Rice and Beans Still Life Painting

Another still life done at my kitchen table. I like doing this "pairs from the pantry" art!

Acrylic paint on a stretched canvas, 12" square. Textured with gesso then painted from life.

Shabby Chic Kitchen Table and Chairs

This is my first up-cycled project. Furniture from thrift stores and Annie Sloan Chalk Paints-Old White and Coco. Complete replacement of chair cushions. French/beachy feel. All distressed except for the table top, which has polyacrylic on it for protection. Took 2 months for me to do, not sure on the hours, but each chair maybe took about 8 hrs and the table took maybe 20 hrs. Just guessing since I just did it leisurely. :D

Chairs Before:

Chairs During:

Chairs After:

Table Before:

Table During:

Table After:

FINAL:

Peppermint Pattie Painting

Fourth in my candy paintings. One of my favorite candies--cool, dark, and low calories and fat too! One square foot, acrylic paint...exhibiting in my living room.

IDK why, but this site is automatically turning up the contrast on this photo, so it's not accurate. Very frustrating because it is making the background look like a mess when it's really smoother and darker in real life...

Tootsie Roll

Another candy painting. I'm learning how much I love the painting part and not the drawing part of art. I am doubtful of my representing the light and shadows accurately. But I just bought a book on Amazon that should help (Color and Light by John Gurney). Until then, this will have to do. But I do like it. I plan to do at least one more candy and hang them all together. So far there's a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, a Snickers, and this Tootsie Roll. Next I will do either a Peppermint Patty or a KitKat.

Some of the steps in making this painting:

Valentine's card designs

A couple photos made into cards designs with Picasa 3 software. Used focal BW, increased shadows, cropped to 5x7 ratio, applied orton effect and/or hdr effect,  and saturated the color...not in that order.

Snickers

Snickers Fun Size Candy Bar painted on a 12" square strecthed canvas with acrylic paint. This was pretty easy. No problems at all. Except for my lack of motivation and confidence. Once I ignore that, it's really easy. I love doing these candy and food still lifes. Trying to make a lot of them and maybe sell them later this year. Meanwhile it's fun.

FINAL

Donuts 2

I always wanted to do a "painting a day." Well I finally sped it up and did this one in 2 days! It is one square foot, acrylic on stretched canvas. I took me approximately 4 or 5 hours. Getting better at my painter's block. I'm counting calories now and this painting makes my mouth water. It is based on a  photo I took months ago of donuts inside the box. Coconut, a plain, a jelly, and my favorite--a chocolate covered white cream-filled.

It matches one I did a few months ago, as seen below.

"Enjoy" and "Thank You" Chinese Food Paintings

Last month I wasn't happy with my one Chinese food painting so i redid it and 2 others. This time the two others came out and I'm happy with them. I almost forgot to paint the rice. So...Enjoy! and Thank You!

Acrylic paint on 12" square stretched canvases.

Chinese For One

New painting, not very happy with it. I may change the whole background....don't like the yellow/warm coloring I used on the container. When it was grey it looked better. So then I took a low quality photo of it and experimented with photo effects on it and came up with some better images, lol.

ORIGINAL

SEPIA

COMIC BOOK AND RED TINT EFFECTS

LOMOISH EFFECT

ORTONISH EFFECT

Stages of painting the fortune cookie