Sliced round

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There is always room for an orange.

Tulip taffy

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These colors are so yummy. Not sure if I am going to get any more tulips to paint mine finished blooming last week.

This weekend I will be exhibiting as an emerging artist in the East Lansing Art Fair, Saturday and Sunday. This is their 50th Annual event. Lots of great art and things to see and do.

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Still single

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The same tulip in a different pose.

Were up

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These tulips are from my very own garden.I decided to remove all the background clutter..

Single

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The tulip's are coming.

Daffy III

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This is the last painting of daffodils for this year.  Moving on, the tulips are blooming.

Wall vase

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This piece of glass has a little pocket for flowers and is one of my favorite's purchased from a gallery on the artisan loop in Gatlinburg Tn.  To get those great shadows it took a clip on lamp held underneath the vase.

Daffy II

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Flowers popping up, trees budding, spring is coming.

Daffy

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Finally they bloomed, first there was one, then the others came along.

Tomatoes

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Although this painting is square your eyes should be going around and around.

Dusk

This painting is from memory riding my 4 wheeler in the woods as the sun sets right before everything looses definition and then ....... you can't see.

25 Works, 25 Years Project

This is a commission for a project in Ann Arbor. 25 artist were commissioned to do sketches of historical sites. This train car the Detroit & Mackinac is on display sitting on the tracks.  The building is at 115 Depot street.

Orange appeal II

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Very similar to the first painting. It's so exciting painting oranges and reds this time of the year waiting for spring to come and all the colors of nature to awaken.

Pink daisy

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My first plant purchase of the year and the blooms are gone for now.

Winter stream

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Better wrap up the winter stuff we could be heading towards spring soon.

Broken II

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This broken glass intrigues me lately.  This is almost the same as Broken.  What comes to mind..... hmm sorry or "My life's in shatters" as Mick Jagger has been known to say.  After giving this more thought it might have been"tatters" ?

Some raspberries

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The last few days were spent working  on a composition for a commissioned piece. It felt great drawing and using watercolors for testing color ideas and having the whole idea evolve forgot about the crappy weather for awhile. Today was spent cleaning and now after painting this the colors have cheered me up, hope they do the same for you.

Orange appeal

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Oranges and raspberries for breakfast and three slices of bacon that weren't included in the painting.

Broken

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Accident re-purposed.

Olive afloat

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Raining, the rest of the week isn't going to get any better.  The painting reflects my mood today.

Looking out

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Down to the Smoky Mountains for Spring break with my family. This was painted plein air from our room.  The weather was cold and spring had not arrived.  Usually the average temperature is in the seventies this time of the year.  We visited a valley called Cataloochee in North Carolina, what an adventure getting into the valley on a gravel road winding through the mountains it was beautiful, dangerous and stressful.

Garden and orchard

These are the fields behind a farm market that I visited last summer.The rolling hills, gardens and orchards surrounded their house, barn and business, what a peaceful place.  The market sold fruits, vegetables, cherry everything and baked goods, customer's drove miles to patronize them.  This was done plein air and has been sitting in my studio until now, it went into a frame today for a display of my art at our newly built library.

The last 5

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They would have been interesting Easter eggs too bad they are history.

Round em up

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These make very interesting round wheels complete with spokes.

Round slice

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One morning as breakfast was being served, sausage and eggs it was decided that some fruit was needed there was only one orange and everything was ready so slicing it was fast and made sharing easier they caught my eye.

White egg

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More is better so here is the second painting on this subject.  This time the carton was painted first and that was easier than the last painting.

Peppers in a bowl

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Painting the same subject is exciting, the challenge is to execute each composition differently from the previous.   There are similarities yet each can stand alone.

Colorful peppers

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Loved painting all these colors warmed me right up.

Mini red peppers

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At the grocery store they now have bags of small red, yellow and orange peppers. What a variety of shapes and sizes couldn't pass them up. There will be more paintings of these little sweeties.  They are still around and haven't shriveled yet so they are good keepers too.  Pretty soon they will be in a recipe called pepper steak one of our favorites in my family.