eBay Thursday: "Three Orchids"

 
I will call today "eBay Thursday", which is a good day to post a lonely little 10-day auction for a larger-than-small painting. Well, it's almost not Thursday anymore, but posting at 11:30 P.M. local is close enough for government work (now where's my billion dollars?). Painted from a locally purchased Philaenopsis Orchid which happily survived my painting sessions, and now graces the roommate's desk at work:
 
 

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8" x 10" oil on gessoed panel

 

Pansy Wednesday... And my cat, and some changes.

 
A couple of pansies for tonight, both of them on Etsy, both 6" x 8" on Ray-Mar canvas panel, both painted relatively quickly in the great outdoors from a live source. I apologize for the crummy photo of the first one:

 

"Purple Pansy" at Etsy

 

"Orange Pansy" at Etsy

 

Over the next couple of days I'm going to close up my Ebay store and move everything over to Etsy. I will still post items on Ebay occasionally, but fees, costs, and general downturn have made Ebay non-cost-effective. I'm also working on some fun stuff aside from the regular painting routine, a small preview of which is visible below, cleverly concealed within a gratuitous cat photo:

Yeah, here comes the Rooster...

 

No we ain't gonna die-e-e-e... And I'm not dead, either! Alas, this post is not about Alice In Chains, but there is a rooster - two of them, in fact, or if you prefer, one rooster shown two ways. This is a matched pair of 9" x 12" paintings on panel:

 


 

9" x 12" oils on gessoed panel...

"Rooster & Grapes" on Etsy

"Rooster & Nectarine" on Etsy

I've decided to move away from small daily paintings and start producing larger pieces. In consideration of those days when the daily 6x6 isn't any good, or when the non-art world rudely intrudes on my work routine - a Category of Pain under which I place the phenomenon of "economic collapse", by the way - my lack of an explicitly "daily" update makes a mockery of the word. I'm going to expand and change up things a bit, so I plan to make some changes around here over the next week or two. I've found a good place to acquire nice flowers at a reasonable price, so I will have some flower paintings in addition to other new stuff (flowers are a subject I've wanted to explore for a while, and with spring coming up, I'm that much happier to wander afield from small fruity things).

Hardware-Caused Delay

When they say three year warranty on computer power supplies, I think they really mean three year lifespan. I have a new PSU on the way but in the meantime I'm using the roommate's (non-art-oriented) computer, which leaves me unable to scan or process photos of anything. I'll be up again with some fun new things after the weekend, assuming UPS brings me what I need, and that the failure didn't wipe out any data.

I don't like computers... I only use them. At least when a pencil breaks, it doesn't take everything else with it.

Updates Forthcoming

I've been out of the daily sales business this week to work on some other projects. I've listed some of the recent holiday work on Etsy and will be updating sales links below. I'll be back with some small dailies again soon.

Here's a tiny fragment from the painting sketchbook, of a little something I'm working on, starring Nicole's superbly whimsical "Woodsy Ghosts". Hi Nicole!

"Love Snack"

 

 

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5" x 7" oil on gessoed panel

 

The box for these cakes actually does say they are a "snack". Any reference to the B-52's was built upon that basis.

"Black Heart And Rose"

 

 

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5" x 7" oil on archival canvas panel

 

My first one for February. I feel pretty good about it, despite its simplicity. January was pretty much a dead month and things aren't going so great here at the moment, so it felt good to get back to a familiar subject. I actually hadn't planned on doing anything with plums again so soon, but at the store the other day the lady of the house picked up a "black plum" at random and - mirable dictu! - it was shaped almost exactly like a heart. Pointiest plum I've ever seen. Ten steps further and we found a display of "Pacific Rose" apples. I put the color combination and the names together in my head and thus, we have our painting, with its Fake But Accurate title.