“Flower Canopy”
12 in x 18 in, oil on wood
A happy yellow painting. The color of the wood table came out really nicely. This is the
same gourd from last week, of course, but in a still life this time.
SPECIFICS: 12x 18 inches, original oil still life painting on wood, unframed. Painted by Northwest artist Jessie Rasche in 2009.
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“Unlikely Kiss”
6 in x 8 in, oil on wood
The flying frog swooped down to kiss the swan gourd. This is the same gourd from last week, of course, but she’s getting more whimsical.
Comments appreciated.
“Balancing Act”
8 in x 6 in, oil on wood
Here she is again, in primary colors. That’s a little red apple on her head (from the box of apples our friend Ananda gave us from her orchard). The gourd is actually sitting on top of a duck-shaped cookie cutter, sitting on it’s side, to keep the gourd more or less upright. I played with the background a bit, so that it has a watery effect but you can see a window behind the apple. Hm!
This is the same gourd from yesterday, of course, but she’s getting more impressionistic today as I am getting more familiar with her.
Comments are welcomed.
“Yellow Swan Gourd II”
8 in x 6 in
I really like this little gourd. I painted it here on a blue cloth, so that it would stand out more. Looks a little like she’s floating. This has similar blues to Walk With Dad painting.
“Yellow Swan Gourd”
7″ x 5″
Available in my Etsy store.
I was feeling silly and painted this yellow and green swan shaped gourd on top of a bright orange polka-dot cloth. You’ll be seeing more of this gourd. Maybe next time she’ll be trying to fly.
On a personal note, yesterday I went back to the opthamologist for a followup, and politely asked for a new doctor that would listen better. The new doctor was great, he listened and looked a lot harder and found that I have pars planitis of the middle eye; ”snowballs” of debris blocking my vision – something that’s permanent and basically untreatable. I will have ‘flare ups’ but will hopefully also have periods where it’s fine too.
I’m actually pretty relieved that it’s just an eye issue – the little bouts of feeling blind while I could see were making me think something much worse was wrong. The doctor called that “after image.”
My vision right now is like looking at a really dirty mirror. So my little flashes of blindness make sense, and I suppose all the glare is because the light is reflecting off the snowballs…
Oh well.
“End of the Jam.” Oil on wood, 6 in x 8 in. In this painting I wanted to convey the sticky quality of the empty jam jar. And in front of the jar is another one of those lovely red unpolished apples – you can see that it’s half-way polished just from my moving it around in the still life, trying to get a nice arrangement.
The jam color is actually similar to the colors I used in this cantelope painting, also painted on wood.
On a side note, the show at c’est la Vie in Edmonds went well. There was a good turnout and I got very positive feedback about my paintings. 15 of my small daily paintings and a couple 16×20 studio landscapes are up for another few weeks, so you still have time to see it if you are in the area and missed the opening (I took my two biggest paintings down so that I can show them next week in Spokane).
“Unpolished Apples.” In this painting I worked to convey the dusty quality of these pretty apples. They are fresh off a friend’s tree, and bright patches show through where hands have touched them. Oil on wood, 6 in x 8 in.
This painting has a similar technique / paint quality to a previous oil painting of flowers and apples.
My photo is not very good, I’m afraid. I’ll upload a new photo in a few days.
Plumbs, 6×12″, oil on raw wood. The colors in the photo aren’t quite right; the plumb color is actually quite nice.
Umbrella, 6×6″, oil on wood.
I’m starting to enjoy painting pine trees. Here is another pine tree painting.
“Window II,” 8″ x 6″, oil on board.
Heath brought me a big bouquet a couple days ago, just to be nice! Here they are in a square glass vase, sitting in my window above a red apple.
Info about the paintings in the “A Painting A Day” project:
Each day I paint, but about every other day I finish a painting. Most days I paint still-lifes (fruit, flowers, toys), but some days I paint people or go out for plein air landscape painting, or work on a larger studio painting. I try to capture the light effects, the color harmony, and the feeling and weight or substance of the things I paint, rather than the details. My style has been described as impressionistic, colorful, serene and sometimes whimsical.
I do my best to take good photos, but the color may look a little different in person. These small oil paintings look great framed up and placed in a small space on their own, or on a wall with several other small paintings.
Here’s another painting of flowers and fruit backlit by a window.
“Backlit Bouquet” original oil painting on wood panel, 8 x 6 inches. I painted this one really quickly today, and it came out nice and warm. It shows backlit yellow flowers stretching up to a warm sky. Here is another flower painting.
My painting arrived today and it is even better than I had hoped for! I love the way you mounted it in an offset shadow box frame~~ It sets off the painting perfectly!!
