Pitcher

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7 x 5, oil on wood
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Oil Pastels

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5 x 7, oil on wood
$90
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If you ever want to have a lot of fun with color without the expense or mess of paint, go out and pick up a set of oil pastels. I think they are possibly the cheapest color medium in the world. They are vivid, and you can blend them like paint. You can manipulate them with mineral spirits too. They can get a little slippery, but if you give your painting about a day, they will dry like paint and you can go after it again. this little painting was really fun to do so I hope you like it.

Hopper on My Mac

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6 x 6, oil on wood
$90.00
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This was one of those "what was I thinking" paintings. You know, about and hour and a half in, you pause and say "what was I thinking". But, Edward Hopper got me into this, and, among other tools, my macs a so much a part of my process, so I had to press on. In the end, a day of painting, is like a day of journal-ling, so this was my today, I can't change it, nor would I.

Sketch

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6 x 6, oil on wood
$90.00
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A quick comment on the painting I posted yesterday called "Tree by Monica". Today, my sister, Mary Carole asked "Why was the painting last night so small? I could hardly make it out." I said, "well, it's the same size as I always make them". To which she replies, "I could hardly make it out, it looked like you had it siting on an electrical outlet". Now I understood her confusion. The outlet was part of the painting. The outlet, the wall, and the small painting by Monica. Just wanted to clear that up for any one else who might have been confused. Oh, in today's effort, the easel and medium jar, are part of the painting, and so on and so forth.

Tree by Monica

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$90.00
6 x 6, oil on wood
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Today's effort is a painting about a true work of art. Monica (the studio rat) is a 12 year old student. I have been working with her for over two years now. One day she presented me with this beautiful little painting of a tree. They say the only thing that matters in art is "does it work". Nothing works for me more than a little creativity and a little honesty. Hope you like.

Pool

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$90.00, 5 x 7, oil on wood

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I love the summer. It could be 110 degrees, and I will not complain. The reality is, I do not like the winter. I could go on about the crickets at night and the smell of grass, but enough already. There are two ways I can always get my daughter to hang out with me, and one of them is not painting. Food or the pool. So we spent the afternoon at the pool yesterday where I was able to get this painting started.

I hate it when painters say they want to capture the essence or spirit of this or that. "Capture", is that really the word you want to use. If someone captured the essence of summer for example, in a painting, I would want to set it free. Free summer. Then I would release in into the wild.

I love the pool, especially the shiny ladders, and the way the sun sparkles. I like the way the sun warms everything, but the the sky, sneaks in and does it's little cooling thing. Hope you like it.