Purple Haze

"Purple Haze"
8" x 10"
Oil on canvas panel 

Two ginkgo leaves tumbled across the path where I found a maple leaf the other day.  They tumbled because they had withered and curled. I'd only seen these leaves flat and sprinkled like gold coins spilled from a parking meter.  I brought them in and drew them before they curled into cocoons or spooned like lovers.  The purple haze is a glazed complement to the golden leaves, and placed on another of my textured backgrounds.  

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Maple

"Maple"
6" x 6"
Oil on canvas panel 

The trees are bare in my zip code, except for one maple in my neighbor's yard. He's been waiting for a month to tend to them. They've been reluctant -- no, rebellious about letting go until it's too cold to rake, and the village no longer picks up leaf bags.  Yup, this is one stubborn maple, and here's the first leaf to fall from it.  I picked it up while walking my dog today.  Adamant, I say!  

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Turban Squash

"Turban Squash"
9" x 12"
Oil on canvas panel

I had never touched a turban squash, let alone painted one, yet I plan to eat this one now that I've done both.  Apparently designed by a committee of fashion engineers, this beauty is cinched in at the waist in an attempt at containing her ample girth. Tres chic? Not hardly, but I'll bet this fat lady can sing! 

The background is another of my previously-painted panels, made just for displaying a single subject such as this.

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Properly Propped Pepper

"Properly Propped Pepper"
9" x 12"
Oil on canvas panel 

Peppy's pretty pebble properly propped the perfect pepper by a paisley-patterned, printed paper.  Please palliate this pitiful post.  

Shame, shame on me for subjecting you to such nonsensical silliness.

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Peel Me

"Peel Me"
8" x 8"
Oil on canvas panel

I saw the light and shadows on the loose outer peel of this Bermuda onion and decided if I could get her home without the cashier mishandling her, I'd paint her on one of the backgrounds I had prepared for exactly this purpose.  It worked.  

I could grow to like painting from life ... more regularly.  

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Squashed

"Squashed"
9" x 12"
Oil on canvas panel

I painted with friends today; heard their sorrows, their joys and knew that I had been missed. There's something right about painting with people, every now and then. I'm a studio painter and paint alone 95% of the time, but being with this group makes my heart sing. 

I painted this squash from life while I was in Woodstock today. I also made a couple of new skies that I'll post over the next couple of days. It was a productive and cathartic day away.

Love to all of you,
Carol

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Oyster Pearl

"Oyster Pearl"
12" x 12"
Oil on wrapped canvas

When first I saw her, she glistened, held captive by the morning light. Luscious, like the pearl in an oyster, she wore simultaneously, the colours of the sun and the moon.  

I loved painting this rose, but her colours did startle me as I examined her closely, so closely. Then her fragrance distracted me... too.

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