Pepper on Orange

8x6 oil on canvas panel

Just working on the pepper and trying out different colored surfaces.  Need to work on something else today.

Benchman

Just painting last weeks subject, which I put in a subway station, as the photo was, with out editing much of it. Going to work on something else in a minute.

Mini Pumpkins

28x36  oil on gessoed mat

This is for this weeks Different strokes from different folks. You have to go to the bottom of Karins blog to see the ref photo I worked from. No there wasn't a cat in her photo, but I saw one.  click on photo to see more detail. It took an hour 45 .

Walled Pepper

8x6 oil on canvas Panel

Got a little glare on this one.

Pepper in cup

click photo 6x6 oil on masonite

Still going with the pepper. It gets these reflective highlights on the shadow side, and i can't seem to put them in with finesse.

Green and blue

8x6 oil on canvas panel

That anahime pepper behind the blue bottle. 

subway

9x12 oil on canvas panel

Tough going on this one. This was the different strokes from different folks weekly painting.  Should have just worked on the man in chair cause he is so small in this painting.  I'll do that next time, to get a better likeness

Dos Peppers

6x6   oil on masonite

Don't know why it looks a little washed out. No telling. That red pepper's values are tough to get close. That's the bottom of a green pepper, folded upon itself.

The Peppers

6x8  oil on canvas panel

An after work piece.  It's fair but a little short.

anahime

6x8 oil on canvas panel

I tried not to over work this pepper. The comp is a little weak  but I was able to stop insted of going further.

More Corn

10x8 oil on masonite

Still keeping at it. Thought this one is a little more proper, but too messy. 

Indian corn

8x10 oil on masonite

Thought that I would give this a go. I guess it looks like corn. I'll need to keep working on different arrangements to use the corn.

Brused pear

6x6 oil on masonite

Put the spot light on the pear which was on black paper, curled up behind the pear so that it's cast  shadow could be seen. Didn't really come out as well as I hoped. Getting that yellow-green skin to show values that round the pear are a problem for me. Think if I use a bigger brush and make more abstractive strokes will do it, next time.

Karins beach

20x16  oil on canvas

Another weekly for the different strokes different folks blog by Karin Jurick

spot lit pepper

6x6 oil on masonite

Made a little spot light for the pepper. Didn't do too bad a job. Kept it to single brush strokes.

Three pears

6x6 oil on masonite

Was trying to smudge the paint to get a progressive value. The edges were very sudden but i didn't pull it off. I tried to do it with single strokes first but,   i'm tired.

September Pear on minican

6x6 oil on masonite

Doesn't seem the values are right. They are a tad darker on the pears dark side, but dark enough . Must be the can.   right!

Tomato on a miniCan

6x6 oil on masonite

I liked this little can.

We had lobster the last night before returning from Maine. Even Higgins and Zippy enjoyed some legs.
Higgins enjoying lobster leg.

Shy Zippy also enjoying some lobster for the first time.

Karin's Late Jack

6x6  oil on masonite

From a photo of Jack, Karin Juricks late beloved one. Also posted to the group blog 

http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com  ( first time to put a link here) I can see i'm 4-5 years away from doing better work. I'll just need to work.  :)

September Pepper

6x6 oil on masonite

A little pepper after work today. I think i have settled down some from my trip.