Lucky Duck

                                  6x6 Bid on this Painting

This is the DPW Challenge of the week: Reflections on Water. I submitted the idea inspired by a photo I took in Bend, Oregon this fall when the yellow leaves were everywhere. This duck and his buddies were enjoying the beautiful autumn day on a golden pond.

Three That Made the Cut

6x6 $90  

This week's challenge is "reflections". I couldn't decide whether to paint it from a higher or lower perspective- so I did both.As long as I was changing the view, I decided to change the color scheme as well. I've been leaning toward neutrals lately- maybe the grey weather????- so I went for color on the second painting, which I'll post tomorrow.

Gala

                              
Here's another of the 12x12's I recently painted. I'm enjoying painting a little larger than my dailies (not that I've abandoned the little ones...). Yesterday I even tackled an 18x24! This is pretty funny because I've painted as large as a 48x30 without hesitation. But now I'm applying the things I'm learning as a daily painter to the larger format.I don't want to avoid getting more detailed, so I use larger brushes. Anyway, enough about that. That's not even today's post. This post employs that little yellow bottle again, but I had to make it a little shorter because I didn't want to cut it off at the neck.

12x12 Paintings/ "Not a Great Hiding Place"

The mandarin orange was trying to hide behind the apple, but didn't realize that the reflection in the bowl would give his secret away. There's even a bit of his shadow peeking out, but he might have gotten away with that.