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This painting was done in oil and I had to wait 6 months before I could varnish it, so it did not get posted in the fall of 2016.  The rocks were painted quite heavily and I was afraid that the oil would crack if I varnished too early.  Many artists believe that you can varnish after one month, and I have done this, too, but only if the paint film is not heavy.

This was done using a photograph of the ocean.  Then I found a photograph of a child and painted a different outfit on her, thus combining two different images.  I often combine different photographs to come up with a painting.

Pears are a favorite subject of mine to paint.  I’ve done lots of them.It is generally better to paint 3, 5, or 7 pears and not an even number.  Some think that two objects can be boring, but three is exciting!  In this painting I tried to remember a technique I learned from watching Julie Ford Oliver’s web site and blog.    She calls it fracturing (avoiding too many sharp edges) and she achieves wonderful results with this.

Somewhere I remember admiring roses in a blue bowl, so I decided to try to paint a blue bowl with roses in it.  My model was actually a white bowl, but after I carefully shaded it and painted it in white, I used glaze and glazed over it with blue.  The shadows can easily be seen through the glaze.  It is an old master technique that I learned a long time ago–paint everything in brown tones with careful shading and then glaze over with color.