Reflections in oils

Sometimes a title for a painting just comes naturally and other times it takes me forever to think of a title.   This time around the painting  sort of named itself as I love the way the nectarines are reflected in the silver jug as well as the table and so the title Reflections seems rather appropriate.

Reflections is painted on 6 x 6 inches Ampersand Gessobord.

Peach in oils

Enjoyed painting this one.  It is a yellow peach. Love the colours.  On the weekend I came across another  variety at the fruit shop - Golden Queen peaches.  They are really delicious - taste better than the yellow peach variety.  They are more "peach" in colour.  Will have to buy some more and do still life painting that includes them. 

Peach is 5 x 5 inches on Ampersand Gessobord.

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Peace Rose in oils

Decided to paint another rose.  Thought the rain drops were rather a nice touch. It is 6 x 6 inches on Ampersand Gessobord.

Many thanks to Nicola B for the reference photo.

Hibiscus in oils

I actually went outside to look for a lemon but saw that the hibiscus was flowering and it looked so beautiful that I decided to paint it instead - can always pick a lemon another day.  It is 5 x 5 inches on Ampersand Gessobord.

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How cute am I - Bull Dog puppy in oils

The one art forum I belong to runs a challenge ever now and again and this month it was a very cute Bull dog puppy.  I couldn't resist painting this adorable little puppy.  It is 6 x 6 inches on Ampersand gessobord.

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Brown Beauty (Horse) in oils

Was going through a few of my  photo's and came across the photo's that I took in October 2011 when visiting an open garden in Maleny (Maleny is about a 30 minute drive from where I live).  It is a lovely  garden which has actually now opened up as a botanical gardens (http://www.malenybotanicgardens.com).   So how did I end up with horse reference photo's?  Well the neighbouring property had horses and they seemed rather curious to all the comings and goings so naturally I took photo's of them. I did also take photo's of the gardens and will probably use some of them as reference photos in  future landscape paintings.

Wasn't sure on what title to give my painting.  I think  horses are such beautiful animals so eventually settled on "Brown Beauty" as the title. The painting measures 6 x 6 inches on Ampersand Gessobord.

Lemon Tea in oils

This is my next still life.  The lemon was about the same size as the teacup! Our lemons can grow to rather a large size.  The reason being is that we have a worm farm and they produce what I call "worm juice".  The plants love it and since using it on the lemon tree we tend to grow  rather large lemons.  It is rather handy having a lemon tree around - there is always one ready to be picked when you need one.   Was fun painting the lemon so I am thinking of doing another painting featuring just a lemon or lemon pieces. 

Lemon Tea measures 7 x 5 inches on Ampersand Gessobord.

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