New work for Fall 2018...."Seafood Series"...Oil Paintings

These are some fun renditions of the traditional crustacean collection that is popular in this area.  I just hate that oysters don't have eyes....it gives them so much more personality!

Seafood, Creatures from the Sea, or Ditch....oil paintings

12x12 crawfish

6x12 crawfish

12x12 shrimp

12x12 oyster

12x12 crab

12x12 crab

I have found it hard to decide when enough is enough.  I don't want to continue to bring paintings of subjects that I have painted a lot before, I don't want people to think I can't paint anything else.  But invariably if I come to a show without my seafood series I catch it from more than one source.  So I just try to make sure that I have enough new stuff that people don't think I'm a one-trick pony.

New Paintings for Red River Revel (Food)...oil paintings

8x16......Crawfish

12x12....Oyster on Halfshell

12x12....Crayfish Square

12x12.....Tomatoes Everywhere

12x24.....Sliced Tomatoes

8x24.....Gumbo

8x8......Pear Still Life

12x12....A Little Crabby I



This is more work that I am packing to take to the Revel (see previous posts).  You may notice that my title names these paintings in the category of "food".  Someone was looking through my print bins one day and laughed when he came across the crabs and the crawfish (as well as shrimp and oysters) in the bin labeled "food".  All I can say is he "must not be from around here".   In the South, these are most definitely food. 

And now for another facet of the Revel that keeps me coming back.  I think I will call it the "neighborhood" that I am in.  Well-run shows generally try to put your booth in the same area as it was when you came before so that your customers will know where to find you.  I am lucky enough to be neighbors with an great group of folks that look out for each other and enjoy hanging out together.  When you are there for as long as we are it helps to be around nice people! 

Wading...Oil Painting of a Blue Crab(Challenge #1)

 

10x20.....Wading.......$240

 

September is here!  And so begins the Leslie Saeta 30 Paintings in 30 days challenge.  I am looking forward to trying to accomplish the goal of 30 new paintings posted in 30 days!  Wish me luck!

 

This is one of my favorite new paintings.  In person the water on this one looks so real that it seems that if you touched him your hand would get wet.  But who would touch a crab running around loose in his own element? 

 

We just returned and unloaded the car from our trip to New Orleans for the Palmer Park Art Market.  I'm hot, tired and hungry .....feeling a little crabby. Hence the choice for my first of thirty paintings.