"Making Salsa"

This is my most recent painting....more metal....but I can see improvements!!  I love daily painting and all the practice it's giving me!  So I've caught up with posting what I've painted so far for the month of January.  I was anxious to get them up!  Now I'll be posting as I'm painting so it will be more like one painting every day or every couple of days.  Stay tuned!

"A Perfect Pear"

Was compelled at the grocery store to buy this eggplant to paint...and use later for dinner.  No matter where I photographed this one the colors of the eggplant aren't looking "true" - for some reason they're looking more
blue than they are...bummer...more kinks to iron out but I'll get there

"Rachel's Red Shoes"

Another friend at work (Rachel) lent me these funky red shoes to fool around with....it was a great study in the many different colors of red.  I'll probably paint them again before I give them back.

"White still standing"

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Well I know what you must be thinking....however,  I brought these (empty) wine bottles home from work one night for this exact purpose....to have fun painting glass!!  There will surely be lots more of these coming.

"Nifty Thrifty"

Picked up these little items at the Thrift Store...loved the little vintage towel..but was really excited about experimenting again with metal - this time using copper.  I like it.

"Complements"

Had gotten this really neat polka dot fabric and thought I'd do a set up using complementary colors but the outcome was not what I was looking for....oh well.

"Sarah's flower"

One night at work my friend Sarah put this little flower in my ponytail and somehow it ended up in this tiny little olive can...had to paint it...

"SIIMPLY RADISHING"

Never thought I could get so excited after a trip to the grocery store but I was!  These radishes jumped right out at me and were painted within hours of getting them home!

at first it was the tomatoes that inspired me with this one but found I got more excited over the "reflections" of the tomatoes in the salt shaker....I'm enjoying the challenge of painting metal so I'll be trying again soon

my first attempt in a long time to paint metal and, well, I need a lot more practice.  But I realized how much fun it is to paint egg shells!!  They're almost opal-like on the inside!

This one just made me happy to paint - I think red, green, and Christmas?  Or maybe just the bright colors in the middle of a long color-less winter......