Orange and Grapes

 

Orange and Grapes

5" x 7" 

Acrylic Paint on Ampersand Gessobord

Collection of the Artist

I love this one!  I should paint oranges more often.  It was fun to paint and so hungry painting, I ate the prop before I was finished.   That is why I paint so many pears.  I don't like pears and don't eat them, so they last for several paintings~  

Orange and Grapes was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery Ampersand Gessobord. Painting can be placed in a small frame and also be placed on a small easel for display.

This is the last of the paintings from the weekend~  Thinking of what to paint next.....maybe landscapes!  

Thank you for stopping by~

Torrie

Sea of Clouds

 

Sea of Clouds

12" x 12"

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Time to paint again!  

My surgery went well and I am on the mend.  Miranda's surgery was successful.  My new granddaughter and Miranda are going to be fine!  Audrey is very excited to have a new sister arriving in October. The ultrasound showed very long legs, just like her daddy~ After a less than wonderful six months, the six months to come are going to be fabulous!

I am getting all the paint and canvas out and painting again ~ wooohoooo!

Sea of Clouds was completed just before my surgery and the final varnish is going on today~

Sea of Clouds was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas. The gallery wrapped sides of the canvas are painted to allow for hanging with or without a frame.

Thank you so much for continuing to follow my work, especially during the hard times when new paintings were rarely posted.  

Torrie

Green Pears III

 

Green Pears III

6" x  6"

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Day 9~  Thirty paintings in thirty days in September  ~30 Paintings in 30 Days with Leslie Saeta. 

Well, I think this weekend will be a good time to catch up~ I have several things started, I just need to pick up the pace! 

Green Pears III was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame. Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

This painting has sold.

Thank you for stopping by~

Torrie 

Pear XI

Pear XI

5" x 7" 

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Day 8~  Thirty paintings in thirty days in September  ~30 Paintings in 30 Days with Leslie Saeta.  

Yes, I am still behind. This painting took longer than expected, so tomorrow is another day~  Hopefully, you are not tired of the pears.  There are other subjects to come - pigs, cows, chickens, cupcakes, nests, just to name a few~  I might throw in a pumpkin before the month is over.

Pear XI was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame. Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

This painting has sold.

Thank you for stopping by~

Torrie

Sunflower with Shadow

 

Sunflower with Shadow

5" x 7"

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Day 5~  Thirty paintings in thirty days in September  ~30 Paintings in 30 Days with Leslie Saeta.  

Continuing with the Sunflowers.  I was pressed for time to stay caught up and still work on the larger still life sunflower painting.  One of my sunflowers took a dive and had to be separated from the others.  When I put it off to the side in a small bottle, I noticed a cute shadow.  I thought this would look good on canvas and painting was born.

Sunflower with Shadow was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame. Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

Tonight, I am having dinner with friends, so I might get a day behind, but I will catch up on Friday night!

Thanks for stopping by~ 

Torrie

Robin's Three Eggs VII

 

Robin's Three Eggs VII

6" x  6"

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Robin's Three Eggs VII was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame.  Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.  

This painting has sold.

Time to get commissions finished up~  more fun painting later~

Thanks for stopping by,

Torrie

Facebook Page

Today with Leslie Saeta ~ ~ Leslie Saeta's 30 Marketing Ideas in 30 Days.  We were to make a "Badge".  I made one for my Facebook Page~

Click the "Like Me" badge above to visit my Facebook Page.  This is where the fun happens!  New paintings, in-progress paintings, and random artist stuff ends up on this page.

Stop by for a visit~

Torrie

Pears!

 

Pears!

Continuing to play with Leslie Saeta ~ ~ Leslie Saeta's 30 Marketing Ideas in 30 Days.  

