Peppers

Painting smaller works has given me an opportunity to experiment with a variety of techniques and styles. This painting is based on a technique called Flemish Realism taught by my mentor David E.Weaver.  I will be using this technique and experimenting with some new mediums and surfaces. Now more than ever I appreciate what David taught me in the beginning of my oil painting journey.  R.I.P. David.

Peppy shrooms

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Painted this for the Stroke Challenge on Daily Paintworks.  Having a domestic dilemma upon my return from Tennessee was very distracting so decided that this challenge would be great to refocus. This was an exercise to use one stroke for each color and then mix a new color, caught myself a couple of times being a bad girl, lucky you could go over to make corrections.

Persimmon 1

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Other artist have been painting these and my recent grocery store visit prompted me to try this fruit.  The lovely reds and oranges are my favorite colors to paint and this fruit is pretty interesting.  It seems rather confusing to determine when it's ripe.  My problem, a couple of years ago I lost my smell and taste so my husband will have to do the tasting.  It's amazing how foods make your glands react  sour, bitter, and salty is easy for me to without the taste.   Most foods are in my memory and I enjoy eating them, only if I stop and think do I get disappointed.  This fruit is not in my memory so not sure how this will end.

Tomatoes

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Although this painting is square your eyes should be going around and around.

Peppers in a bowl

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Painting the same subject is exciting, the challenge is to execute each composition differently from the previous.   There are similarities yet each can stand alone.

Mini red peppers

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At the grocery store they now have bags of small red, yellow and orange peppers. What a variety of shapes and sizes couldn't pass them up. There will be more paintings of these little sweeties.  They are still around and haven't shriveled yet so they are good keepers too.  Pretty soon they will be in a recipe called pepper steak one of our favorites in my family.