Halloween Pumpkin

Here is a pumpkin for your Halloween pleasure.  It obviously hasn't been picked yet, but I wouldn't expect that to last.  This on looks good enough to carve up and put on the front porch.



Also, it comes with a video.  See link below.

Delicious Nutritious Tomatoes

In a quick painting session over the weekend, I managed to bang out a few tomatoes.  These ones look so good you could pick them off the page and eat them.

I went with a lighter background rather than darker.  As I made up the story of the tomatoes in my mind, these were still on the vine in late summer.  The heat of August is bearing down on these tomatoes.  They are hanging just under a large group of leaves and waiting to be picked.

Mmm they look delicious and ready to pick off the vine and put on your dinner table.

Additionally, I made a video about painting these.  Check it out.

Morning Glories

Ok, so in a past post you all found out that Morning Glories are one of my favorite flowers.  I love the way the just keep going.  Water them, they grown, neglect them, they grow.  Forget about the, they come back the following year.  And each year they have all these wonderful flowers on the.  They are survivors.

I don't know if these flowers turned out exactly as I had planned, but I like morning glories so much I just had to post the.

I was hoping to get a nice dark green around some of the flowers to indicate some leaves or greenery behind the flower.  I don't think I quite got that right, but it does make for a bit of a different look.   I think I need to work a little orange into the picture to really make the flowers pop off the page.

Well, at any rate I had a blast painting them, hope you enjoy them too.

The End of Summer

Painting with my daughter has been an incredible sense of joy for me.  We sat down and painted a garden, and this is one of the things I came up with.  Watermelon from our garden.  Tried to give the melon a little depth, but not sure I really got it.  Regardless, it is so fun to paint with someone who has no fear in what she does.   I am trying to think less and do more with my painting, just like her.  Also trying to worry less about detail and focus more on getting the feeling of the painting across to the viewer.

Well, enjoy, and thanks for viewing.

Tomatoes anyone?

I wanted to accent the green of the leaves and tomatoes with a nice blueish/purpleish color, but I think I got it too dark.  Well, it does really set off the green and make it pop off the page.

This one was really fun to paint.  It was a challenge to try to get all the greens side by side so that you could actually tell where one leaf or tomato stopped and the next started.  Im really happy with this.  I didn't need to line everything in black and you can see all the shapes and make everything out.

Hope you all enjoy this one.

Old Vines (Wisteria)

These are some old vines that are growing on a trellis on the College of Business lawn.  Looking at the painting now, I think I needed to add a little more shadow to the rear post, and though I didn't notice it while i was painting, I think I left out at least one post on the far side of the trellis.

There are two large sets of vines growing up, one on each side of the trellis, then going back across the top.  The closer vine is totally grown around an old timber.

A good effort for a 30 min draw/paintsession.  Hope you all enjoy.