The slumber party 6" x 6" oil

These little peppers were having such a good time dancing the Cha Cha when all of a sudden they all felt exhausted and dropped in their tracks and fell asleep.   The Club owner found them the next morning all sprawled out on the dance floor perfectly content.

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The Witness 6" x 6" oil

Is the red pepper the witness?   Or is the apple in hiding the witness?  I guess it depends on what they were a witness to!   You know, I have been listening to some murder mysteries and I think it is seeping into my work!    It's shocking!

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Study in Yellow 6"x6" oil

This one was hard!   I started on it yesterday and worked on and off all day and by 4:00 the light was gone, time to quit.   Worked on it this morning and finished it finally!!   This took way too long but I think in the end it worked out right.   The photo here did not capture the right shades of yellow but I am so over it!!   I really should do a painting in blue so I at least have one of every primary color.   These would look so cool all together in a grouping!   Thank you Liz Wiltzen for coming up with this exercise!  The large pepper was the hardest for me because of all the fussy shapes around the stem.   My palette was: Titanium white, Cad. lemon yellow, Cad. yellow med, Cad. red light, Ultramarine blue, Thalo blue, Winsor Newton Bt. sienna

Here is the b&w photo of the painting and a b&w photo of the set-up for comparison.  

Glad this one is done!

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Study in Red 6"x6" oil

Through out the holidays I have been thinking about an exercise that Liz Wiltzen wrote about in her blog about "Using vivid color to flex your value muscle".   It is a very helpful exercise to work on getting your values correct.    Check out her exercise here.   In order to get the red dark enough in the shadow sides you need to mix your red with a blue or green.   Just using a darker red will not work.  Here is the photo of it in black and white to make sure the values are where they need to be.

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Napping 6"x6" oil

Red and Orange were exhausted from all the days activity so they decided to just be still for a little nap. This is my fourth painting for DPW's Weekly Challenge.   So now I can post them on the site.   It was good for me especially since I have not been painting as often.   I felt with each painting that I was starting from scratch and had forgotten how to paint!   I feel that these four paintings are a little different style than my usual of late.

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Don't look! 6" x 6" oil

Orange did not want Red to see how clumsy he was so he told Red not to look while he climbed in the cup.   This is the third painting for DPW's Weekly Challenge.  It is the 4 in 4 challenge, I misread the instructions and thought it was 4 paintings using the same 4 objects, quite similar to how I do my series, but nooooo, when I read it again after painting my first two I noticed it was supposed to be a cup (or object of choice) and 3 different  colored pieces of paper.    Oh well!   I decided to continue with what I had started.   Sorry Carol!

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Hide and seek 6"x6" oil

These two decided to play hide and seek.   Red doesn't think Orange will find him, what do you think?

I painted this to enter into Daily Paintworks Challenge for the week.  This is the first of four paintings with four objects.   Ok... I did not read the fine print before I started and it is supposed to be an object with four pieces of colored paper.  Well, I am close.   I painted four objects, a cup, two peppers and blue paper. Since I have painted two paintings with these objects I am going to continue with that theme. 

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"Who's next?"

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I thought this was going to be easy. Right there was my first mistake. It was more difficult because the items were so thin and I couldn't use a large brush. But despite the struggle I think it turned out well.