Chocolate Layer Cake

Chocolate!!!

Oil, 6" x 6", $75

Yummy, yummy, yummy!! You can bet I finished all of this when I was finished painting! This is a challenge from Calypso Moon Artist Movement. You could paint any food but it had to be bad for you and delicious. This won out for me. What can be better than two kinds of chocolate, dark and milk?

Hangin' Out

Hangin' Out

12" x 12". Oil, $100

I did this in a class I'm taking at Plaza Art. It's just a 2 hour session that runs for 8 weeks. So I complete the paintings fairly fast. I'm working on painting looser, not getting bogged down and overworking. Painting fast forces me to make every stroke count. I think about where I want the lights and darks. The teacher sets up the still life which is good. Sometimes I agonize over what to set up and then I don't paint. I keep telling myself- It's not what you paint but that you PAINT. Practice, practice, practice.

Red Roof

Red Roof

Oil, 6" x 6", $50

Felt like painting a landscape today. I did an 8 x 10 of this in my plein aire class last summer. The weather has been soooo wonderful. The lilacs are in bloom and the azaleas will be out very soon too.

Whats That?

Whats That?

Oil, 8" x 10", $150

Took the photo for this on a beautiful March day near a college campus in Boston . There was so much activity he kept turning his head every which way. Went to see cherry blossoms yesterday down by the tidal basin in DC. Sooo crowded! lots of dogs too. So excited to have more pics then realized my camera was not working. Ugh! I only love technology when it's working! Same goes for machines. Our riding lawn mower is not working either and our grass keeps growing.

Come Along

Come Along

Oil, 10" x 10", $150

I've been taking snapshots of random dogs when I go out. This little dachsund was walking on the mall in DC. Isn't he too cute? I had to paint him. The shadows were very interesting. I like the warm and cool aspect too.