The Pear Chronicles 011 ~ The Series Continues!

The Pear Chronicles 011
4" x 6"
Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
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Continuing with the Pear Chronicles, this is a gold pear with a red background.

The Pear Chronicles 011 was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a gallery wrapped museum quality canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish.

Whenever I am away from painting for a while, I like to get back into the swing of things by painting a pear. It is like catching up with an old friend and getting back on track. I painted this pear with loose "mosaic-type" strokes to enter into the DPW Challenge. I am fascinated with the painting challenges and seeing what artists do with the same reference photo. This is my first time to participate and plan on continuing whenever time permits. I am currently working on the Zippo lighter and will post that entry when it is completed.

This painting has sold.

Well, off to paint, so much to do....so little time!

Thanks so much for stopping by~

Torrie

New ~ The Pear Chronicles 010

The Pear Chronicles 010
4" x 6"
Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
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Continuing with the Pear Chronicles, this is a predominantly green pear with red highlights on a soft light blue background. I am really enjoying the small pear paintings, they will continue~

The Pear Chronicles 010 was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a gallery wrapped museum quality canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish.

This painting has sold.

It has been a long day of painting, I have finished the large Pear commissioned painting and I will be posting a picture tomorrow. This painting is a recreation of my August Pear.

Well, time to clean up and get some sleep, check back again soon,

Torrie

New Year, New Paintings~

The Pear Chronicles 009
4" x 6"
Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
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Continuing with my little pear series in 2011, this is The Pear Chronicles 009, a single very blue pear with turquoise highlights. This is a one of my favorites!

The Pear Chronicles 009 was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a gallery wrapped museum quality canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish.

This painting is available for purchase using the PayPal button above for $30.00 with $8.00 for United States priority shipping. This painting can also be purchase at my Gallery Website or my Etsy.com store.

New Year and back to work~ Last year was a wonderful year full of changes and blessings. I am very fortunate to have a wonderful life and a fabulous family. 2011 can only be better! There will be more paintings and more fun~

These past few weeks I have been busy with commissions that I could not post to prevent the people receiving some of these paintings from seeing them before they were gifted to them. These paintings are recently completed and moved on to their new homes.

Miss Audrey Grace - Year One
8" x 10"
Pastel on Paper

This is my beautiful granddaughter who spent last Christmas as a preemie in the NICU unit at the hospital in Asheville. This year, she is healthy, happy, and my joy! This painting was given to Audrey's other grandmother for Christmas.

The Wright View at High Rock
8" x 10"
Acrylic on Canvas Panel

The Cow III
11" x 14"
Acrylic on Canvas Panel

The Cow II
12" x 12"
Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Up Next~

I am continuing to work on two more commissioned Pear paintings. The Pear Chronicles paintings continue. I am also working on large paintings for the upcoming Heart Gala in Charlotte in February.

Check back again soon to see what I am up to,

Torrie

The Pear Chronicles 008

The Pear Chronicles 008
4" x 6"
Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
Available for Purchase
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Continuing with my little pear series, this is The Pear Chronicles 008, a single warm orange/red pear with a dark loosely painted background. I love this one!

The Pear Chronicles 008 was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a gallery wrapped museum quality canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish.

This painting has sold. To see more paintings currently available for purchase, please visit my website gallery or my Etsy.com store.

I have loved painting the pears and there will be more!

Coming Up~

Along with more pears, I have a commission to do of a black and white pear, I am finishing a lily pond painting, and then will begin working on really large pieces ~news on that to come.

Thanks for stopping by,

Torrie

The Pear Chronicles 007 and More!

The Pear Chronicles 007
4" x 6"
Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
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Continuing with my little pear series, this is The Pear Chronicles 007, a single red pear with a deep blue loosely painted background.

The Pear Chronicles 004 was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a gallery wrapped museum quality canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish.

Now a short explanation of where the heck I have been and what happened this past week:

I am a huge fan of EBSQart.com and that is where I maintain a gallery, but more than that, they have really cool templates and image hosting that I use to maintain all the blogs and websites. The stat counters at the site help me keep up with all that I have floating out in the Internet. Well, it was time for a site upgrade which is always tricky. That, on top of the fact I do not accept change well and have no patience, has made for a very long week. It's not the change thing that gets me as much as the learning curve that comes with a site upgrade--learning how to do things a different way.....(in a nutshell, I am getting old and set in my ways). HA! EBSQart is still working on problems. I can't upload new paintings to the site as of yet, but tomorrow is another day. I will do the best I can with what is working so far.

