Claudia Hammer, a Painting a Day

Friday, April 8, 2011

Catching some sun 12"x16" oil on canvas

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She sat in a beach chair looking at the waves in the ocean, listening to the seagulls overhead. The roar of the ocean drowned all the memories of the previous day. She was in the here and now, present in the sun... the only thing amiss was that the sun did not move.

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Thursday, April 7, 2011

One coffee, two sugars 6"x6" oil

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I love to see these all lined up neat and tidy. Now only if my desk looked this way.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Black, no sugar 6"x6" oil

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Personally I like my coffee black, no sugar. Recently got this white pot with four matching mugs and have been waiting for the right moment to use it. I love the round shape. :-)

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Tea with sugar 6"x6" oil

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Want some whiskey in your water,

sugar in your tea.

What's all these crazy questions they askin' me?

This is the craziest party that could ever be.

Don't turn on the lights, cause I don't want to see.

Mama told me not to come.

That ain't the way to have fun, no.

(Three Dog Night)

Monday, April 4, 2011

Sugar & Cream and the kids 6"x6" oil

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Continuing on the sugar theme, adding cream seemed like the thing to do. Don't the kids look cute all playing nice together.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Stacked sugar 6"x6" oil

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Looking at the side of the box it says that the ingredient is sugar. What do they use to make it stick together in a cube? Some form of moisture and pressure I guess or do they use glue and don't want to tell us. Do they make each one individually or are they made in a large sheet and cut. I googled the question and there are some pretty funny answers.

Friday, April 1, 2011

B. Resting 9"x12" oil

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This was our second session with this model and as usual I stood in a different spot. I might like this perspective better than last week's.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Sugar cubed 6"x6" oil on gessobord

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This painting was done using a limited palette, burnt umber, ultramarine blue, yellow ochre, white, burnt sienna. I like the lack of "color".

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Sugar 6"x6" oil on gessobord

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Here is the big storage jar for sugar with its big eared cousin, Sugar Bowl and partner Spoon. Aren't they sweet!

Monday, March 28, 2011

Mom's mixer 16"x16" oil on wood

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I was not able to paint today but I thought I would take this opportunity to show one of my larger works. This recently won an honorable mention in a show here in Louisville. This is my Mother's mixer from the 1950's and still the mixer I use today. It is a General Electric with three blades.

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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Violin player 12"x16" oil on canvas

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This lovely woman was our model today and I was thankful to be there. I love the fact that she brought her violin.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Red robe 12" x 16" oil

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It used to be that nudes were all we painted and drew on Friday in our "Go Figure" group then we got so tired of doing them that we switched to clothed figures and portraits. Now we have been doing those so long that we thought we would have a nude today. I guess too much of any one thing is too much. So here is my art for today.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Salty 6"x6" oil

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As long as I'm doing salt I thought I would include all my salt. In the large jar I keep my large granule kosher salt which I usually use unless I'm baking, and the eight sided shaker is the sea salt leaving the square shaker the table salt... and there you have it.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Popular Twosome 6"x6" oil

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Here is that popular twosome! Again!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

On the Table 6"x6" oil

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Having spring fever yesterday compelled me to play hooky. Today someone else inhabited my body and painted this painting. I swear it was not me! It was like I had never painted before, it was all so foreign to me but I kept at it and it is finally done. Whew!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Red chair 9"x12" oil

Here is my attempt today from the Saturday portrait group.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Salt & Sneeze 6"x6" oil

Moving on to another subject seemed like a good idea this morning. And I am sticking to it.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Sun Bathers 6"x6" oil

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While the urge is strong I can not simply scrape off my life and start over, however that is exactly what I did to my painting today. I rubbed out the oil can I was working on painted these bottles. Momma said there'd be days like this.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Inner Glow 6"x6" oil

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Every bottle in my house wants to look like the one in the middle. They all want to have that inner glow just like they had a flashlight up their... ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Raspberry Julep 6"x6" oil

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I like having the background in the same family as the subject and the silver julep cup just mirrors all the same colors. cool!

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Giving you the raspberries 6"x6" oil

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Thought I would try a more dramatic set up. I like the background, flower and berries being in the same color family because it makes the flower almost disappear and all you notice is a little texture. Making the raspberries more bright pinkish orange makes them stand out. Tried to see them just as a whole shape with color value changes. Fun!

Friday, March 11, 2011

Sittin pretty 9"x12" oil

The sun is out today and everything looks great! Daffodils are in bloom! Thought I would try something different today, concentrate on the whole instead of just a head. It was fun!

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Lincoln in gris and color two 6"x8" oil paintings

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This was the Daily PaintWorks Challenge of the week. I did not paint them side by side but painted the grey one first then the color version. I loved painting the gris version because you are only concerned with value which I am always stressing the importance of it to my students. At one point he looked like Henry Fonda! Love the little cowlick in his hair! Had to make both of them off center just to please me.

In a description of himself he stated that his skin was dark and his eyes were grey. Had to give him a red tie, a spot of red is always nice don't you think! And it makes him so dressy which I'm sure he hated. It was a challenge to paint the two of them in the same time I would have painted one! Well I did go over the time limit I set on myself by 30 minutes. Fun challenge, I even dreamed about it last night.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Poison 6"x6" oil

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The poison is Resorcinol, what ever that is. I don't think I will use it in the sauce tonight. The middle bottle is labeled Bryonia which seems to be an irritant poison and then there is the Pluto water laxative. I wonder what would happen if I mix them all together...

Monday, March 7, 2011

Little Green Pluto 6"x6" oil

I know a couple that are both pharmacist and they kindly loaned me a few old bottles that they have. The little green bottle is a liquid laxative labeled PLUTO. Is that because it will send you to outer space after taking it? The large bottle in the foreground is from the manufacture Mallinckrodt and has a label on the side that is hand dated back in 1957. I'm sure it is past it's expiration date.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Is that me? 6"x6" oil

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As I get older when I pass a mirror I think "who is that? Is that me?" And most of the time it is.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

The usual suspects 6"x6" oil

Believe it or not these are the same bottles I used in yesterday's painting. I like this set up better because of the way the light comes through the bottles. It has much more drama which makes for brighter color. Interesting experiment. I guess this is another series. At first I always think I will just do a subject for one or two times and then move on to something that I can make into a series but what often happens is that the subject becomes the series because I keep thinking of things to do with them. This is my fourth bottle painting so I guess I am doing a series of them. Do you know that I did this without even discussing it with myself first! The gall!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Cotton seed oil 6"x6" oil

Back in the studio today slaving away on some newly acquired bottles. The one with the milky substance is Cotton seed oil, I don't think they use it to oil cotton seeds, what do they use it for?

Monday, February 28, 2011

Grapes and pears 8"x10" oil

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This is also from the Bill Fletcher workshop I attended this past weekend. It was our last painting and a more complicated set up and we had a little less than three hours to start and complete. So under the gun or should I say timer we painted away, laughed and giggled until the time was up. Ding!

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Vase with oranges 8"x10" oil

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Day two at the Bill Fletcher workshop. Here I chose to work on light and shadow, having a halo on the white object and keeping it painterly. I think I did better on this one, we had almost an hour of painting time.

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