One Red, Three Slices

One Red, Three Slices, 6" x 6" oil on panel
More fruit painting!  Truth is I love painting fruit, and still life has always interested me.  Its a bit like "back to painting basics" working with more formal concerns.

One Yellow, Three Orange

One Yellow, Three Orange, 6" x 6" oil on canvas
This is one of my still life studies from my recent "A Painting a Day" class in Sedona.  Looks simple but i discovered a lot about value.  Not to mention enjoying the beauty of the high desert

Coral at Play

I just returned home from a 5 day workshop in Sedona AZ. It was called "A Painting A Day",. quite fabulous it was, i am excited to get my studio painted and organized and ready to paint!

"Yellow grasses"

"Yellow Grasses" 4" x 4" 2009 Acrylic

"Beach"

"Beach" 8" x 8" 2009 oil

This painting i used some of the underlying acrylic painting ..which i think really adds to the overall..(love underpainting) quickly done and rougher than my acrylic painting but i think more drama and emotion

"Sky and pink"

"Sky and Pink" 4" x 4" 2009
Another oil mini sky

"Cloud study" in oil 6" x 6"

"Cloud study' in oil 6" x 6" 2009

I have just started to work in oil ..just the small paintings, as I am hoping to get out and do some "plein air" painting and it seems oil works best for quick on the spot painting. Instant "juice" as opposed to acrylics where i have to work so hard at it..