A mess of berries 6"x6" oil

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I painted this on Monday but it was too dark to photograph by the time I had finished so I could not post.  How did all those berries get out of the bowl?

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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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Jen in a Dickins costume 11"x14" oil

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I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and there was no Bah Humbug!

May the new year bring you much joy and happiness.

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Hannah in red velvet 9"x12" oil

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Doesn't Hannah look good in this red velvet dress!  This was fun to paint, I believe it was a combination of the dress along with the elegance of the pose.   

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D in black and red 9"x12" oil

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With this head study I tried to use more color in describing the planes of the form.  It is a break through for me on applying color.  

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I am so happy to tell you that I got an honorable mention in the Mazin Gallery Annual Show with this painting.  Reading the newspaper.

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Deanna in dark sequins 12"x9" oil

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My goal on this painting was to let the brush strokes show and to be looser.  I walked the colors around the canvas to create color harmony.    I am happy with how it turned out.

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Sunny day at Shaker Village Ky 8"x10" oil

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Shaker Village is an historic site here in Kentucky.   It is one of America's largest restored community which has 34 restored buildings and 3,000 acres of preserved farmland.   It also has more than 25 miles of stone walls that were made up of local limestone.  Irish imagrants started the walls and passed their craft on to black slaves who became masters at building the rock walls.   Only 5 or 10% of these 19th century dry stone walls exhist today.  Click here for more information.

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Maddie in green

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Maddie was kind enough to model for us on her day off from school.   Painting her hair was my favorite part so I left it to last.

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Three red trees 6"x8" oil

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On a sunny day last week, while driving down River Road I came across these small red trees being lit up by the sun.   I pulled over and took a picture.  Just like Bob Ross would say "Happy little trees".   

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Victoria Kelly 8"x8" oil

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We have always know her as Kelly which we found out was her middle name and her first name is Victoria.  So in the southern tradition of using two names she is now Victoria Kelly.    Today, as a challenge we had V.K. leave her glasses on.   I rather like it!

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Victoria 8"x10" oil

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Victoria was our model today.   She is a performance artist and makes costumes and designs clothes that she sells in a boutique.   I think she made her feather earrings too.

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The Masquerader 9"x12" oil

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The model today brought a mask to wear which was great fun to paint.  This is almost a two hour effort.   I am happy with this one.   For once I used enough paint and did not overwork it.

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Cottage in Provence 6"x8" oil

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Found this picture in my stash from visiting southern France a few years ago.   One thing I loved about driving through the countryside there was the colorful horizontal bands of fields.   They varied everywhere you looked.

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Woodford Reserve Large and small 6"x6" oil

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I love those tiny little miniatures liquor bottles they are baby renditions of the big guys. 

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Saint-Paul asylum in Saint Remy France 8"x10" oil

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Saint-Paul Asylum is where Vincent Van Gogh stayed for a year from May 1889-May 1890 as a self-admitted patient.   During much of his stay he was confined to the grounds where he made paintings of the garden, olive trees, views from his window and of course the irises.   I took this reference photo when I visited in 2007.

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Maddie 9"x12" oil

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Eleven year old Maddie is the granddaughter of a woman who paints with us on Friday.  She wanted to pose for our Friday group and had to wait until she had a day off from school.    She has been practicing for weeks and I must say she was a very good model!   All her practice paid off.   

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surrounded by sage 6"x8" oil

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Going through my photo archives I came across this dirt road picture from my trip in southern France a few years ago.  Fields of sage, don't you love it!

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Bernheim small batch 6"x6" oil

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I like this painting because of the straight on angle of the bottle and the small shot glass on the one third line.

Bernheim is made at Heaven Hill Distilleries in Bardstown Kentucky is the only type of straight whiskey which uses predominately soft winter wheat and is produced in small batches and aged to perfection.  It is not really a bourbon since it is at least 51% wheat.   To qualify as bourbon, the law stipulates that it must be made in the USA, at least 51% and no more than 79% Indian corn and aged for at least two years.   It is a nice smooth tasting whiskey.

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French countryside 6"x8" oil

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I have been revisiting the photos I took while in Provence, France and I came across this gravel road that was winding its way around a lavender field.   

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Manhattan 6"x6" oil, still life

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Got this painting back from a local gallery.   I love the shape of a martini glass!  Thought I would offer it before I send it off to hang in another gallery.

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Liz with red top 8"x8" oil

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The challenge for me this day was to create an interesting layout keeping it simple and direct.  With her arm outstretched I wanted to include it so it made sense to put her head in the right 1/3.   I had taken a square canvas so I was locked into that shape.

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