You work on comission, right?

So my mother in law is paying me (apparently) to do this painting that I finished last night. It's for my father in law, Chris, who took the photo that it's largely based on. Chris frequently goes to Hawaii to help his parents and he photographed this flower in their yard. The painting is for his birthday in October.

Paintings for the kids

Here are the 2 latest installments of painting for nieces and nephews.
Abbey requested "A butterfly! That's pink! And green!" Which doesn't exist, but I improvised...
Liddy asked for "The Universe!" and wanted it to glow in the dark. The universe is a little expansive (get it? Ha ha. Sigh.), so I went with part of the solar system.

Winter Leaf

That's it. That's the end of the series. I took the photo on a walk with my friend last winter. It's a maple leaf with ice frozen onto parts of it. Some of the brighter spots on the leaf are metallic paint glare--It doesn't necessarily have that much glare face to face.

Knots!

About a month ago I re-learned how to draw knots. Here are the ones I've done at my house (there are a few others that I did during various staff meetings that I'm not going to dig out of my work stuff).

Click on them to see them bigger.

They appear in the order in which I drew them.






This last one is for my friend, Bill, who LOVES dragons.
My favorites are the ferret biting it's own tail and the vine.

Birds!

I've been working with pastels lately. I love it. They're great for things like feathers and fur. These are a couple of birds from national geographic.

Black Eyed Pea-king

This is a black eyed pea peeking out of it's pod. It's from my garden over the summer. When you open one of these pods while it's still green and lush, before it dries, the spot on the pea is deep crimson and purple, and the pod is speckled and technicolor. The painting is 18" x 24". Click on it to see it larger.

A new cartoon! (An Unholy Last Supper)

This is "An Unholy Last Supper." I painted it for the farm down the street on some salvaged wood that they sanded for me. Click on it to see the image larger.
My favorite characters are the turkey and the pig.