Green in back

8x10 oil on wood

Using a magenta cloth in the back ground and still with the apples.

Red in front of box

8x10 oil on wood

Still working the fruit.

Just fabric

8x10 oil on wood

Just fabric, still playing.

Big Green

8x10 oil on wood

Still not getting it with the folds. I'll keep going till i have apple sauce.

Red out front

8x10 oil on wood

Still at it. I hung fabric off the back of the table that the apples are sitting on. I think that i'm making the contrast too strong to give a natural feel to the folds. I'll keep at it.

red apple on box

8x10 oil on wood

Working on the folds and fruit.

Grapes on box

6x6 oil on hardboard

Just some grapes on a box in front of a cylinder with some fabric folds.

Box jar critus

8x10 oil on wood

Trying those fabric folds.

Solo pepper

6x6 oil on hardboard

Just a little pepper fun.

Citrus

6x6 oil on hardboard

Well after spending half a grand and the whole day at the dentist, I didn't pull off much of a painting. Things that bum us out.

zig zag water way

6x6 oil on hardboard

Sketching around, but think that the water is too dark and the value is too close to the grass.

Just grapes

6x6 oil on hardboard

Yes it's just grapes. They are the black version and not the red ones from the other day.

Box-o-grapes

6x6 oil on hardboard

I think i got lost on this one.

Unloaded

8x10 oil on wood

Unloaded lobster boat over in Bass harbor.

Landscape

6x6 oil on hardboard

I was messing around, and used this board to wipe my brush on. Then i thought that it might make for a test landscape. The panel had some goopy gesso runs on it, that tried to hide in the sky.

Grapes fruit

8x10 oil on wood

Brought out the grapefruit and grapes.

Grapefruit

6x6 oil on hardboard

This is the orangest grapefruit i've seen. But they are ruby red inside and good.

Roma and jug

6x6 oil on hardboard

Little roma tomato next to the jug. The tomato came out of the fridg so it had a little dew on it and had a frosty look to the light side. Some days the paint work, some, not so much.

Foggy San Fran challenge

16x20 oil on masonite

This is the current challenge. There were a ton of wires criss crossing the whole challenge image. I wanted to make the painting seem foggy. I was really lost on how to paint all the geometrics of all the buildings. I would say that Jeremy Mann is the man when it comes to all the buildings. I'll see if I like this enough to submit.

Detail of subject