"This Way Please" 6x6

"This Way Please"

6x6 oil on panel

This is another painting with the batch of cherries I picked up at the market. I like putting different colors under the still life items I set up. It just adds some extra dimension and color to the overall design. The cherry in front wouldn't stand up correctly and "point" the same way as the others, so I came up with the title this way!

This painting is available for sale in my Etsy shop Denise Rose Studio

"Fruit Plate" 6x6

"Fruit Plate"

6x6 oil on panel

Small still life study of apples and cherries. I tried to keep loose and not try to do my edges of the plate and fruit so perfectly. It is hard to do! It seems like it would be easier to keep it loose and not try to draw everything just as it is, but as many of my artist friends know, it isn't. I am getting a little better the more that I do at just letting go though. Lots of shadow on this one because of the angle of my light.

This painting is available for purchase in my Etsy shop, Denise Rose Studio.

"Family Farm Home" 6x8

I have many other hobbies and things that I love to do besides paint. Some have come and gone (and I still have the "stuff" to prove it!) but scrapbooking is one that remains. I have a great group of friends in my "Scrapbooking Club" that meet once a month to visit, share, eat, and hopefully record some of those memories for our families! Although I now have moved on from "paper" scrapbooking to digital only, I still meet with them and now bring my laptop to scrap on!

On this particular day, we were meeting at one of the member's farms which they just built and is a working hay farm. I brought my plein air supplies and set up and painted their home there while everyone else worked on their scrapbooks. My friend loved it and gave it to her husband for Christmas. I loved painting all the angles and the pretty red color of the house. Although I just intended it to be a "sketch" and not a "finished" painting, it turned out okay and was so fun to do!

"Valley Barn" 8x10

This painting was painted from a photo I took while in the Nashville area for a workshop this past summer. Like many artists, I have a "thing" for barns! It might be cliche, but I can't help myself! They just speak to me when I drive by so now I veer over (safely, usually!) and take photos if I can't whip out my paints and paint it right then and there. This one is located in the lovely little community called Leiper's Fork. If you ever get near Nashville, you have to drive around here. Cool little grocery store/restaurant that is really a Southern landmark called Puckett's Grocery to eat a great, southern lunch too!