love the images and rituals of sugar and cream.    The shadow made by the sugar bowl looks like big ears.  Love that!

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Sweet black coffee 6"x6" oil

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It is good to be painting again.   

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Blues n greens 6"x6" oil

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A decision was made today to get back to painting more often.   The break has been nice and I feel energized and ready to start a new round of painting.   Here was my first attempt and I feel a little rusty and first thought that I had forgotten how to paint but it all came back to me.   Almost like riding a bike without the danger of falling off.

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H.K. in an asian dress 9"x12" oil

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I paint with a limited palette and when she showed up with this fabulous silk dress the two reds I had did not capture the color.   I had Cad. Red light and Alizarin Crimson and I needed Quinacridone Red so I added that when I got home.  

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Redhead in black 9"x12" oil

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This was a happy involuntary experiment.  I arrived at the Friday "Go Figure" session without any Gamsol (thinner) so I decided to paint with just paint.   Having no thinner also meant that I could not clean off my brushes in between colors and no wiping off any false starts.   I piled paint on my brushes and forged ahead.   I am happy the way it turned out.    Maybe I will forget my thinner more often.  This is what happens when you have too much time off from painting.

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