Plate of Persimmons

6" x 6"
Oil on Panel

This one makes me happy and might turn into a series. 

All of these current, smaller paintings will be for sale at a local Christmas Home Tour on Sunday, December 8th. I will be posting the details of this event in the next few days on my blog and Facebook. 

Pomegranate with Blue pot

Oil on Panel
6"x 6"

I have always been fascinated by the inside of a Pomegranate; the seeds look like little gems. In addition to being a beautiful fruit, they are the most powerful anti-oxidant of all fruits. If you have never tried one, they are delicious, but can be time consuming to eat if you don't know how to properly peel it. However, I just came across a YouTube video that shows the correct way to peel and eat a pomegranate. There are too many powerful health benefits to pass on eating them, with their ability to lower cholesterol, blood pressure, and other cardiac risk factors. I'll be eating many more now that I know how to peel them. This one was so much fun paint, I'll be painting them more too.

Donut Day

12"x12"
Oil on Hardboard
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$225.00

Some days are just donut days......

Last week, Kelly MacDonald posted "The Donut Challenge" for DPW's weekly challenge; I couldn't resist gettng in on the fun. Click here to see the selection of donut paintings.

Nutella

12"x12"
Oil on Canvas

Mmmmmm. Now, that's my kind of breakfast.

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Three's A Crowd

12" x 12"
Oil on Panel
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$225.00

Here is my entry for this week's DPW's, "The Raw Meat Challenge".  I think my family and friends will find this amusing since I was a vegetarian for years, and I still don't eat red meat. I was surprised at how much I actually enjoyed painting the vibrant reds of the T-Bone, and had more difficulty painting the eggs. Painting everyday things helps us to see the beauty in the ordinary, or even in the ugly; I was once repulsed by the sight of red meat and now I can appreciate it's beauty. Charles W. Hawthorne said, "We must teach ourselves to see the beauty of the ugly, the beauty of the commonplace. It is so much greater to make much out of little than to make little out of much - better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one." (Hawthorne on Painting, Dover Publications, Inc.)

*This painting won first place in the Johnston County Arts and Food Festival.