Daily Painting - Still Life - Roses In A Jar

Roses In A Jar 5 in. x 7 in. Oil On Panel - SOLD

These are very small roses in a Mason Jar. The roses came from a plant in our backyard. My wife picked them when they opened over the weekend, put them in the jar and placed it on the kitchen table. This was probably a set-up by her for me, but I saw them this morning and decided to paint them. I really enjoy painting glass so for me this was a fun painting to work on. I like the pink of the flowers against the grayish background. I hope that you enjoy it.

Daily Painting - Still Life - Tomatoes In A Bowl

Tomatoes In A Bowl 8 in. x 10 in. Oil On Panel - BID ON OR BUY THIS PAINTING.

These are more tomatoes from my son's plants. The idea of putting them in the fiesta-ware bowl was my wife's, and it turned out to be a good idea I think. I wanted this painting to be a reminder of summer, so it needed to have a lot of light and I think that the yellow bowl really helped to brighten everything up even more. I'm really happy with the painting, I hope that you like it too!

Daily Painting - Still Life - Pears On A Limb

Pears On A Limb 8 in. x 10 in. Oil On Panel - BID ON OR BUY THIS PAINTING.

These are more pears from my mother-in -law's tree. I took the limb and the pears home to work on this. I originally planned to use a sky blue background on the painting, but after setting this up in the studio I decided on a grayish-green background, and I'm glad that I did. The painting is part still life and part landscape, and I really liked the effect of a studio type background against these pears. I hope that you like the painting too!

Daily Painting - Still Life - Katie's Pears

Katie's Pears 5 in. x 7 in. Oil On Panel - SOLD

These pears are from one of my mother in-law's pear trees. I took them from the tree yesterday afternoon to paint them. I wanted to get a jump on them because most of them somehow disappear from the tree as they start to ripen. For this painting I was most interested in the lighting and the really neat looking stems and leaves. I hope that you enjoy the painting!

Daily Painting - Still Life - Bottlenecks

Bottlenecks 5 in. x 7 in. Oil On Panel - BID ON OR BUY THIS PAINTING.

These are three bottles that I had in my studio. I painted this for the contrast in the colors and transparency of the bottles. I thought that painting the top half of them added an interesting effect since unless you know what type they are there is a little bit of mystery to the painting. The bottles actually are port wine, sparkling water, and an energy drink. I hope that you enjoy it.

Daily Painting - Still Life - Mango, Plum, And Apricot

Mango, Plum, And Apricot 5 in. x 7 in. Oil On Panel - BID ON OR BUY THIS PAINTING.

This painting is the result of a trip to the grocery store this morning. I'd painted a mango and an apricot only one time before and I thought that the the color of the fruit was fantastic. So I put them against a grayish gold-white background to try to enhance the colors. The composition kind of looks like the mango is lording over the little plum and apricot. I'm happy with the painting, especially the colors. I hope that you like it too!

Daily Painting - Still Life - Three Tomatoes

Three Tomatoes 5 in. x 7 in. Oil On Panel - SOLD

These are three tomatoes that came from our small garden. I wanted to paint these primarily because they are in different stages of ripeness. I suspect that the one on the left will be on the dinner table tonight, however it has been forever immortalized in paint! In the end I'm very happy with the result of the painting. I hope that you enjoy it too.

Daily Painting - Still Life - Ear Of Corn

Ear Of Corn 8 in. x 10 in. Oil On Panel - BID ON OR BUY THIS PAINTING.

This painting is the result of a trip to the farmers market over the weekend. I put this particular ear outside to dry out on Sunday and I'm really glad that I did. I really like the look of it after it lost some of the green on the husk. I wasn't so much after trying to make this a painting of a food item, for me this was more of a portrait of this specific ear of corn. I hope that you enjoy it.

Daily Painting - Still Life - Scallion

Scallion 6 in. x 6 in. Oil On Panel - BID ON OR BUY THIS PAINTING.

We went to the farmers market yesterday and bought a variety of produce, this painting is of one of the scallions that we bought. To be honest most of the scallions that I have seen were golf ball sized, this one is really large. This is a 6 in. x 6 in. painting and the scallion is just slightly over life sized. I thought that his made an interesting composition, just one onion in the sunlight with a simple white-gray background. I hope that you enjoy the painting!

Daily Painting - Landscape - Summer Field And Grove

Summer Field And Grove 5 in. x 7 in. Oil On Panel - BID ON OR BUY THIS PAINTING.

This is a grove of trees on a farm about a quarter of a mile from my house. This part of the field has not been mowed and it has been so hot in Tennessee the last week and a half that the grass in the field has turned yellow-gold. This scene was early this morning when the light was good (and it was marginally cooler outside). What I really liked about the scene was the sunlight in the field behind the trees and those nice early morning shadows. I hope that you enjoy the painting.

Daily Painting - Still Life - Geraniums In A Terracotta Pot

Geraniums In A Terracotta Pot 6 in. x 6 in. Oil On Panel - BID ON OR BUY THIS PAINTING.

When I first saw those red geraniums I really wanted to paint them. I spent a good deal of time trying to set this up with the right background colors that would allow me to exploit as much of the flower and pot color as possible. And I really did not want to paint this one with hard, angular light. I tried to paint in as much natural, atmospheric light as could. In the end I'm very happy with the result, and I hope that you enjoy it too.

Daily Painting - Still Life - Clementines In A Paper Bag

Clementines In A Paper Bag 8 in. x 10 in. Oil On Panel - SOLD

I used a brown paper bag in the painting that I did last Thursday and I wanted to have a go at it one more time. This is another painting where I was interested in contrasts, primarily the bright orange of the Clementines against the monochromatic paper bag, and the smoothness of the oranges against the more analytical creases in the bag. I also intentionally limited myself on the colors that I used. I picked and mixed the colors that I needed to create the oranges and paper bag and then used variations of only those colors for the background and table top. There is cadmium orange in every part of this painting. Really fun painting to create. I hope that you enjoy it.