Now, what you might have missed~

The Pear Chronicles 006
4" x 6"
Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
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This pear painting in the Chronicles Series sold in the downtime. I am sorry it did not make the blog before it sold. For those of you who want to get a sneak peek before paintings make it to the blog and stores, the paintings are first posted on my Facebook Fan Page. The first place I list my paintings for sale is my Etsy.com store. The Etsy site is just convenient and easy to use, so I post there first, then EBSQart, then my website and on from there.

The following paintings were donated:

The Ballerina IV
16" x 20"
Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

The Pear Chronicles 005
4"x 6"
Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Annie Salness, an Artist friend who I met working with the Different Strokes from Different Folks painting challenge blog, recently suffered a stroke and is recovering at home with her family. There will be a fund raiser the details can be found by clicking here and going to the event announcement on Facebook. I will be shipping these paintings Tuesday morning.

Well, that about does it for now. I will be posting my painting that I won from Angela Sullivan. I framed it this week and it is now on the end table in my living room.

Until tomorrow,

Torrie

The Pear Chronicles 005 ~ New Pear in the Series

The Pear Chronicles 005
4" x 6"
Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
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Continuing with my little pear series is The Pear Chronicles 005

The Pear Chronicles 005 was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a gallery wrapped museum quality canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish.

This painting has sold.

Up Next~

Have you ever had one of those days where you would have gotten more accomplished staying in bed that what was done today... well it has been one of those days. For those of you that follow my work on EBSQart.com, the site is currently undergoing an upgrade and it is hit or miss if you can view the galleries there. Give it just a bit more time and the site should be fabulous.

I am continuing with the small pear series, it is too much fun to stop now. I lingered in the pears at the local grocery store until I looked like a stalker (of pears). There were so many different varieties. This is really going to be fun.

Well, I had better get busy, there is still much to do before I call it a day~

Thanks for stopping by,

Torrie

Another Day, Another Pear ~ The Pear Chronicles 004

The Pear Chronicles 004

4" x 6"

Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Continuing with my little pear series is The Pear Chronicles 004, a single golden pear with a multicolored loosely painted background. I have painted versions of this pear before ~ it is one of my favorites.

The Pear Chronicles 004 was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a gallery wrapped museum quality canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish.

This painting has sold. To see more paintings currently available for purchase, please visit my Gallery Website or my Etsy.com store.

I am really enjoying the small pear paintings. There will be one more tomorrow and then I will have to take a short break and work on larger commissioned paintings this weekend.

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie

The Pear Chronicles 003 ~ Continuing the series....

The Pear Chronicles 003

4" x 6"

Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Continuing the Pear series with The Pear Chronicles 003. This is so much fun. What started out as ordering the wrong size canvas has turned into quite the adventure.

The Pear Chronicles 003 was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a gallery wrapped museum quality canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish.

I have varnished 004 and 005 and they will be posted next. After that, I think I will move to a Bosc pear next.

This painting has sold, to see more paintings currently available for purchase, please visit my Website Gallery or my Etsy.com store.

Tune in tomorrow for 004~

Torrie

The Pear Chronicles 001 ~ New Painting Series

The Pear Chronicles 001

4" x 6"

Original Painting on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
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I have started a new series of small pear paintings. I think I will call them "The Pear Chronicles" and then give them a number. Coming up with different titles would be too hard~ There will be at least 20 of the small pear paintings....more if I continue having fun. This is the first pear in the series, 001~

The Pear Chronicles 001 was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a gallery wrapped museum quality canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish.

So far in the Pear Series, paintings in progress and near completion are a green pear, a gold pear, a multicolored pear, and a gold pear with a multicolored background. Next to be posted is 002 in the series, a green pear.

I will be working on larger commissioned pieces for the upcoming holidays in between the small pear paintings. I will post pictures of these paintings as they are completed so you can see what else I am up to.

Happy November and have a wonderful day~

Torrie