Make Lemonade

Make Lemonade
Oil  8" x 10"
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$295.00 + $10. s/h

I love Costco.  I really do.  But, sometimes we end up with way too many fruits and vegetables.  We try to eat them all and consequently feel pretty healthy.  But, sometimes it's hard to eat all of them.  It's only just the two of us.  So, when you have too many lemons, you usually make lemonade.  Or, in my case, you paint lemons!

I painted lemons for several days.  for this piece I used cool, purple (the complement of yellow) for the  shadows.  In a plein air painting you usually have warm light/cool shadows.  With a still life, it depends on what light bulbs you use when setting up your still life.  Or what kind of natural light you have coming in from your windows.

French Table Cloth

French Table Cloth
Oil  12" x 12"
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Now that the weather is warm, I want to head outside to paint.  Tomorrow starts the "season" of my plein air group, Garden Artists.  We paint every Tuesday and Thursday morning in different parks, gardens, museums, over looks in the Pikes Peak region.  If you live nearby and want to paint with us, just let me know.  Any one is welcome.  Additionally, I'm going to be the Colorado Springs coordinator for local PAAC (Plein Air Artists of Colorado) paint outs.  Those are every Thursday morning.  Again, all are welcome!

So, as I get my back pack ready for tomorrow's paint out I thought I'd post a studio still life from earlier this year.   The table cloth is French, the plate is Mexican, the tea pot is probably made in China.

Lemonade

Lemonade
Oil on 2 6" x 6" panels
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This is my submission for this weeks Daily Paintworks challenge.  The object was to take an object and paint it 8 times, but only spend 10 minutes on each painting.  I've been thinking about doing another tea party painting with a lemon on a plate.  So, it seemed like a good practice.  I was planning on putting the lemon wedge on a little white plate, but, I may rethink that as I think it looks better on a dark background.  Maybe that's two paintings in the planning!