Water Lillies Painting a Day

These white water lillies are not a Monet knockoff, but rather painted from a photograph, and just to be different (or to save canvases), it is painted on the acrylic-primed back, or verso, of a previous 5 by 7 canvas.

Painted simultaneously, an orange friend for the octopus the other day:

Candle and Roses Painting of the Day

An oil painting for painting-a-day: A candle on a black candle holder lights up a few roses in a blue vase. A rose glows as the flame flickers, the wax shows its translucency, and strong shadows are cast on the petals.

Painting a Day

This is the 6x6 inch miniature winter edition of the same plant I painted in early autumn. It went from life to death, black of night to snow-white day, dark abyss of a background to a sprawling forest of sticks and dead or dying plants. The sun shines brightly on this cold day.

Painting A Day

At this festive season of the year, it is more than usually desirable for painters to paint holiday subjects in their "Painting a Day" themes. This will be my first holiday season doing the painting-a-day project, so I could start the tradition today.

The star of today's painting: the color Viridian: a cool and deep blue-green that is second only to turquoise in terms of beautiful blues, and this wreath's hues were full of it. Always a visual pleasure to see so much of it on the canvas. As for an actual star, we'll save the star atop the Christmas tree for a later picture.

Painting a Day: Tromp L'oeil Plant

After a series of indoor still-life subjects such as a grapefruit, espresso cup, peach, apple and orange, my "Painting a Day" project continues outside on the deck at night to paint a potted plant and vine. I may be a bit presumptuous, but I hope this attempt is worthy to call a "Tromp L'oeil" painting, which means to "fool the eye" by painting something as realistically as possible and showing the objects as if they "jut out" from the canvas.