Mint, Lime and Peach!
6x6in oil on canvas board $100.
Day 23 in the 30 in 30 Days Challenge
My personal goal for this challenge - to paint only
what I have never painted or thought of painting before.
Panic today, what to paint?
I am having to resort to restroom stuff for the Challenge.
Love the juxtaposition of the colors in this one.
This is from the studio and consists of mint mouthwash,
cups, lime hand cream and peach soap.
Artist Note.
I painted for a couple of hours on another piece only to wipe
it all off. Feel my pain?
Still learning Windows 8. Frustrating. Lots to learn!
I do appreciate you visiting my blog and thank you.
I recognize both the subject and the feeling of "what to paint?". You did it beautiful today and I like the connection with the blue background, feel like sea/bath etc.
ReplyDeleteThanks Roger. I enjoyed the color combinations.
DeleteLove your single apple today.
I feel more of the pain of trying to adjust to Windows 8 because I'm still cursing under my breath at Win 7! Checking in each day to see what you've chosen to paint has been a totally enjoyable way to start my day.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely thing to say Lauren - thank you.
DeleteYes, the computers are so difficult, but I feel I am really going to like the W8 better than anything before it. It is so much like my phone and I have got used to that.
That 'what to paint' has to be something I really think way ahead on..but - lately - they mine are 'wipers' too. I think the bright pastels colors in this one are very appealing! Paint on!
ReplyDeleteThanks Pattie and I love your animals. You are right it would have been easier to plan ahead, but
DeleteI cannot because I wanted this to be a challenge of responding to new subject matter as I found it. Just a personal thing, but if I took the time to organize and plan it would be more like how I normally do it. This way it has lived up to its name of a CHALLENGE!.
Your bright colors add cheerfulness in the greyness of January.
ReplyDelete6 days of sun since the beginning of the year here, misery!
Have a good day .
(I love your sketch)
Your new painting is simple beautiful. congratulations. Wishing you more sun!
DeleteIt's utterly amazing how you have made such mundane objects so stunningly beautiful! I will never look at my mouthwash or hand soap in quite the same way now!
ReplyDeleteHad a grin on my face reading this one - thanks Susan. Your new horse painting is amazing.
DeleteYes, I feel your pain. Today, yesterday and the day before! I love the subject matter and you've done a wonderful job with it. I really like to see subjects that aren't particularly beautiful by themselves and often overlooked, come together in a painting that catches my attention and makes me say WOW! I feel like I can grab the cups and I actually smell the aromas of mint and peach!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great comment and I thank you for it Bruce.
DeleteI enjoyed seeing your rose and beautiful bottle
These colors, colors that I love, signs of joy, mosaic of harmony!
ReplyDeleteEven without any recognizable form, this movement of color is fantastic in my eyes!
Love it - thanks so much my dear Rita.
DeleteLaughing. Computers and mouth wash. Have you visited your closet yet? Just kidding. I love how we who are doing this challenge are stretching. You captured your colors beautifully and there is that background I love so much.
ReplyDeleteHey - my closet...thanks for the great idea, Helen.
DeleteLove your trike - I have never painted one of them so going looking.
I love the colors on this piece Julie. So fresh and zesty.
ReplyDeleteI'm really loving all your unexpected subjects! You do a great job of making the ordinary beautiful!
ReplyDeletethanks, kathleen, but it maybe because the ordinary is beautiful. What is it they say - beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I am grateful you behold mine.
DeleteCommon household items, and you have made them sparkle with life! LOVE this, Julie!
ReplyDeleteNice of you Claire. love your painting of the horse.
Deleteyou had a scraper painting and then proceeded to paint this one?? wow! way to "come back"!
ReplyDeleteThanks Celeste. The sky in your new landscape is amazing.
ReplyDeleteHi Julie - I'm familiar with your work but never fully appreciated it until your recent feature on The Art Room blog. So glad for that second look! And yes - feeling your wiper and windows pain. :)
ReplyDeleteHow sweet of you, thanks. I am looking forward to weekend so I can sit and go through the rest of the Art Room posts.
DeleteLove the fabulous painting of your niece.
Dear Julie - even the ordinary bathroom items look elegant when you are finished - so beautiful - wishing you well on your next day's endeavor. God bless! Featured your lovely blog on mine - hope you didn't care - just wanted more folks to see your art.
ReplyDeleteI was touched and delighted you mentioned me in such a lovely way and I thank you. You have such a generous spirit.
DeleteBlessings, my friend.
Beautiful! Looks like a great piece for a doctor or dentist's office too!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea. You have lots of them.
DeleteJulie, I Look forward everyday to seeing what you painted. You are getting me through this frigid month of January with your whimsical daily paintings. Carry on!!
ReplyDeleteYou make me fell good. thank you. I also have enjoyed the more lighthearted subject matter.
DeleteYour beautiful still life has me yearning to do something like that myself.
Of course we feel your pain, we have all been there.
ReplyDeleteLovely painting and I love the colors and the subject matter you have been choosing, bumping up the challenge just a bit!
Bumping up the challenge eh? - well you have been bumping up your florals and I think they are fantastic.
DeleteBeautiful blues, Julie...wonderful subject for this still life.
ReplyDeleteThanks Hilda. Hope all is well in your world. Looking forward to another one of your paintings.
DeleteYes, I feel your pain... ;o), but your paintings are some of the most interesting to see. How did the fracturing training video go?
ReplyDeleteThe video has been completed in is getting its final editing at DPW. I expect it any day. My concern it will be a dud. Fragile!
DeleteYou are so nice to remember and ask.
Delightful! Looks fresh and tropical!
ReplyDeleteThanks carol. Nice of you to stop by. Hows Green Valley at this time of year?
DeleteLove the glint of orange on the cups! Great work, Julie!
ReplyDeleteYou have an artists eye and notice everything dean. Glad you liked it. Thanks.
Deletenice!!!love the brilliant colors you used!
ReplyDeleteHi Lavon - do you know it is impossible to get hold of you? I tried to reply to your Albuquerque request.
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