"Elephants"

5x7 oil on board
sold

"Sunflowers"

15x30 Oil on canvas
sold

"Off the Tree"
5x7 oil on board

"Strawberries"
5x7 oil on board
sold

"Green Tomatoes"
9x12 oil on canvas

"Two Apples"

9x12 oil on canvas

"Brushes & Books"

24x12 oil on canvas
sold

"Apple & Wine"

9x12 oil on board

sold

"Orange"

8x10 oil on board
sold

"Pink Carnation Demo"

8x10 oil on board

Here's a photo of the still life set-up. I prefer to paint by the natural north light that comes through my window.

I started with a thin wash using turp of burnt sienna and cad yellow med which gives it a warm medium value.
I just put in the rough drawing of where I want to place all the objects.

I focus on values only at this stage. I want to make sure I have 5 values and the tricky part will be keeping these values while adding color.

After I started putting in the color I thought the background was too dark and not cool enough. It is a real hassle when you have to change the color of the background after the painting is almost complete.

Thanks for looking.

Here are the paintings I did while at the Tooele Arts Festival. I really enjoyed just setting up each still life and painting while people watched.

"Wild Side"
5x7 oil on board
sold

"Cool Daisy"
5x7 oil on board
sold

"Flip Flops"
5x7 oil on board
sold

"Hot Daisy"

8x10 oil on board
sold

My artist friend who I met at the festival was wearing these converse, I asked her if she could take them off so I could paint them.

"Pink Converse"

8x10 oil on board
sold