Pomello Trio

Acrylic on Cardstock - 4 x 6 inches

Picking up where I left of with the still life. That first one was a 15 minute study. This one was closer to 30. Still trying to stick to one-stroke per color but I did have to go over a few spots that were way off.

Lincoln Impersonator

Marker on Cardstock - 3 x 4 inches  SOLD
For the latest Daily Paintworks Challenge, Raymond Logan is having us honor Lincoln's birthday (a little late) and has made the guidelines quite generous.
He hinted that he was partial to woodcuts. I don't actually have the tools for woodcutting, nor any experience, but I do like doing scratch board type stuff, so that's the approach I took.
With portraiture, if you get the eyes right you're halfway there.
I didn't get the eyes right.

Pomello

Acrylic on Cardstock - 4 x 6 inches Destroyed
I've been trying to follow up on Carol Marine's "one stroke per color" technique. It's so contrary to how I usually work, but I do like a challenge. For more of a Marine approach, I'm not painting from photos, but from actual live fruit from my kitchen. I know, what a concept!

FlaskBerry Big

Acrylic on Canvas Panel - 8 x 10 inches - Bid on this item

I thought I'd give the Daily Paintworks Challenge another go. I knew I could do better on the color of the fruit, and hopefully concentrate on the one-stroke approach. Oddly enough, once I got into it I wound up adding a lot more than simple brush strokes. Guess I was just enjoying painting too much.

FlaskBerry

Acrylic on Cardstock - 4 x 6 inches -   SOLD

For the latest Daily Paintworks Challenge, Carol Marine has suggested trying a piece where you mix the color you want, place it in one brush stroke and then move on. Deceptively difficult, especially for us beginners.
The flask was easy enough for me, but that blasted strawberry! So many little surface details getting in the way of seeing the overall planes and shapes. Squinting helped, but I feel I dulled down the glowing bright colors of the fruit. I'll be trying this again tomorrow.

Lake Pherics

Acrylic on Cardstock - 4 x 6 inches

While looking about the apartment for something to paint, I saw the latest postcard I received from artist Dan Caven, which you can see over at Art League Now. The original is a collage of found objects, but it made for such a great composition, and one that wouldn't have popped in my head, so I chose this as my subject.

Cede

Acrylic on Cardstock - 4 x 6 inches

Certainly abstract, but actually painted from a tiny section of a photo.

Plymouth

Acrylic on Cardstock - 4 x 6 inches

Just another abstract study for a larger work that I probably won't ever get around to doing.

Thompson Study

Acrylic on Cardstock - 4 x 6 inches

I came across a great painting by Darren Thompson in some art magazine, and clipped it out. It wound up near my easel and surprise surprise I wound up copying a detail of it. Oh, it's a poor copy to be sure, but it was fun to do.

Rosa

Acrylic on Cardstock - 4 x 6 inches

Where does the time go? Don't tell me. It would spoil the mystery. It's been over a month since the workshop, I've been swamped and...

In truth I fell into that old trap of just not getting started again, and felt I should really be somehow such a much better painter than before that I just didn't feel up to a masterpiece etc. Finally a voice said, just get back at it. To add to that voice, Carol Marine, and others, have taken up the torch that Karin Jurick dropped last year that we all missed so much.

The Daily Paintworks gang have instituted a new challenge blog, and just in time (though I missed the first two).

Take a look at all the other great entries and try not to laugh at mine too much. I'm just getting my bearings again after a long break.