Sand Crabs......Oil paintings

 12x24................Curious Crawler

12x24............Colorful Crustation

These are a couple of my new creations for the Red River Revel.  I can't believe I leave in 9 days!  Lots to do before then.  The top painting is from a photo that my daughter-in-law took on vacation this year.  This little guy kept creeping closer and closer.  Then he stopped to pose.  The one on the bottom is his colorful cousin.  (Pretty much made up the colors on him, so don't go looking for this species anywhere)

Crabby Guy....oil painting.....#29 of 30 paintings in 30 days...

 

8x24.....oil on canvas.....$230

 

In deciding what I wanted to post on this second to last day of the 30 in 30 challenge, I was looking through the remainder of my new fall paintings.  I came across this one and I said "Oh, I need to show this crabby guy!"  So he is now the Crabby Guy...He has cousins known as  the Crabby Couple.  I may make a whole Crabby Family one day, who knows?

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.