Purple Pansies in a China Vase Oil Painting

This is my most recent oil painting and possibly my favorite.  It seems like each new painting is my favorite, and I'm glad its that way because it means I'm improving with each one.  Being young in painting its a journey of discovery every time I pick up a brush.  The photo was supplied by Daniel Edmondson's online workshop for his week four class.  I really like the texture of the flower stems, it even comes through in the photograph, though the photographs never seem to do paintings complete justice.  Hope you enjoy it though.

 Oil on 3/4 Panel

8x10

Watermelon, Plums, and a Black Vase Oil Painting

This was the week three painting from the online course I'm doing.  The focus was to work on keeping clean, vibrant colors.  I also had a personal goal to really work on the black vase in the back.  It fades into the background and so I wanted to get it a subtle but definite and finished look, and I feel like I got that relationship pretty well with it.  I love the little red reflective light spot on the right side of the vase.  This is one of my favorite paintings and was one of the most fun so far to paint.  Every new lesson is so exciting because I learn and improve so much with every one.  

  

Oil on Panel

9x12

Pear and Grapes Oil Painting

This oil painting was done a few weeks ago from a photo provided in week two of Daniel Edmondson's online workshop.  I tried to get a tighter look for this painting to see if that was a style I liked.  Turns out I prefer a more loose approach, but I still really enjoyed painting the pear and grapes.  My personal favorite part of the painting is the purple grapes to the right of the pear.  I struggled with them being to purple for a while, and then it hit me that the core of the grapes was actually red.  So I put a little red in the darker areas and like that they were perfect.  Pears are fun to paint because they can be such a range of colors from green to red and brown to yellow.  Its really up to the artist to determine which colors they want in it.  So enough rambling, here's the picture:

 

Oil on Panel

8x10

The Peak

This is a painting I did about six months ago.  It was at the time my favorite and most complete painting I had done.  Its still my favorite landscape painting I've done, though I haven't tried any recently.  In the near future keep an eye out for a new landscape.  I've been wanting to do one for a while, so hopefully I'll have the time to do a plein air (which means painting in the open air) painting of Mount Timpanogos or something like that.

Oils on Canvas Panel

14x18