Farmers Market Series - Yellow Hat.

Yellow Hat
6"x8" oil on canvas board $150.
Purchase HERE

Artist Note.
The yellow hat caught my eye.
AND...
yes...we allow dogs
 at our Farmers Market.

The market is getting full
of all kinds of goodies.
This week I bought
 lush red and yellow peppers
and other
wonderful veggies.

Passing on some info I was told
when I got the peppers.

Did you know that the female
pepper is sweeter than the male?
And... did you know that the female
pepper has three or four
distinct bumps
on its bottom where the male
 has two and is flatter?

You can see the top peppers
(which are upside down)
have clearly defined bumps
on their bottoms.

Okay friends, I had already published the
above about the male/female peppers
but
A nagging fact-finding vibe
kept coming into my mind
so I Googled it...
Sheesh...it is
NOT TRUE!

 Yes, there are four bumps
and three flatter bump types
but it has nothing to do with gender.
Apparently there are no gender
differences and the
sweetness depends on the soil!!

White Flowers And Porcelain

White Flowers And Porcelain

6"x6" oil on Raymar panel $120.

Purchase HERE

Artist Note

This was a demo for one of the 

Artist Guild classes.

It is the last month 

of the Guild sessions until August

and we are doing a refresher 

of everything which has 

been  reviewed this semester.

I started this painting with a 

 dark transparent paint

 covering 

the board 

and then I lifted off

the lighter design with a rag.

This exposes the white 

of the canvas. 

To make the main flower shape

 whiter I used a brush 

dipped in Gamsol to totally

lift off the underpainting.

I find it pretty easy to gradually 

build up  the shapes with

layers of color making sure 

only one or two flowers 

are a tad realistic and the rest 

just abstract suggestions of color.

Maybe this is the easiest way of all

for floral still life paintings.

I bet most of you have tried it. 

What do you think?

Sunning!

Sunning.
8"x 6" oil on Raymar panel $150. SOLD

This is part of an small adobe
house in the Upper valley area
of El Paso, Texas.
It is very old and once housed the
seasonal farm workers
for the large farm it is on.
It looks abandoned...
I guess machines
now do all the work .

Cats were everywhere!
They were very peaceful
and there was not a skinny one
to be seen.
There must be a treasure trove of
field mice around!