"At the End"

4 1/4"x 5 1/2"
Oil on Mat board
$65

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"A Different View"

4 1/4"x 5 1/2"
Oil on Mat board
$65

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"Totally Spent"

4 1/4"x 5 1/2"
Oil on Mat board
$65

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Apple, In Progress

I was eating an apple during lunch today, and every so often, I would pause in my eating to sketch out what the apple looked like. I so loved the page in my sketchbook, that I had to post it.



Also, my first painting from this page of sketches. Expect to see several more of these.
"Just Beginning"

4 1/4"x 5 1/2"
Oil on Mat board
$65

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"Pausing for a Bite"

4 1/4"x 5 1/2"
Oil on paper
$65

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I love all the colors that are in the skin of a pear. How often do you really study what your food looks like before you start to eat it?

"Into the Dark"

6" x 6"
Oil on Mat board
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This is the last of the pear paintings- at least for this week. I loved the idea of having the reflections in the glass being part of the focus.

"On the Ledge"

6" x 6"
Oil on Mat board
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I got the idea for this piece late Saturday night. While I have been trying to focus more on it recently, I realize how often the background of my pieces tends to be somewhat of an afterthought. On this one, I wanted the pears to still be the central focus, but I wanted their environment to play an important part. This is the window ledge behind where I usually set up my still lifes.

"Solitary"

6" x 6"
Oil on Mat board
$80

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This is obviously a continuation of last night's subject matter. I really focused on the surface texture of the pear as well as the color. I also wanted to pick up some of the colors of the pear in the background.

"Too Colorful to Eat"

6" x 6"
Oil on Foam board
SOLD

I bought these pears over the weekend, but instead of eating them, I spent the whole weekend painting them. I love the colors- the bright green on one side, and the rosy glow on the other. I am constantly amazed at the beauty of creation.

"Delicious"

6" x 6"
Oil on Foam board
SOLD

It really fascinates me how little strokes and dashes of color, when looked at from a distance, become a solid and recognizable object. I love the looseness of the strokes in this one. It seems to have a lot of color variation in it, even though I only used three. I also like the high contrast between the dark shadows and the bright highlights on the top of the apples.

"Crowd"

6" x 6"
Oil on Masonite
$80

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I don't have much to say about this one. I wanted to do another piece with fruit, but I wanted it to have a greater variety of colors than the previous ones. This one was also done earlier in the day than the others, so the light is much more bright and sunny.

"Pair"

6" x 6"
Oil on Masonite
SOLD


My painting professor in college used to tell us to just "shut up and paint" if he thought we were thinking to much about our pieces rather than actually working on them. I think with these daily paintings, this is exactly what I am doing- painting first and thinking about it later. I guess my typical view has been that I should paint something because it is beautiful or meaningful. However, recently I believe that something can have beauty and meaning because it has been painted. Doing a painting a day forces me to paint something first and then figure out why. This also lets me paint more freely and not worry if it is "good enough" or "meaningful enough." The result is that these pieces, no matter how simple the subject, reveal more about who I truly am.

"Reflected"

6" x 6"
Oil on Masonite
$80

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Good Morning friends! Sorry I didn't post this last night, but I fell asleep and didn't remember until this morning that I hadn't done it. Good thing it is Friday! I had thought about calling this one something like Alone, or Fallen, but the bright colors and the shape created by the reflection seemed to contradict those darker titles. I will post another piece tonight.

"Trio"

6" x 6"
Oil on Masonite
$80

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I really enjoy painting these pieces of fruit. They have allowed me to loosen up a bit in my technique, and focus more on the color and brushstrokes than on faithfully rendering the form of the object.

"Forbidden Fruit"

6" x 6"
Oil on Masonite
SOLD


I realized the other day how infrequently I pray for God to show me the subject of my next daily painting. I often pray for the process of creating the piece, and thank Him for the ability to paint, but I rarely ask for a subject to paint. Sunday night, though, I prayed specifically that God would show me what I should paint the next day. About mid-morning on Monday, one of my co-workers came into my office and said I needed to take a picture of another co-worker's large, and beautiful pear. And, there was my answer. It is not an amazing or deeply meaningful piece of art- simply a pear sitting on a desk- but I had such joy in creating it, and such freedom from searching around for something I deemed "worthy" to paint. It just goes to show that I need to have faith that God will provide for the small decisions, as well as the large.