Here we go again...

"February Flower"  15"x11" oil on paper

I had so much fun last month painting almost, just about, everyday, that I thought I'd go again. Let's see how long this lasts. I have some paintings I've promised, my goal is to finish those this month too.

Guess making a list would be a good idea for me, well at least it usually works for me. I'll keep you updated.

In the meantime....  here is a collage of the thirty paintings I did in January, in no particular order.

15 rose paintings in here, thanks Judy and Della Rose.

Have a safe super bowl weekend!

-JanettMarie

Orange you glad I didn't say Banana...

"Orange One"   8"x6" oil on canvas panel

This must be painting number 23, I may have to go back and count to make sure, maybe.

Painted this one using an even bigger brush yet, I'm up to a one inch wide brush. Usually this size canvas I use a half inch wide brush. No, I didn't really finish in half the time... or did I?

Hope to check in again tomorrow!

Good night!
-JanettMarie

"Crossing the Line" ---#6

4"x2" oil on canvas

What?! A cherry, who invited the cherry?

I sneaked another martini painting in here. I had this one started but I had no idea tonight when I set out to finish this, that a cherry would end up in the glass. Such fun!

-JanettMarie

"One Please" ---#3 -Sold

4"x2"oil on canvas

One olive please, the others jumped ship! This is my last martini for the moment, though I had the crazy thought of painting 30 of these itty bitty martini's, just because I want to see what it looks like to see all thirty at once. They're so small they're cute!

I did go out and purchase a big 48"x24" canvas to paint a big martini. I thought after I have all the little studies painted, I could choose one (or two, or three) to go big!

I'll keep you updated.

-JanettMarie

"What's for Dinner" ---#2

4"x2" oil on canvas

Number 2 of the Leslie Saeta January 30 challenge!

As I painted along on this one, I kept thinking "How can I make this more interesting, it's so boring?" Then I thought of Myra Anderson and her dots and circles and triangles. I thought of Carol Marine, she puts dots in paintings. You know a lot of artists use dots! Why not! Dots!

I read Leslie's blog post for today and it was very encouraging. She talked about how cool it is to have over 250 artists with the same goal, painting to finish a painting in a day. Yes, that is cool. And also the fact that so many are moving out of their comfort zones to do this! Welcome to the challenge Connie Nobbe! Our main objective is to have fun. Okay, I'm off to have some more fun!

-JanettMarie