Cherry Bowl

The price of cherries is down and that is a sign for me to paint them. I started this with a lightened yellow ochre ground. 

12" x 12" oil on stretched linen. 

Three Cherries

I have been playing with palette knife painting after doing one for a challenge entry. This was started as a brush painting and stopped. This was a good one to try something on.

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Cherry and Chocolate Mint

This was the first version but is just didn't quite work for me. So I scraped the paint off the background and added dots.

I am slowly trying to paint larger. I did scrap and repaint some parts of this painting.

12 x 12 oil on panel

Cupcake and Cherry 2

I painted this first in watercolor. I decided to try it in oil. Although I think I may have used a slightly different photo. Below is the watercolor.

Cupcake and Cherries

I decided to create an oil painting after the last two watercolors failed.

6x6 Oil on Raymar panel

Cherry in a Yellow Bowl

I originally had a very dark background and hated it. After wiping it off I painted the light colors over the still dark wiped background and liked it. I guess there are "happy accidents" in oil too.

8 x 6 oil on Raymar Panel.

Cherries in a Yellow Bowl

I received a gift certificate to a local florist and gift shop. They carried a lot of nice large purses, the kind that could hold everything and you would never find it until you moved your stuff to a new purse. I went in with the intention of buying one when I saw these cute little bottles and the bowl in these great coordinating colors.

12 x 12 Oil on Stretched canvas.

Red Cherries in a Yellow Bowl

I painted this over a white ground rather than the colored ground I usually use. This seems to give it more color.

6x8 Oil on Raymar Panel.

Cherries no 4

I used to hate working with red. The cherry paintings were a way of forcing me to keep at it.

If you looked at the previous painting of cherries you may have noticed that the bowl looks smaller in this one, actually its the same size. I don't paint it exactly as I see it.

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Bowl of Cherries

This is the last of my cherries. I decided to do this in a red, white and blue theme.

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With a Cherry on Top

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The thing on the right is a napkin which I will probably work on some more today it just doesn't really read as a napkin.

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With Cherries on Top

This was submitted for a painting challenge which required you to paint something balanced. That is why the cherries are on the cup instead of in it.

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More Cherries

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Three Cherries 2

I painted this yesterday but did not get a photo taken. Working with these reds that are more on the blue end works better for me. I have added Cobalt blue to the shadows but use ultramarine with the white for the shadows in the background.

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Cherry Present

I bought more cherries so I will probably be putting them in my paintings. I wasn't sure about the red and pink but I finally managed to make it work.

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Five Cherries

sold

More Cherries although I had to overlook the imperfections like a little wrinkled.

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Three Cherries

I bought these cherries a week ago and they were starting to go bad. I decided to paint them to justify the $6 a pound I paid for them.

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