Wine and Pears................Oil Paintings

12x24......Afternoon Snack

10x20......One Tired Pear

12x12......Cheers to You

12x24.....Pear "Shelfie"

8x24....."Group Shelfie"

Wine and pears go well together.  But they need cheese.  I guess I should start painting cheese. 

Romantic Dinner for Two....

I saw this photo and got drawn in immediately.  I want to be there.  I can feel the warm air, smell the plants, taste the wine.  I REALLY want to be there.

Wine Art...Oil Paintings...

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Recently I was featured artist at the Cork Wine Festival in Shreveport, LA.  I was invited to come and display my artwork during the amazing wine tasting event that they sponsor every spring.  Believe me this is a first class event and I was proud and happy to be included.  I painted a lot of wine art for the event.  Above are some of the wine themed creations.

Birth of an Oil Painting....WIP 3

Here is the next installment in the process painting series of my Missouri commission.  I emailed the owner of this painting and told him that sometimes I stand in my studio and hold some palette knives and God paints a painting. 

That what is happening here. It seems to be flying onto the canvas.

 When you first approach a blank drawing on a canvas, you need to block in colors in the correct values with the idea of getting the entire canvas covered before you start making drastic changes.  Everything is relative to what is next to it and you can't really judge till you have all the black covered up.  If you are lucky, though, some of those rough little patches that you just spontaneously blocked in will stand the test of time and become permanent parts of your painting. 

A successful painting to me is one that I have the fewest places that I have to come back and re-work what I did on the block-in.  I can already see some little permanent parts starting to show up at this stage...Like that lid on the olive oil!  Can't you just reach right up there and unscrew it?

Here I just about covered up the black...just the salt & pepper lids and parts of the sides remain uncovered.  The glass doesn't have a top rim yet, but already I am LOVING it!  (My daughter viewed this after I had stopped for the day and called it to my attention that the glass that I was loving so much did not have a base on it!  Lol... sure enough it was levitating.)

I will fix that and add all those little cool things that make a painting come to life tomorrow when I will show you the last photo of the finished product!

Fine Line......Oil Painting

Fine Line.....24x24.....oil.......$600

This is one of the paintings I did for my show. I do love to paint wine bottles. The subtle variations of the green from one bottle to the other, the reflections. I get so caught up in paintings the little "pieces" of color that, sometimes, I have to walk away and let my brain "reset" before I can come back and see it as a cohesive painting.

Sometimes I really stuggle and think that things are not going well because a bottle doesn't look round or see-through or something...and then the next morning when I come in and look...BAM! It was there all along and I just was too focussed on the trees to see the forest as a whole.