Roadside 4-15

8x10 oil

Warm Bass Marsh

6x6 oil on hardboard

This is another view of Bass Harbor Marsh. Most folks paint facing the other way and in an  earlier post I did some. Studio painting.

spoon cup apple

6x6  oil on hardboard

I painted over yesterday's craptactular painting. I think this came out well. I could have made the whites more pure and lighter but it came out well for me.

NYSE

20x16 oil on canvas

 This is this weeks challenge on Karin Juricks blog.  This was tough. I wanted to spot light on the guy in black at the floor center. I got too tired after two hours and it took me 3.  I think I should have been more selective, and it wouldn't have look ......  I'll see what other people did and give it a good think.

Tin & orange

6x6 oil on hardboard

This is a matte tin which reflected a different color than those the subjects were sitting on.  The orange was dull because the light wasn't shinning through, but on it.

Imposter

6x6 oil on masonite    click photo

That's the pepper in with the bananas. I put the light close to the subject to bleach out a little bit. I used the #6 bristle for the whole painting and the #2 in a few spots. It looks like it needs stronger values. I didn't want to over do it. I need to work with a little medium to thin the paint and make it flow some what.  Maybe.

Bean challenge

12x16 oil on hardboard

My contribution to the Different strokes challenge. I didn't put in the seams in the metal cause i'd just muck it up more.  This took me about 2.5 hours.

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. 

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.

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.

Sargent drive tree

8X6 Oil on wood

Tree along Sargent drive, looking towards Somesville. Got a little bit of lawn grass on the left edge.

Mom's tomato and vase

8x6 oil on wood

Had to paint this funny shaped tomato and her cool greenish vase. The tomato is about 3 inchs long, a dinky one.

Bass Marsh Mountain view

6x8 oil on wood

Tried a fuller view of the mountains from the marsh.


Lobsters just cooked in baskets at Thurstons.

Lemon and Radishes

6x8 oil on canvas panel

The lemon is the focal and the radishes with the green leaves were supposed to be accents however, I didn't have anything else to use that was smaller. A stuffed olive would have been just right but I eat those too fast. There is a little reflection and I didn't want to over do it.

Blue Tea pot and pepper.

6x8 oil on canvas panel

Couldn't get the uploader to work yesterday. Couldn't give up on the peppers yet.

apples and jar

6x8 oil on canvas

 Jar not looking  jarish. Got lots of jar and lots of paint so I need to get cracken.

Apple and pot

6x8 oil on canvas panel

Really under the weather on this one. That's supposed to be  a flower pot on it's side.

Cable Crossing
9x12 oil on canvas panel

This is down the road for my folks home. If you drive around Mt. Desert Island you'll pass right by here, about a mile from Acadia workshop center.

Limes with Remekin

6x8 oil on canvas panel

I think the shadow side of the remekin still too light.