"October Pear" -Sold

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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This little painting was an exercise in using conservative brush strokes. Trying to paint without overdoing it by dabbling too much, or too much blending on the canvas. Each stroke is supposed to be deliberate and with purpose. Hey, just like that golf book, every stroke/shot must have a purpose. Well, toward the end of this exercise I got a little impatient and put the shadow area in a little crazy like. That would make it expressive like.  : )  Maybe this should be titled "Expressive Pear". I think I will try this again.

October is time for change for the leaves, and me, so I changed the look of my blog page and tried to clean it up a bit. Hope you like it. Also, I am going to try the auction process of selling my paintings again. I gave up on it pretty quickly in the beginning of my "blogging my paintings" career, so I'm going to go back and give it a try again. If you think it's just crazy, let me know, I don't mind, we all need a little crazy in our lives.

-JanettMarie

"Apparently..."

8" x 6" oil on canvas panel

This little gem is from Saturday's time at the easel in the workshop. No cup in this painting, but the blue vase is one that I believe Connie said her son made. It is a beautiful turquoise color and sat completely still while the sunflower just moved it's little face all around the place. Guess it was following the sun!

This is the last of the paintings from this past weekend, guess it's time for me to get back into the studio and get to work!

-jM

"ApplePear"

6"x6" mixed media on paper mounted on panel

Have you seen them at the grocery store? It's an ApplePear! Oh they are good eating too!

This is number 81. It has a little spot of gold leaf on the bottom right of the applepear so it automatically became a mixed media piece, hmmm.... just like that!

Counting down the paintings and trying not to think ahead about what number 100 will look like, I just know it will be big!  : )

-jM
PS: Happy birthday Kathleen!