Pepper and Leaves

4x4" acrylic on watercolour paper. ON SALE, $15! Available here

Here's a pepper study, with a patterned fabric in the background. I do love this fabric, and really ought to use it more! It's tough, but very rewarding to capture. Peppers are always a good challenge too; they're quite bumpy and strangely shaped, which can throw up some funny shading and really do my head in. But they taste great, so that makes them worth painting, doesn't it!

Daisies

4x4" acrylic on canvas board. $25. Available here

Another for the DPW Weekly Challenge. Hundreds of these little daisies grow on the verges all the way up our street, and I've always thought they were pretty. Today on the way home from the shops I picked a handful to paint. I arranged the shoter ones in this little dark green glass that I picked up in a charity shop last year- finally, a chance to use it again! My favourite part is the soft blue-purple of the shadows under my slightly yellow lighting.

Piled High

4x4" acrylic on canvas board. $25. Available here

A little baby painting today! I bought this little tapas dish in a homewares shop a couple days ago, I love the reddish-brown colour. It looks great when piled high with colourful fruit and veg- in this case, orange wedges, grapes and mange tout.

Red Apple Study

4x4" acrylic on canvas board. $25. Available here

I dropped my work off at the gallery today, so although it's not that late yet (for me, anyway) I'm a little sleepy. Train journeys always have that effect on me. So here's a painting from last week, an apple in a china dish- the same subject as one of my first ever daily paintings, though this apple has a wedge taken out of it. It's been a while since I used acrylic and it took me a while to get the colours mixing the way I wanted, but I'm happy with the result.

Blue Mountains

4x4 inches, oil on canvas board. $25

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Here's a little landscape composition where I was practicing atmospheric perspective. I really like the brushstrokes in the foreground, capturing the different shades of brown in the grass. ​

Sprouts and Knife

4x4 inches, acrylic on canvas board. $25

Here's another painting of sprouts! I really loved painting these little guys. Here they surround a knife, looking at their reflections in the blade.

Sprouts on Brown Paper + New Website!

4x4 inches,  acrylic on canvas board  
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I found some sprouts in the kitchen the other day and had fun painting them- it's interesting trying to capture the way their leaves unfurl.

In other news, my new website is live! You can check it out here!

All Cut Up

4x4 inches, acrylic on canvas board. SOLD

When I first started painting with oils and acrylics, I was terrified of two colours in particular- orange and yellow. So easy to muddy them- only a touch of blue, and they turn grey. I'm getting better at working with them now, though. The fear is fading. Here's a little painting of lemon and clementine slices to celebrate.

Clementines: Blue Vase

4x4 inches, acrylic on canvas board. SOLD

Another installment in my ongoing clementine series. In this one I've used a small blue vase I found at a charity store while looking for interesting painting subjects. I like the way the wedges reflect in it.

Clementines: Quarters

4x4 inches, acrylic on canvas board.  $25  Available at Daily Paintworks

The hardest bit of this painting by far was mixing the right colour for the blade of the knife. I really like the shape of the clementine wedges, I'm happy with how they came out. Cutting up the fruit takes this series in a slightly different direction.

Blue and Green Marbles

4x4 inches, acrylic on canvas board. $25. Place a Bid

Here's a study of marbles with light shining through them. I love the colourful shadows they cast.

I've been working in oils for the most part recently and while I love the way my paintings are coming out, I hate waiting for them to dry so I can scan and post them! I really have to take a photo of my fancy new 'drying shelves' and post it to my Facebook page one of these days- but it's been so rainy I've not even wanted to brave the ten-second run across the patio to the art shed! In the meantime, I'm posting my backlog of acrylics.