LEMON SKETCH

6" x 6" acrylic on gessoboard

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This was a quick sketch  though it started out to be more detailed. I worked on it quite a while but was getting nowhere so I started to wipe it off in frustration and then.... the pleasure of moving around the paint grabbed me. While I was playing with it.... poof! a nice lemon sketch appeared.
looks good in this colored frame below.

LONG LIFE

6" x 6" acrylic on gessoboard

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This old paint brush had some cool colors on it from a long working life. I thought it worked well with the background....so since I am always looking for subject matter for the next daily painting.....TA-DAH!! Looks petty good in a frame too.

 

ATTITUDE

6"x 8" acrylic on gessoboardSOLD

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Some people hate crows but I like 'em. They're smart and comical. I was reluctant to do one because they are black and I don't even use black. In fact I don't even have any. I  mix blues and reds to get the shadows. black is so dead.....not really a color. But there are lots of reflective colors on a crow. Really we are painting light reflecting off of the crow so... there it is. Below is how it looks in a frame.(black of course)

DREAM FOR SALE

6" x 8" acrylic on gessoboard

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My wife and I walked the docks at the marina in Ilwaco Washington on a bright ,blue day. Good light and color. I saw quite few 'for sale' signs like the one in the window of this nice, old fishing boat.  Some of these old working boats had been turned into pleasure craft. Made me want to sail away.

AT THE MARINA

   

8" x 10" acrylic on gessoboard.........$100 SOLD
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I used a photo taken by Jim Furnish that inspired me for this one. I took a little artistic license, as always....Below is how it looks in a frame. I'm thinking of offering my daily paintings framed or unframed...not sure I want to go into the framing business ....it's so much like work....so it's just a thought right now.

MEADOWLARK SINGS

6"x 6" acrylic on Gessoboard............$100

If you've never heard a Meadowlark sing  ...you've missed something wonderful. They have a beautiful long song something like water being poured from a bucket. They sit high on top of a tree or post and belt it out.

SUMMER POND

6" x 6" acrylic on gessoboard...................$100

Our Koi ponds are full of life right now. Lily pads and water lilies along with water Iris and lots of fish.

This is how it looks in a frame.

GULL HEAD

6"x 6"acrylic on gessoboard.........................  $100

I decided to do this with more of a palette knife approach. Heavy texture.

Kinglet

6"x 6" acrylic on gessoboard...................$100 SOLD

WREN

6"x 6"acrylic on gessoboard....................$100

These little guys have the distinction of being able to stick that long tail straight up. We have lots of them hanging out in the dune grass.

BIRD ON A WIRE

6"x6" acrylic on gessoboard.............$100SOLD

While I was enjoying the summer sun in our yard a couple days ago ...a Goldfinch stopped and sang its little song. Next best thing to having a canary in a cage. Just after I finished this painting I realized there is a technical flaw in the wire. Sort of like an M.C.Escher rendering...it looks right at first glance but on closer inspection you see it is a physical impossibility.

STRAWBERRY DELIGHT

6"x8" acrylic on gessoboard.........$100

Not sure who eats strawberries with a fork.. sorta like eating a candybar with a knife and fork. But hey! it makes for a nice set up anyway.

MECHANIC'S STILL LIFE

6"x6" acrylic on masonite panel..........$100

Not sure they even make these oil cans anymore. I thought it had a certain beauty to it once I wiped off the years of grime.  But then I like to monkey around with tools and fix-it projects. And I like the way light moves through the yellow plastic handel on the old screwdriver.