Peppers with Knife

52 Weeks 100 Paintings

Painting #23 - Peppers with Knife

7" x 5"

Oil on Canvas Board

Sold to Michelle Woodbury

Bert Pez

 

52 Weeks 100 Paintings

Painting #22 - Bert
5" x 7"
Oil on Canvas Board
Sold to Judy Sell

I picked up the first Pez when Sean was probably a year old. We were at the grocery store, he was in the seat in the cart and we were going down the candy aisle. I looked down and Fred Flintstone was looking up at me. I picked it up, Sean smiled and reached for it, and that was pretty much it. He's now taller than his Mom and and inch, inch-and-a-half shorter than me. He no longer fits in the cart. But we've been picking up Pez whenever we see a new one ever since. I'll get around to Fred eventually, but Bert's been on my mind lately. 

Sunflowers

 

52 Weeks 100 Paintings
Painting #21 - Sunflowers
5" x 7"
Oil on Canvas Board
Sold to Sarah Miller

Cherries

 

Painting #20 - Cherries
7" x 5"
Oil on Canvasboard
SOLD
7.13.12

When the people next door dragged their Christmas tree into the side yard and it sat for six months, it seemed a bit rustic. When it sat for a whole year, they graduated to trailer park status. But when the following year's Christmas tree, complete with strings of lights still attached, joined the dried out tree from the previous year, I knew that they had truly graduated to White Trash. We lost the White Trash Neighbors about six months ago when they finally abandoned the house. Although it's not so much that we lost our White Trash neighbors, but that we gained the giant cherry tree in what used to be their back yard. At first we just picked the ones that hung over our side of the fence. But finally, when I realized that the cherries were dropping, overripe, into the waist-high grass beyond the fence, I decided to take the matter into my own hands. Molly and I went over with a step ladder and picked more fresh cherries than I've ever seen in one place at one time. Plain cherries, cherry cobbler, cherry almond ice cream, we've enjoyed them in a variety of ways - it's been a veritable cherry fest around here. And now the very last of them are here in a white ceramic bowl by the kitchen sink.

Cookies

Painting #19 - Cookies
7" x 5"
Oil on Canvasboard
SOLD
7.8.12


Sprinkle cookies? Sugar cookies? Neither of those sound right. Angela says technically they're called 'Lofthouse' cookies. Whatever. All I know is that they're the best mass-produced grocery-store-bought cookies I've ever had.

Painting #18
Happy 4th of July
5" x 7"
Oil on Canvas Board
SOLD

 

This is what I see when I stand on my driveway and look due east.
Happy Fourth of July, everybody (even if it's the 5th)

Painting #17
Baby Bluebird Egg Cup
5" x 7"
Oil on Canvas Board
$17.00

I think part of it is in honor of the baby birds that hatched in the nest on our front porch today. But it's more because I've been looking at this baby bluebird egg cup behind the kitchen sink every day for what will be 16 years at the end of this month. And it makes me think of my Sweetie.