Very Large, Very Red Abstract......oil painting

24x36.....Oil Painting

This is a very interesting painting.  I painted it straight from my gut.  I let the paint tell me what to do.  When I was done I stood back and looked.  I don't know if it was because it was around Valentine's day or what, but it looked like a heartbeat on one of those machine readouts.  Interestingly I said this to a medical person that was viewing the painting and he said, "if this was a heart rhythm, this person would be in trouble!"  lol

 

Then I took the painting down to one of the galleries in New Orleans that represents me.  I just took it in and gave them no preconceived notion of what it was.  It is now hanging vertically and is entitled "The River".

That's what I love about abstracts....Everyone is entitled to see what they see.

Tomatoes Fresh from the Vine...oil painting

 

10x20.....oil on canvas...$240

 

One of my grandparents had one of these enamel bowls and it makes me think of older times, fresher food and small gardens.

Poppies.....oil painting......#27 of 30 paintings in 30 days...

 

18x36......oil painting.....$775

 

I have been much more comfortable painting flowers since my workshop with Dreama Tolle Perry this summer.  I will have to say, I am just more comfortable painting....period.  It's like anything else, the more you do it the more comfortable you are. 

 

Every now and then I go back to paint a subject that I have painted in the past when I was first learning how to use oil paints.  This happened recently with  a bell pepper.  I remember the first time I painted one....all the little dips and shadows around the top....and getting the stem in there and looking like it stuck out.  It seemed like a foreign language and I was just muttering a few phrases here and there.

 

But just recently I had a commission to do three small paintings of a red, green and gold bell pepper.  It was so much easier this time and I realized that I have been getting better over time.  I wouldn't say that I am "fluent" yet, still lots more to learn and more discipline to apply, but I am at least "conversational".  

Garlic.....oil painting.....#25 of 30 paintings in 30 days...

 

12x24....oil on canvas.....$340

 

I have previously been confused about garlic terminology....clove, pod, bulb, hunk?  So I looked it up.  It appears that what you see before you are three bulbs of garlic which separate into numerous cloves.  So now we know. 

Pouting Tomato....Oil Painting.....#17 of 30 Painting in 30 Days...

 

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

 

 

I have fallen into the habit, like fellow painter Carol Marine, of assigning human attributes to the inanimate objects that I paint.  To me this group of tomatoes is like a group of your grandkids....you ask them to line up for a picture and there is one that pouts and turns their back and will have none of it.  Well, I didn't feel like coaxing the big guy that is looking away....I just went for it.  I wonder if he will regret it later.