"Blue Plate Special"

6 x 6

oil on hardboard

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Couldn't resist this assortment of colors from the last trip to the grocery shopping!

"Veggie Stew"

9 x 12

oil on masonite

This painting is from a reference photo on Susan Carlin's blog. Susan is a San Antonio artist and offers lots of wonderful painting advice, including on-line painting sessions. For the next couple of weeks you can follow her travels to Ireland where she will attend a painting workshop. I looked at where she is staying...I want to go!!!

If you are interested in this painting challenge, you can access the photo on Susan's blog where she will post other artist's interpretation. I found the cabbage a very hard color to mix and ended up digging into some old tubes of paint and came across a Cobalt Violet Light which helped. Through lots of trial and error and numerous "wipe offs", I finally settled on the above color, but because of that, I'll never look at a red cabbage the same way again!

Unfortunately caught a glare on the background...black is really hard to capture without it.

"Veggie Plate"

9 x 12

oil on gessoed hardboard

Karin Jurick's current challenge for her DSFDF blog is this plate of freshly picked Georgia vegetables. There are always unlimited subjects to paint in the produce aisle!

"Almost Stew"

8 x 10

oil on masonite

More inspiration from the produce isle! Had several good days of painting with "models" from the grocery store.

"Almost Salsa"

8 x 10

oil on masonite

Another painting from the grocery store produce isle. My husband loves to keep homemade salsa in the refrigerator and this was just before the "chopping"!