Monday, September 24, 2012

52 Weeks 100 Paintings #41 Salt Shaker



Painting #41
Salt Shaker 5" x 7"
Oil on Canvas Panel
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Design is one of those things that you tend not to notice unless it's bad. Which is unfortunate, because there are lots of examples of really nice design that just sit there unnoticed because they just sit there doing what they're supposed to do and looking like they're supposed to look. This salt shaker is a perfect example. I've been picking one up exactly like it for over 40 years now, and until recently, I never really looked at it. That's one of the things I really like about this painting series. I'm starting to look more closely at a lot of things that have always just kind of been there. And I'm finding that there are a lot of really cool things all around me, if I only take a second to enjoy and appreciate them.



Thursday, September 13, 2012

52 Weeks 100 Paintings #38 - Zinnias


Painting #38 - Zinnias
5" x 7"
Oil on Canvas Panel
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Our first house together after we got married had a tiered garden in the back. We filled it with cosmos, nastirtium and zinnias along with other flowers and the occasional vegetable. The zinnias were the brightest and most colorful and very quickly became my favorite. They still remind me of those early, giddy days of wedded bliss. Of course, now the days are not-so-early, but I'm still giddy and it's still bliss. So I got that going for me.


Which is nice.



52 Weeks 100 Paintings #37-Apsco Giant 6 Hole Pencil Sharpener


Painting #37
Apsco Giant 6 Hole Pencil Sharpener
7" x 5"
Oil on Canvas Panel
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 New pencil sharpeners don't do it for me. No number of double AA batteries can provide the proper amount of power necessary for me to get the point I need. That's where the Apsco Giant 6 Hole Pencil Sharpener comes in. 6 holes to accommodate everything from golf pencils to pastel pencils to those giant starter pencils we had in kindergarten. Packed full of gears and blades working in perfect harmony to make short work of anything stupid enough to makes its way into one of its holes.
It weighs about 15 pounds. It could be used as a murderweapon in the game of Clue. And for some reason,it is a device that makes me very happy.



Saturday, September 8, 2012

52 Weeks 100 Paintings #36 Campbell's Soup l


52 Weeks 100 Paintings
Painting #36
Campbell's Soup I 
5" x 7"
Oil on Canvas Panel
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Life imitates art. Imitates life. Imitates art. Campbell's just came out with 4 different cans
of tomato soup based on Andy Warhol'sscreenprints of Campbell's Tomato Soup.
Which I am now painting. One down. Three to go.


Monday, September 3, 2012

52 Weeks 100 Paintings #35 - nutella


Painting #35 - nutella
8" x 10"
Oil on Canvas Board
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I'm not sure how I made it 40+ years without heeding the
siren call of nutella. Trust me. I'm making up for it now.



52 Weeks 100 Paintings #34 - Crayons


Painting #34 - Crayons
7" x 5"
Oil on Canvas Board
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Next week I'll have a 7th grader and a 4th grader. Yeesh. Meanwhile, the cavalcade of school supplies continues.