Today we were asked to make a collage of some of our paintings currently available for purchase.  I selected my pear paintings for a very special reason.  It all started with pears.  About ten years ago, I decided to follow my dream of being a painter.  I started painting pears.  Pears in all shapes and colors~ loose and impressionistic, sometimes more realistic, but always colorful!  Whenever I am away from painting for any length of time or lose my inspiration to paint, I paint a pear.  It sparks my energy and gets me back into the artistic groove.  For this reason, there will always be pears.  Short fat ones, tall skinny ones, but always colorful!  ~ Interestingly, I don't eat pears...I think they taste bad~  HA!

These paintings are all available for purchase and can be found at my Website gallery or my Etsy.com store.

Tomorrow is another painting day~  I will be painting grapes, lemons, limes.....and maybe a pear!

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie

Playing with Leslie!

 

Fresh Orange III

5" x 7"

Acrylic Paint on Ampersand Claybord

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It's that time again.  Time to play with Leslie Saeta!  She has a new challenge and I am going to participate as much as possible.  This challenge is all about marketing~ Leslie Saeta's 30 Marketing Ideas in 30 Days.  We are to post an older unsold work that is one of our favorites.   I have loved Fresh Orange III since the day I painted it.  This is one of the first paintings I completed using Ampersand Claybord.  

Fresh Orange III was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality Ampersand Claybord. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish. 

This painting has sold.

Well, now off to bed~ tomorrow and the weekend I will be working on commissions.  I will post pictures of the finished paintings~

Thanks for stopping by~ 

Torrie

Mystery Art Show and Sale Today~

 

Bananas IV

5" x 7"

Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

 

Robin's Three Eggs VI

5" x 7"

Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

 

Traffic Signal Pears

5" x 7"

Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

These three paintings were painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame.  Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

The Mystery Art Show and Sale opening reception and sale begins at 5:30 pm today.  I will be there along with my sweet Miss Audrey admiring all the wonderful paintings for sale to benefit the Cleveland County Arts Council.  Stop by, purchase a painting or two, and support the local arts council.

Hope to see you there!

Torrie

Pear with Friends

 

Pear with Friends

6" x  6"

Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Pear with Friends was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame.  Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

I have finished and delivered the paintings for the Mystery Art Show next week.  I will be posting the available paintings throughout the coming week before the show.  I have started another large commissioned painting of bird houses and working on studies for a Notre Dame football painting.  I will be posting small paintings in between working on the commissions.

So much to do, so little time~  Spring is here!  I will be painting flowers and lots of them!

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie

Radishes

 

Radishes

6" x 6"

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Radishes was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame.  Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

This painting has sold.

I love the way this one turned out! I was having a good painting day~

I have fallen in love with my Vine video app...Kevin says they are not very good.  He is going to do the next one~ Click HERE to visit the short video of the painting in progress.

Tomorrow I start on the cupcake paintings~  there are several large and small.

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie

Hydrangeas

 

Hydrangeas

5" x  7"

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Hydrangeas was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame.  Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

This painting has sold.

I have been kind of in a slump not wanting to paint.  I have worked my way through it and spent today drawing ~ getting canvas ready for paint!  Things coming up~ radishes, cupcakes, bananas, rooster, and a pig!  Looking forward to a week of painting! Click HERE to see short video of the upcoming paintings~

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie

The Paintings of January ~ what I learned

The Eighteen Paintings of January

I tried really hard to keep up with the 30 Paintings in 30 Days with Leslie Saeta.  I finished eighteen paintings before I crashed and burned.  It was a great experience and I learned so much.  

First, it is quite difficult be a daily painter and also have a full time job.  I am fortunate to work from home, so travel to and from work is not an issue, I am always home, but there are just so many hours in the day.  It works for a while, but then the pressure starts to build to get everything else done in between painting and working.

