The Beach and the Flowers

So I decided that just because I'm not taking my art class doesn't mean that I can't use my oil paints (even though technically I don't know how to use them). The Flower Pitcher I just did off the top of my head. Did a quick sketch and started painting with lots of red. There is red in every area of the painting (even the blue).

The Beach is from a picture I took while on the Gulf of Florida. I really should have added more red to this painting to warm it up.

Again, my camara makes the colors look a little different and there's a flash, which is why they are at odd angles.

My Paintings

April 2008

Below is my newest painting "Ripe Banana". While I was painting I got frustrated and painted over the brown with yellow and it actually made the banana look more real. Funny how things like that happen. The picture I posted has the banana I was painting above it to show that I have to paint from what I see.

My two newest paitings are "Custom Made Drink" and "Unfinished Pears". When I was painting the pears I had three pears sitting my my painting table, but I need to take them for lunch. So the painting really is unfinished because I had to eat my "subject".

The First painting. (Spring 2007)