"Orbs"

 

 

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6" x 8" oil on archival canvas panel

 

From the "I Swear The Title Is Not A Dirty Euphemism" file. I meant to paint this arrangement last week using an Australian blood orange - they were rounder and more red - but the roommate wiped out the last orange before I could paint it. I had to substitute a tangerine instead. The glass item is actually a teapot, the roundness of which inspired both the idea and the title.

"Vase, Glass, And Mango"

 

 

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5" x 7" oil on gessoed panel

 

I thought I would try a little more traditional still-life setup on the smaller daily painting format. These are some thrift store items and a Brazilian mango (according to the label) that I picked up at the store the other day. I didn't really have anything special in mind for this one, I just put the items together, picked up the brush, and went at it.

"Uranium Glass Cat"

 

 

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5" x 7" oil on gessoed panel

 

Title says it all - this is a cat made from Uranium Oxide glass. I bit off more than I was expecting to chew with this one. I accidentally overslept on this workday, and the late wakeup put me under time pressure to set up and start painting, so I grabbed the cat from the roommate's curio cabinet, put it on top of a box, stuck a sheet of paper under it to break up the background, turned on the light, and got to work. It took a lot of work to cope with the varied colors, reflections, transparencies, and opacities on what appeared to be a simple green piece of glass.

 

If you ever see one of these Uranium Glass antiques, you should know that the glass is not dangerous, but it really is made with a form of Uranium. And yes, the feet of the cat were off the paper on the actual object, so although it looks like it's floating, that's how it sat on the box top.