I didn't know I was doing a rotting fruit series, but the 3rd image indicates that apparently I am... I really need to eat my apples before they get to this stage, but they do make interesting subjects when they look like this.
I've also been doing small studio still life studies in oil:
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| clothespins 8x10" SOLD |
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| Clay Pots 9x12" |
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| Floral Still Life 11x14" |
The dark green background for this 11x14" oil of an enamel coffee pot full of flowers was my windbreaker!
I was unhappy with the way I painted the background for this Chianti bottle. Although it was an accurate representation of the color and shadow as I saw it, I thought it was too warm and too distracting; it drew your eye away from the focal point. I revisited it a few weeks later. I was much happier with it once I made the background cooler, and darker overall. It made the bottle and grapes pop .
On the left is a jar full of dark home-roasted coffee beans, and on the right is one of the last remaining bottles of my late mother's homemade tomato juice. Both are 10x8" oil.
Before the weather got cold, I did a few field studies.
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| Bull Creek 8x10" |
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| Boggy Creek Farm 9x12" |
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| Antique Rose 8x6" |
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| Falls at Bull Creek 12x9" |
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| Rustic Farmhouse 9x12" |
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| Chevrolet at Michaelis Ranch 8x10" |
I seriously hate the way the Blogger interface works. I can never get the image layout to do anything close to what I want it to do.
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