The Baby Avocado - Still Life Oil Painting - 5x7

This was the tiniest avocado I have ever seen, it was so cute I just had to paint it. And I love the background color, teal blue and that particular shade of green is one of my favorite color combinations.

Oil on Ampersand Gessobord, 5x7 inches

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Praha - Original cityscape oil painting - 5x5

Today's painting is from another photo that I took while I was in Prague. If I remember right our hotel is in the bottom right corner, and that was the best hotel ever :)

5x5 inches, oil on Ampersand Gessobord - SOLD

Winter Night - Daily Painting

There's a light buried in a tree on the corner of our street, and for some reason when night falls (and especially when it snows) it looks so beautiful.

6x6, oil on 3/8 inch thick gessobord panel

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Avocado in Purple - Still life oil painting

Hey guess what came today? Art supplies! Finally!
Today's painting is a little different than usual, I don't think I've ever used purple as a background color before, but I kind of enjoyed it. I guess purple and I have a love/hate relationship.

6x6 inches, oil on stretched canvas - SOLD

Tiny Avocado - Still Life Oil Painting

I'm almost out of these little canvases, those supplies better get here soon!

2.5x3.5 inches, oil on stretched canvas - SOLD

Lonely Pear - Still life oil painting

Another pear oil painting for today, I'm not going to lie I'm glad that I found these tiny canvases while the Olympics are on, more time to watch :)

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They Were Off My Path - Daily painting

I used my last cradled gessobord for today's painting. I reordered weeks ago for more but they have yet to come. That means I get to go rummaging through my studio for canvases that I have forgotten about, and everything will get reorganized. Kind of like how I used leftovers of everything to make dinner tonight...it actually tasted really good. So hooray for mid Winter cleaning :)

6x6 inches on cradled gessobord

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I'll Be Your Friend - Still life oil painting

Sometimes when I get frustrated with my paintings I take a break and just paint something fun that I know will turn out how I want it to. For me it's usually these little pear oil paintings, I love the colors I get to use and the shapes of the pears.

6x6 inches, oil on stretched canvas - SOLD

Caught in the rain - Daily painting

I haven't done many paintings like this one, I'm usually not attracted to busy scenes. But this one had an atmosphere that I wanted to try to capture.

6x6 on cradled gessobord

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Working together - daily painting

It's so cold outside right now, and I think it got reflected in today's painting. I should have picked a warmer subject. I'm still cold, time to go put on another sweater.

6x6 inches, oil on stretched canvas

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Carpinteria Bluffs - daily painting

I wasn't able to post a painting yesterday because my husband took me on a romantic getaway for our early Valentines day :) but I'm back today this piece. It turned out a little... umm...I don't even know what to call it... it just wasn't how I thought it would turn out. But it is a painting of one of my favorite places, which I miss very much...especially in the winter.

6x6 inches, oil on cradled gessobord

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Hot Stuff - daily painting

Today I decided to paint these two flirty jalapenos. And this time I remembered to wear gloves and not touch my eyes when I diced them up to make guacamole!

6x6 oil on deep stretched canvas - SOLD

Lemons in a bowl - daily painting

I had so much fun painting this piece. Lemons are probably the most cheerful fruit there is, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of our blue wedding bowls.

oil on 6x6 stretched canvas - SOLD

Dusk - daily painting

This was my first painting on my new cradled gessobord panels. I'm very happy that it turned out ok, those panels are expensive!

I'm also pretty surprised that I managed to get a good shot of it, it's snowing outside but apparently the light is good :)

6x6, oil on cradled masonite

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The love pears - daily painting

Just in time for Valentine's day :)

6x6 oil on deep stretched canvas - Sold

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Eat your vegetables - daily painting

6x6 oil on stretched canvas -Sold

I liked yesterdays peppers so much that I decided to make a matching piece in a complementary color.

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The chili peppers - daily painting

oil on 6x6 stretched canvas - sold

Seven chili peppers on a striped kitchen towel. It's been a long time since I've painted on canvas!

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Pear and stripes - daily painting

This painting just makes me smile, I really like how it turned out.

oil on 6x6 gessobord panel - sold

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Finally!

I've finally gotten around to making paintings to cover up the awkward fireplace vent holes in our living room. It took me a while to think of something that I would be ok with looking at everyday. I decided on this little scene, that I painted on two 16x16 canvases that I had lying around. Here are my 6x6 versions which are on sale here

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November 15, 2009

The walls in our new house are still completely bare. So I was brainstorming about ways I could fill them. The thing is it's hard for me to have my own work up on the walls day after day, it makes me want to change things, or somehow make it better. So whatever I put up there is going to have to be something I really love. Today I completed a very small version of something I might want, I would change a few things, but I think this has potential.

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oil on canvas panel, 4x8