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.

Snow Storm 2014

Some photos of the last couple days. I am in western NY and last night I had to see people on TV in Chicago and Minneapolis complaining because of the cold--well try that cold with HIGH WINDS! AND SNOW!  These pictures can't demonstrate how bad it is, but they are what I took here at home and my boyfriend took on his way to work last night at midnight, and coming home this morning at 11am. Main streets still not down to the tar. Snow is so frozen to the road that it is very bumpy to drive on, like going thru a bunch of potholes. The TA truck stop was overloaded--they have 105 parking spaces, but because the interstate 90 was closed, there were 300 trucks jammed into the parking lot and spilling out onto the road parked all along both sides for a mile.

 Our 2 cars in front of the apt.

 Two trees on the side of our building.

 The sliding glass door in the back of our building. Screen has so much snow blown stuck to it you can't see out, and the glass has some stuck to it also.

 Semi trucks parked out in the street because the I90 was closed and the TA truck stop was full. Boyfriend was on his way to work there and took this picture.

 Pulling in to the truck stop at midnight.

 Only way to get to the back of the property to the garage was to go over the truck scale. 

 Trucks and snow.

 Trucks stuck at the TA because I90 was closed.

 On Rt 5 at Rt 77, corfu, ny.

 Rt 93 at rt 5, akron, ny

Westgate Ave Akron, NY, my street.

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

Happy Hannukwanzmas!

Did this in Paint today. Covers 3 holidays in one.