Winter Bouquet - SOLD

Winter Bouquet
Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 16"
SOLD at $17 plus $10 shipping.
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Another visit to the Food Bank over the weekend. It's so nice that I can also get flowers there, pick a couple of packages, and then discard the dead flowers, make a new bouquet from the survivors. Along with my blue vase from our local hospital thrift shop.

Sunflowers in Blue Vase - SOLD

Sunflowers in Blue Vase
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 20"
SOLD At Auction on DPW, starting at $40.
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Since this one didn't sell, I am offering it again, at auction. I'll let you guys determine the price. How's that?
Below is a Glarey Photo, but the colors are more accurate. It has a feel of green and yellow to it.

Sunflowers-Refined and Reduced - SOLD

Sunflowers - Refined and Reduced
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 20"
SOLD at $60 plus pickup.

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There was mixed reaction to the "Rough and Tumble Sunflowers" from the other day, so I decided that maybe I'm not quite ready for that style. You've got to be able to pull it off. I put this one back up on the easel, and made the leaves and background more polished looking. Better? I also have reduced the price. We'll see.

Sunflowers in Blue Vase

Sunflowers in Blue Vase
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 20"
Reduced and Offered again on 8/5/14
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A little bit more of a formal approach today, with blending and a slower style. I like it too.
I think the vase (which was a thrift shop find) turned out nicely. As I was painting I was thinking of how when you try to take a photo of a bunch of kids, they are all looking everywhere but at the photographer. "Look here, guys! Face front!"

Rough and Tumble Sunflowers - NA

Rough and Tumble Sunflowers
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 20"
Available at $100 plus $18 shipping.
Reworked on Jul 30, 2014.

This is a bit of an experiment. I normally smooth and blend pretty much the entire painting, but today I just left things "brushy" to see how it would work. What do you think? You can see all the brush scrubbing throughout. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it's different, anyway.