Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Autumn Crisp-Fall Show Painting


Autumn Crisp
Oil on Canvas
8 x 10

Sold

A friend gave me a big bag of fresh apples, the smell was incredible and their colouring was so delicate, I had to paint them. They will be in the Alberta Oil Painters 3rd Annual Fall Exhibition being held this Thursday on Oct. 2, 2008 at Johnson Gallery, 7711-85 St. Edmonton, Alberta. We'll have over 80 paintings and about 15 will be mine. The next few days are a flurry of activity as I get ready for the show, one activity being picking eesny teensy flies out of the varnish and fixing those spots. Who knew flies would like varnish so much?

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Love Apples in Black - New Oil Painting



Love Apples in Black
24 x 18
Oil on Canvas


Autumn, it’s a mellow golden time of year with ripening fields and an abundance of garden produce to pick. The vegetables are covered with sheets each night to protect them from early frosts and there is an abundance of tomatoes ripening faster than we can eat them. As always I’m lured to the greens, reds and oranges of tomatoes. I love the sharp, green smell of the vines and hate to wash it off. I do, and paint the tomatoes with the smell and taste of summer in my mind.

Love Apples in Black
combines that wonderful, golden, autumn light with ripening tomatoes in a Korean jug which I've painted before, a heavy, chunky piece of pottery with a glossy rich black glaze. I think this is a Korean medicine jug but I'm not certain. This painting is larger than my usual paintings at 24 x 18. The tomatoes were ripening while I painted them and over a few days some of them turned from green to orange. A fun challenge to capture the original colour.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Sunflower - Oil Painting


Good Morning Sunshine
8 x 10
Sold

Painted with such thick paint that it's positively chewy. I loved painting this and did a companion for it. Good Morning Sunshine will be part of the fall exhibition that I'm participating in again this year.