Blue bottle and egg WIP

It has been a while since I have posted last. We have been having so many cloudy days it has been hard to get anything done. I use my living room as it faces north. I really need some lights but with all this change in light bulbs what is everyone using now?
I have also been reading a lot of other blogs and like how they show their set ups and progress so I have been trying to do that. I have several duds that I can not seem to fix so I have them out of sight and maybe I can go back and fix them or they may just be a lost cause.
Here is a 4x6 of a blue bottle and egg. I usually dray in a thin wash and then start building up paint. I will let this dry for now and then come back.

Precious 8x10 oil

This is my sister in laws cat Precious. She is a lilac Siamese with beautiful blue eyes.

Rosebud 4x6 oil

I have one lone stick of a rose bush and this is one of the flowers from it. I need to find a new place to plant it as where I have it is not the best place.

Pisces... Holly Cessna 1989-2012

I did this piece for Will's niece Holly for Christmas it is another cheese box.
She passed peacefully away at home on Jan 6. She was a cancer survivor.
Words can not express the loss of a child at any age. My prayers go out to her parents and close friends.
I read a book a long time ago that brings me comfort at times like this and this is one of the quotes in it.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't. (Illusions by Richard Bach)
Holly's mission was completed and went gently home. She will live on in the hearts of those who loved her.

Nemo

I can't tell you how much fun this one was painting. My great niece(is that the correct term my niece's daughter is 2 1/2) Rebecca knew who Nemo was and she was so cute when she recognized him.

Again this was a cheese box 14 inches and done in acrylic. She is a cancer so I added the little crab and I like seahorses. I just love the bright colors.

Princess and the Frog 14 inches round

My husband has a co worker that gave him some cheese boxes and I did paint on some a few years ago for a guy that was a wild life theme of a turkey and duck.
To thank him for the boxes I painted one for his little girl of the princess and the frog.

Orange Study 5x7 oil

Love this color, I understand the hot color for 2012 is Tangerine Tango Orange so this little painting would fit right in.

Blue Iris 8x8 oil

This is a 8x8 that was shown at the Crystal Springs Show. Members were asked to paint one to show. It seemed that most had flowers on our mind
Again the painting looks better in person. This scanner does not do a good job so will be going back to the old one.

Tea Pot

oil 14 x 11
This is one I did back in the summer. I am not happy with the grapes they look like little cannon balls. Will have to work on some and see if I can do better. This one is also at the Crystal Springs show.

Crystal Springs Art Show

This is some pictures from the Crystal Springs Art show Nov. 12. We had some really nice work by the members. They will be up for 3 months at the Tomato Museum come by and take a look.
The pumpkin and patty pans look more like the should here in this picture.

Holly's Patty Pans

oil 10 x 8
This past summer our little town had a street fair and people had set up booths and Jason and Holly had several veggies they had grown for sale. These patty pans were so pretty and looked like a little flying saucer. This is a terrible picture I used a new scanner and I am not pleased on how this turned out.

Fall Pumpkin

oil 10 x 8
The little pumpkins in the store are just so cute. I put this one on the front porch in the sun.
I think now looking at it the pumpkin and edge of screen are to close. Funny when you are painting something you do not see this till you look at it at a later date.

Barnyard Cats

oil 18 x 24
This is a large one for me. I need to challenge myselt to work larger. This got an honorable mention ribbon at the VAA show.
Its my babies Wolfie and his brother Trouble.

Maw Maw's Fig Bowl

oil 5x7 sold
My Grandmother always had figs in this bowl. I now have it and we have a fig tree and I think of her every summer when we pick our figs.
This one did not get a ribbon but it did get purchased which is as good as a ribbon.

VAA show this past Sat.

The big fall Vicksburg Art Show was held this past Saturday and it was a nice one. I missed last years as I was in B'han and Dad passed away. I was in a slump after I got back and it was really this past summer that I started getting back in the grove by painting with Ms A and the summer group.
My Green tomatoes "Best Friends" got 2nd place in oils out of 26 entered. I was so pleased because it has been a while since I got a placed ribbon. That gives me a little boost to the old muse and spurs me on. Will show the other two this week but for now I have two I have to finish for the Crystal Spring show this Nov.

Green Tomatoes

oil 11 x 14
This was a fun painting and I loved the green tomatoes we did fry them after I painted them.
They were in the Crystal Spring show and got an honorable mention. I have also placed them in the Vicksburg show this month

Figurine and plums

16x20 oil
This is one I did this past summer. I need to work on my glass. I kinda like my drapery and the figurine ok.

Heirloom Tomato

oil 8x10
This is of an heirloom tomato we picked up from the farmers market in Jackson. It was a small tomato but tasty and we even saved some seeds to plant next year. We liked the way it has so many bumps on it. We do not know the name and the person selling could not remember it so we named it after her. The Happy High Healed Hippie.

Bird Nest

5x7 oil

This is a small oil with a pallet knife. The bird nest was a lot easier to portray using the pallet knife.

Sea Oats

4x6 sold

Last Sat. Will and I went to Crystal Springs with the art association to display a few of my things in their town square flea market like happening. At least it was not to terribly hot. I just wish there was more people there. They maybe had 13 to 15 vendors there and at these things I always spend more than I sell. LOL.

All in all I did sell a few of my practice pieces and the ones I did back for the dfds site that Karin Jurick had some time ago. They were watercolors with out a matt that I brought on a whim and surprise surprise they are what sold. Above is also one I did on hot press paper. Maybe the very low price had something to do with it also.

I do not know if we are going to be there later in Oct. or not If so I will post and come by and see us.