White Gourds

I finally got to participate in my favorite painter, Karin Jurick's new blog, different strokes by different folks. Each wednesday she posts a photo for whoever wants to take it and make a piece of art with it. Then you email her your work and she will post it on the blog with a link to your site, which is really nice of her! This is her fourth week and I finally had the chance to do it! I am very excited about it because gourds are something that I would normally paint, but the fact that they are on a gray background is HUGE for me. I always stick to bright colors and this showed me that I should really experiment more with the neutrals. It's amazing how many colors you can pull out of neutral colors when you really look at them!
Make sure to check her blog: www.differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com

spoon on orange

This one is definitely my favorite so far. I love the variation in the background and I'm not even sure how I did it. I just put the color down quick and it pretty much looked like that. Since I liked it so much I tried not to change it much when adding more paint too it. This one is also 6 x 6 inches and when set next to the fork on yellow, creates a great little set.

fork on yellow

Just experimenting with bright colors and how you can mess with them in backgrounds. This one which is 6 x 6 inches pairs well with a similar spoon painting. Overall this series is going to be a lot of different colored backgrounds, so when hung together they will bounce off one another.

Cropped fork on red

This was the first (after Matt & Michelle's silverware) in my silverware series. It's on a teeny piece of wood, only about 1 inch by 6. I'm not sure about the cropping, but I had wanted to try something different. I think it might be a bit harsh on it's own but when mixed with all the other silverware paintings in the show I think it might work.

Matt & Michelle's Silverware

I decided to do a silverware series this fall and before I got a chance to start it I wanted to do a painting for friends of mine that were getting married. Their colors in the kitchen are cobalt and stainless steel so in deciding what I wanted to paint them, I guess I just couldn't get silverware out of my head and it just seemed too perfect to do bright silverware on a cobalt background. So this is my first silverware piece. It is 12" x 12". It was fun to paint them giant. The rest of the silverware I have done since then have been closer to actual size so I'll have to find time to do some more giant ones!

Cupcake Convention

I LOVE to paint Cupcake Cafe's cupcakes! they are so fun! This is a larger painting, roughly 12 x 18 inches. I am really happy with the way it came out! It is hanging in my Bevtown Gallery show right now. The Bevtown Gallery is located at 197 Cabot Street (across from where Bell Market used to be)

Some Fall Landscapes

I really enjoyed doing the small landscapes, so I decided to continue with some fall related ones. I really like the way all of these small landscapes have made me work and I hope they will effect the way I paint a larger one. I will definitely continue to do a few more fall landscapes because the colors are too much fun!

The rest of the mini landscapes

Here are the rest of my mini landscapes series for my show at Bevtown Gallery. I have been so busy getting ready for that and my fair at the Wenham Museum that I haven't been able to put any of them up. Starting from the top: This was found while driving down a road in Wenham on a beautiful puffy cloud day! I loved the reflection that the bright day was creating in the little stream. The next one was a picture I had taken 3 years ago out in Upstate NY. I just think it is so pretty there, especially all the bright red barns that pop out of the beautiful green and yellow landscape. The third one was from a recent trip to Spectacle Island off of Boston Harbor. Another beautiful "puffy cloud day"! The next barn was one I had passed right after a crazy storm while driving through pennsylvania. I like the color of the sky as the eerieness was going away. The last one was from a farm up in Woodstock, VT. Just thought the path was so cool.
Thanks for looking, sorry it's been so long!