Lazy Pepper, Day 14, 30 paintings in 30 day challenge

Palette knife painting

15x15cm /6x6inch

oil on box canvas 1cm deep

Edges painted black

Available in my Etsy Store 45€

A second pepper painting from my husband's bag of peppers.

This pepper is a sister painting to yesterday's painting. Yesterday's was standing to attention, this one is laying down on the job.

Last Pepper Standing - day 13, 30 paintings in 30 days challenge

Last Pepper Standing

Palette knife painting

15x15cm /6x6inch

oil on box canvas 1cm deep

Edges painted black

Available in my Etsy Store 45€
See yesterday's painting

I went into the kitchen for today's inspiration. My husband loves roasted pepper and came home with some lovely large red ones from the supermarket, but he wasn't allowed to cook them until after they had performed as my models.

About this painting
I painted this outdoors with the sun shining on the pepper. I place the pepper on a sheet of glass on top of a black serviette to get some reflection and for a better compostion on the square format. I tried to paint quickly so I would loose the high and low lights, but that pesky sun kept moving!

Some close-ups

 

Tango Tangerines Still Life Painting in Oil

Tango Tangerines by Marion Hedger

Still Life painting

Oil on MDF panel

Available  on DailyPaintworks

Another clementine painting, this time with a dark red/brown background. To keep the background translucent I mixed the paint with liquin. This was very effective and I think I will use this again. I also manage to keep the background from getting too heavy which is sometimes a problem for me. Different styles call for different approaches. When using my palette knife I generally like a highly textured thick background but I thought that would be too much for this painting.

Lemon duo still life painting in oil

Lemon Duo

Oil on MDF panel

15x15cm (6"x6")
Available on Daily Paintworks

I have a lemon tree, clementine and orange tree in my garden planted by the previous owner and they must be over 40 years old. This year the fruit on each of them is abundant, so I have plenty of willing citrus subjects to paint. Their shapes aren't perfect, in line with supermarket conformity, making them interesting to paint. Stay tuned for some more citrus still lifes paintings in the next few days.

Related Painting of some of the clementines

There's always one

Clementine still life

6x6" oil on MDF panel

There's always one - Clementine Still life with vase oil painting

There's always one - Clementine Still life with vase

Oil on gessoed MDF panel

15x15 cm (6x6 inch)

Available on Daily Paintworks

Another still life with the clementines from my garden. This little vase is one I made when I took pottery lessons about 20 years ago. I'm sure that anyone who has ever done pottery has something similar - Iron oxide glaze at the top and cobalt blue glaze at the bottom, with the iron oxide glaze running. The excitement was to see how the iron oxide had run down the vase!

About this painting
This painting is painted with a brush. I'm trying to rekindle my brush skills as since using a palette knife it is my tool of choice.

I am not sure about the effect I've achieved. It seems quite static to me and I'm wondering if I should go over every thing with more paint. I'd be interested in your opinion

 See my last clementine painting here

Juicy Duo - Clementine Still Life Painting

Juicy Duo - Clementine Still Life Painting

Oil on box canvas

18x13 x1.6cm (approx 7x5inch)

Day 28 of the 30 day challenge

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 It has been so long since I have painted a painting using a brush, it took me a while to get back into the swing of things.

These clementines were straight off the tree, which is festooned in orange at the moment. They were calling out to be painted.

I placed them onto glass and in front of the window with the sun streaming through. Needless to say the sun moved so quickly I ended up finishing the painting without looking at the set-up, otherwise I would have tried to 'follow the light'. This way, I had the reference of where the light and shadows were and went with that.

Some close-ups

L'ail rose - pink garlic still life palette knife painting, Day 15, 30 day challenge

L'ail rose - pink garlic still life

Palette knife painting
This is painting No.15 in the 30 day challenge

Oil on box canvas

15x20x1.5cm (6"x8") 

For auction on Daily Paintworks

This was painted in response to the Daily Paintworks challenge a couple of weeks ago which was a "Root and Bulb challenge". OK, its a week or two late for the challenge but I have been meaning to paint this since then!

This type of garlic is a speciality of the region, this excert is from "Chocolate and Zuchinni" blog -

"Pink garlic?", you ask, your right eyebrow arched in curiosity. Well yes, it is a unique variety of garlic, grown exclusively in and around the medieval town of Lautrec, in the South of France. It is protected by an IGP (Protected Geographical Indication, a European certification of origin), benefits from a Label Rouge quality certification and, most importantly, it has been awarded the honorific title of Prince des Condiments.

Here are a couple of close-ups

Pumpkin and Avocados still life, oil palette knife painting

Pumpkin and Avocados still life

Oil on canvas panel, 24x18cm (approx 7x10inch)

Palette knife painting

80€ International shipping included

A friend of mine saw me looking at the pumpkins and squash at the local market. The next day she made me a present of a couple of pumpkins.
Unfortunately, we had already eaten one of them before I got around to painting doing the painting, so I used some avocados I had in my fruit bowl as a stand-in. But, as usually happens, when I paint fruit and veg still lifes, part of it disappeared before I finished the paintings. I had to do the final touches from memory.

Some close up crops of the knife work