Second, painting daily improves your skill tremendously!  As the days progressed, painting became so easy.  I was even impressing myself with what I was doing.  I loved being "in the zone" of painting daily.  It was amazing!  I look forward to retirement from the "real job"....guess what I will be doing~

Third, I think I could have been successful if I had painted pears only.  I love painting pears and it comes very easy for me.  Instead, I tried to think of new and different things to paint which expanded my horizons as an artist, but added the pressure of breaking new ground in skill level daily~

And last~ I realized what a full wonderful life I have.  My wonderful Kevin, who is so supportive of what I do, deserved more attention than I gave him.  I am sure he would have liked to have me sit and watch him watch soccer more than I did....or maybe not~

I have wonderful children and a beautiful granddaughter that are so much fun! I could never pass on a shopping or cupcake adventure~

Up next!  Well, the house is clean, the storage building has been emptied, and the taxes have been filed~ time to get back to what I love!  There are large cupcake paintings coming soon, more ballerinas, and of course pears.  I am looking forward to Spring and painting lots of flowers~  Maybe this is the year I will finally start the "porch" paintings.  Sitting on my porch in the evening and painting~

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie

Pear in the Spotlight

 

Pear in the Spotlight

8" x  8"

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Pear in the Spotlight, day 23 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days with Leslie Saeta.  This is a smaller version of the painting that is in my dining room.

Pear in the Spotlight was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame.  Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

Up next~I am working on a creamer with lemon, but I don't know if I will get it finished in time~ Painting as fast as I can!

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie

On Point IV

 

On Point IV

5" x 7"

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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I'm back!!  Finally back in the studio and playing catch up with the 30 in 30.  This painting is posted as #18.  I have to catch up with painting 14-17 as I missed those.  I will post these paintings as soon as they are completed, but they will not included on Leslie's blog as I missed the deadline.  

I fell Tuesday~ one of those nasty old lady falls that leave a mark.  I hit the wall with my face on the way down and the headache has just now subsided.  I might need to invest in one of those "I have fallen" buttons.  My granddaughter was with me and it was really funny.  I am laying on the floor dazed and she is looking down at me saying "It be alright GaGa - you okay?"  Yes, it was hard not to cuss and cry, but I didn't want to give her an even bigger story to go home and tell her mother....."Mommy, GaGa fell down and cried and said the bad words" --yepper, we couldn't have that~

On Point IV is #18 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days with Leslie Saeta. 

On Point IV was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame.  Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

This painting has sold.

Up next~ Ballerinas!  I will be painting a series of ballerinas.  These will all be 8" x 10" and larger.  There will be other small paintings in between for the non-ballerina fans~

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie

Pink Flamingo IV

 

Pink Flamingo IV

6" x  6"

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Pink Flamingo IV is #11 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days with Leslie Saeta.  Everyone who knows me or has been to my home, is acutely aware of my love pink flamingos.  Kevin tries hard to prevent any new additions to the collections, but I do sneak one in now and then~

Pink Flamingo IV was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame.  Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

This painting has sold.

Up next, I have no idea!  But I better come up with something soon~

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie

 

Low Tide

6" x  6"

Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Happy Friday!  This week has flown by~  Low Tide is #10 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days with Leslie Saeta.  I made it through the week, now lets see if I can get a bit ahead of the 

game over the weekend.

Low Tide was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame.  Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

Up next, something I love, but don't paint often ~ Pink Flamingo.  Check back tomorrow~

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie

Salt and Pepper IV

 

Salt and Pepper IV

6" x  6"

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Salt and Pepper IV is #9 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days with Leslie Saeta.  This is getting tough.  I know what I want to paint in the morning, but by the time I get off work in the afternoon, and ready to paint, I have changed my mind.  

Salt and Pepper IV was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame.  Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

This painting has sold.

Up next, who knows, but hopefully, it will be done before tomorrow~  HA!

Thanks for stopping by,

Torrie

Orange Slices

Orange Slices

5"  x  7" 

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Orange Slices, #8 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days with Leslie Saeta.  I am getting farther behind than I want to be, but I am hanging in there! 

Orange Slices was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides to allow for hanging without a frame.  Painting can also be placed on a small easel for display.

This painting has sold.

Up next, more still life~ I have started the Salt and Pepper shakers~ I just need to finish~  Then I think another landscape.

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie