Two pears and Radiator insulator

Two pears that seemed to belong together. Through thick and thin.


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Thank you all for your kind birthday wishes!

In a completely unrelated note, you must try this new-fangled radiator insulator! Furry, velvet-like to the touch, in colors that match your decor! Simply place one on top of your warm radiator and it will help with expensive heat loss! (Happy customer blurb: "Ours is 3 years old and still works great!")

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Shallots

Saw these at the grocery store and although I don't know how to cook them, I couldn't resist their colors.

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Leaf no.2

As you can see, I just couldn't "face the knife" last night, so it was back to Brushes (Business) As Usual. Tonight I may have the courage, however (well, I think I do feel the courage tonight, but do I have the time, is the question). Thank you all for your lovely comments about the painting-knife experiment!

The colors look much better in real life, especially the red on the inside of the leaf. This was one of the handful of fall leaves that I saved for painting.

$115.00 - Leaf 2 (Ready to Frame)

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A few Unisons

What do you do when you can't decide if you feel like oil painting or pasteling (pastelling?) ? This painting is the answer...it was quite fun to do, just concentrating on color and basic "tube" shape representation. I may do more of these.

$115.00 - Pastels (Ready to Frame)

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Exciting evening

Well, in spite of the excitement (and fear) of a large wildfire burning all day (and still burning as I write this) just a couple of miles north of my Boulder, Colorado neighborhood, nevertheless, artistic-type things got done today: I went to alla prima class and painted a lovely young woman's portrait (to be posted on my next post), and photographed last night's still life: this Satsuma tangerine. Oh, and washed a whooooole lot of brushes...ugh.

$115.00 - Satsuma (Ready to Frame)

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Not a tool user

Needlenose pliers...I think that's what these are. Though I do have opposable thumbs, I'm maybe not fully Homo sapiens, as I am not so good with tools. These were lying around in the studio (The Husband is not at all the Handyman type, either) where most of our (mostly unused) tools end up. We occasionally go in there looking for "some sort of tool" to fix some sort of house problem. The end result of this is usually giving up (on finding such a tool, or being able to fix the problem, or both).

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Mango

I was curious to know whether you could still get an object to look colorful even with a colorful background. I think you can! 

While I was painting this last night, I kept thinking that it had to be the most colorful thing I've ever painted. It felt like painting a parrot. What a sunset is in a mango.

$115.00 - Mango (Ready to Frame)

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Growing garlic

I was very pleased with the way this turned out: very few brush strokes, very fresh, is what I was after. This was only an hour and 15 minutes, and a very limited palette. I love how Sargent painted, with thick, fresh, spontaneous light values and I was trying to emulate that.

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