Ten minute apples

My submission to the Ten Minute Challenge at Daily Paintworks. The idea is as it sounds: paint the same subject repeatedly for only ten minutes at a time. I moved the light and repositioned the apple for each. It was a great exercise! I'll probably do it again.

Ten minute apples

Oil on MDF

8" x 8"

Ill-fated cabbage

This is a doodle from an old sketchbook. I really should have redrawn it but I wasn't up for it tonight. I did, however, add some colour and shading in Photoshop. Based on a true story from the year of the Great Coleslaw Famine. Sad times indeed.

Posted for Illustration Friday's theme, Cultivate.

Studio still

Golden delicious

This one was an exercise in frustration. I had a nice, loose finished apple with lots of character but I kept touching-up to the point where I'd nearly repainted the whole thing and it lost all its zing. So I wiped it out with linseed oil and started again. The result is above. Not nearly as snazzy as the original but an important lesson was learned... don't overpaint!

Golden Delicious 
Oil on MDF 
6" x 6"

New paintings for sale

My most recent paintings are available in the shop.

(Green bottle, Softball Reflection and Zippo have been sold)

Spoons

This one's for Illustration Friday's theme-of-the-week: "stir". (The middle one is actually a spatula... he made a fuss so I had to let him be in it.) This one is available in the shop.

Spoons
Oil on MDF
8" x 8"

Green bottle

This was a quick and dirty effort. The MVP is the shadow.

This bottle came out of the ground of my childhood home. Many years before suburbia set in, the neighbourhood was a city dump. Whenever any gardening took place, some surprising items would emerge. Jam jars, medicine bottles, china fragments... all quite old.


Green Bottle
oil on MDF 
8" x 8"
Sold

Chicken portrait

Chicken
oil on MDF
6 x 6
Sold

Softball reflection

A small still life of the last softball from what used to be a vast collection. My childhood friend and I grew up near a softball pitch... anything that went over the fence we considered ours.

I'm adding this one to Illustration Friday's "Toy" theme. Sports fans may find that a stretch (or insulting) but, to me, it is intermingled with fond childhood memories of banana seat bikes, Rubik's cubes, skateboards and action figures.

Softball reflection

8" x 8"
Oil on MDF
Sold

Tree lino

Last weekend I made a half-hearted stab at a new linocut based on a tree doodle from my sketchbook. The cutting process was great but when it came time to print, I lost enthusiasm. The printing process seemed tedious so after just three proofs, I walked away. I'll just chalk this one up as practice.

Zippo

I thought I'd have a go at the Daily Paintworks challenge.

Zippo
6" x 6"
Oil on MDF
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