Nude Bathers at Spring Creek with a nod to Zorn

I have been playing with an idea today.  I really liked this painting by Andres Zorn and decided to borrow a figure from him and change it a little and add a few of my own from sessions with a model.  Not quite finished but enjoying the process and playing with the images.

SOLD! Lemons and Plums

Another cool painting of fresh picked fruit.  This one and its sister are on my ebay auction this week.
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The process

See how pretty this is?  Doesn't it beg to be painted?

       

Want to own it?  you can inquire here on this blog or if you read this on the last week of June/ 1st week of July then you can bid on it here... Click to Visit the Painting in Ebay

Instead of making pies

This morning I noticed the bowl of lemons glowing in a red bowl at my window sill and thought, " I need to paint those."  And then I thought, " Hmm I wonder if there are still any plums and blackberries growing in the community garden because another pie sure sounds good to me."  There were a lot of fallen, over ripe plums on the ground and plenty in the tree, and tons of blackberries and even a few pears so I gathered them up, picked some poke on the trail  and brought everything home and dumped them out on the counter.  Again, I thought, " they look so pretty there with the muted light coming in through the east window."  So of course, before I could turn them into a pie, they had to be painted.
Here's the result: