Category: Oil Paintings

Shows are coming this month, I’m painting with hyper-focus, and there is some crazy talk going around. With the shows coming this month, these little oil paintings are almost ready to be sold. They are finished, signed and drying. When dry, I will scan, varnish and then price them.

Five down, 8 or 9 to go. 5 plus 8 equals 13,  but I might need a couple more. 8 or 9 or 10 to go.

About the pricing stage: I am getting messages from many places which sound like crazy talk to me that my oil paintings are severely underpriced. Not only are they severely underpriced, but if I double or triple the prices, my sales will increase.

Does that sound like crazy talk to you??

Where are these folks with big money who are just hanging out, waiting to pay me more??

Crazy talk.

Thanks for asking. Were you wondering if all I do is fund-raise, read and tile?

I squoze a little painting in. Thirteen little paintings, actually. There are shows in November, craft fairs and bazaars and boutiques, all requiring that I have things to sell.

 

Not finished.

Finished, not signed,

Finished, not signed, and too wet to photograph well. All that shine looks messy!

Even looks messy when I step back.

Added blue to an existing poppy. Looks so good I started 3 more!

Liked the fruits for my friend so much that I began 2 more, incorporating some blue, of course.

I need to learn if adding blue makes paintings more appealing.

When these are finished, signed and dry, I’ll scan them and show them on the blog. There are 13 in progress, in spite of only showing you 7 here.

“Squoze” – did it make you smile like the word “liberry” did last week?

 

A few years ago I began painting autumn leaves. Because I often couldn’t decide which way they looked best, I would turn them around and around as I decided which end to put the hanger on and where to sign.

“Turning Leaves” seemed to be the perfect title for the subject. Sometimes I just amaze myself with my cleverness. I try not to laugh too loudly at my own jokes, but sometimes I have to repeat them because people don’t laugh hard enough. Sometimes they even look a bit baffled.

TURNING LEAVES – GET IT?? HAHAHAHAHA

Excuse me. Got carried away there.

New turning leaves this year:

These match a Turning Leaf from a year ago:

The title “Turning Leaf” doesn’t have the double meaning with these, because the stem gives the direction away.

Now I can’t decide if they are dogwood leaves or persimmon leaves!

 

 

Oops.

Yesterday’s “Fruity” blog post had an UFO – unidentified object.

It was a pear.

You probably knew that. But, I showed you a hint of it in progress and then left the more observant reader wondering why I was ignoring it.

When I special ordered those thick canvases for the commissioned oil paintings of fruit, they came in prepackaged quantities. There was a spare one, so I painted the pear.

An artist never knows when a customer will say, “Sure, I’ll take that one too.” An artist needs to be prepared for such contingencies.

Thus, a stray piece of fruit. . .

It is wet, so you will have to tilt your head to see it correctly.

I bet you figured that out too.

If you would like to own this little fruit painting, contact me with the button “Contact the Artist” under the drop down “About The Artist” tab above. It is 6×6″, oil on wrapped canvas ready to hang without a frame, $55 plus tax.