Patio Still Life

9x12 oil on board

Beautiful day to be out side painting, everything just right!

Peach Pie

5x5 oil on board Peach Pie SOLD!

Pastry for a double crust 9" pie. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. 5 cups of peaches sliced. 1/3 to 1/2 cup all purpose flour. 1/4 to 1tsp cinnamon.2 Tbutter. 2Tsugar.
Mix peaches with dry ingredients,turn into unbaked pie shell and dot with butter. Cover with top crust, cut slits, seal edges and brush with milk and sprinkle with sugar.
Bake 35 to 45 minutes until brown and juice begins to bubble thru the slits. Sooooo good!!!

Garden Path

5x7 oil painting on board

Crow Painting on Copper

5x7 crow oil painting on copper SOLD!!

Yesterday I put peanuts out for the Blue Jays as I do every day. We have wonderful birds and deer and all manner of wildlife here in this lovely corner of the earth where I am so fortunate to live. There were many crows wandering , some would say skulking about the area. The little Jays swooped down to weigh and take a peanut and all of a sudden a huge swish and down flew the crows!! It was an exciting moment, my back door being open I edged my way back in the house. Of course the Jays vanished and the crows just took over the pile of peanuts! Big flapping sounds of wings and caw sounds and amazingly I was so close. Some were timid to my presence but most cared less!! They had their sights on those peanuts!
They were huge and they were beautiful, with their shiny black feathers, just beautiful!
My sister Julie and Iwere talking about my incredible experience and she said "paint a crow on copper!! " So here it is, Crow on Copper!

Art Workshops

I will be giving a painting seminar for four days September 27thru the 30th. In Vancouver, Washington at Arts Desire. I will be giving instruction on painting small paintings. I hope to see many of you there!
In San Mateo , California I will be giving a seminar on the small paintings in November the 2nd and 3rd.
I am so enthusiastic about these small works and it is fun to see that you are too!
If you would like info on the classes as they come up or any other information or questions you might have please email me at susanjenkinsart@charter.net

Thankyou, XO

Pomegranate still life on copper

8x10 oil painting on copper SOLD

I have a couple pieces of copper left and I am really having fun painting on it. Obiously I am also loving painting pomegranates !!

Lily Pond

5x7 oil painting on copper

Morning Thoughts

Thinking about painting this morning and what I would like to paint, it occured to me that I have done quite a few paintings of food! I was going to paint another food painting this morning! I think not. I did enjoy painting the burger and cherry pie tho!

I have a couple of pieces of copper and one is a 5x7. I painted on copper years ago. Just for something different. A different "support". I am going to paint on that this morning and I have an idea of what I would like to paint. It will be fun!

To paint on copper you need to first rough it up a bit with steel wool, give it some tooth.Clean it then with alchohol. Paint the piece with a thin coating of oil paint. I used fast drying white.Once it is dry proceed as usual as you would with board or canvas.

It gives a luminous look to the work I think. Don't use alot of paint for this, keep it sort of thin.

Ok, I am off to my studio! XO Susan

Cherry Pie

6x6 oil painting on board SOLD

4 cups cherries pitted. 1 cup of sugar.1/4 cup of flour.1/2tsp cinnamon.Pastry for a double crust 9" pie.Mix ingredients for filling and turn into pastry lined pie pan. Top with crust & cut slits, flute edges, brush with milk and sprinkle with sugar. Bake at 425 degrees for 25 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 and bake 25 to 30 minutes more. Yummy!!

Pomegranate still life

16x20 oil painting on canvas (detail) 3 of 4 Having a bit of trouble with my camera. Working to get the color right . Spending way too much time on this!! Back to painting!

Eggs 6 pack

8x10 oil painting on board 275. SOLD

Pepper's

5x7 oil on board 125.

Burger

6x6 oil painting on board 125.

Oh boy! Painting this made me very hungry for a burger!!

Cow

5x7 oil painting on board 125.

I love to paint animals and I have a few on my web site too, www.susanjenkins.artspan.com Cows are especially fun. This one is tiny and I used a smaller brush for her. I wanted a bit more detail.

White Rooster

5x7 oil on board 125.

It is a beautiful day and I started painting as soon as it was light! Roosters are fun to paint and being up so early it seemed appropriate!!

Pear Still life

8x10 oil on board SOLD

I love the grey in the background of this painting.It works nicely with the soft yellows. Soft shadows. I painted this with a lower light because I didn't want the shadows to be as intense. Sort of a Chardin look, Ha, I wish!!

Running Free

8x10 detail oil on canvas

Vegetable Stil life

16x20 oil on canvas 1st of 4 to be painted for Tancredi & Morgen in Carmel.

Tomato Still life

16x20 oil on canvas 2nd still life of 4 that I am painting for Tancredi & Morgen.

Sun Flower

5x7 oil on board 125.

Pizza

5x6 oil on board 125.

This was fun. Was warming up to paint this morning and thought it would be fun to paint a piece of pizza, so I did! A morning painting after all!!

Vegetable Paintings

Have I said how much I LOVE to paint vedgetables?? Well, I do. I think they are lovely. Something so wonderful from the earth. I love the way they look, the smell and taste but mostly the gorgeous array of colors they come in.
To paint vedgetables and see the true color of a beet for example I spray them lightly with water. It brings out the color and also gives highlights more clearly.
When they are under the lamp they can change color so you must paint a bit more quickly. Under a spot they can cook at some point!! Stewed tomattoes!
Speaking of tomatoes, that is my still life subject for tomorrow. I will sketch that in this after noon.

See you then! XO

Pomegranate

8x10 oil on board SOLD

After the cupcake painting I felt I had to regain my credibility! Smaller brushes here. #2 and #4 bristle filberts.

Chocolate Cupcake

5x7 oil on board

Red Grapes

5x7 oil on board 125.

I did paint this with a size 4 bristle this morning. Wanted a bit more contol. Still loose tho. They got very hot under the spot light and started to change color so I had to work fast!!

1950 Chevy Truck

5x7 oil on board SOLD

Andrea called this morning and said " why don't you paint a truck?" A truck?? Ok, sounds fun! It was! Thanks Andrea!! XO

Small Still life Floral

5x7 oil painting on board

New light yay!!!

New Still Life Oil Painting on later today, hopefully.

This morning my light stand fell over when I was arranging a new still life! Kablooy! It is just as well really, I have had it for ever and it had a short in the plug and would go on and off on a whim. Not good when you are concentrating on a paticular area or any area for that matter!

The lighting is so important and in recent weeks it would no longer take a 100 watt "spot" which is what I have always used. So I have been painting in what I consider low light. Those of you who have been to my studio know that sometimes I refer to it as "the cave", hahaha. Not much light in there.I really like strong darks and lights. You get a sort of moody look to your work in low light which is nice that also comes with the gray backgrounds I have been using which I really love! Who knows, maybe Iwill go back to the lower wattage or maybe get my glasses strenghtened!

I t was actually an accident waiting to happen and not the safest of lights. So as I said it is a good thing. Living where I do, out in the hinterlands I must take a trip to the city to get a new stand and a couple of spot lights. I will try to get a new painting up this after noon so I can get in some painting time in today.

Until then!! XO Susan

Red Onion Still life Painting

5x7 oil on board 125.

Tiny Vase in blue and white

5x7 oil on board SOLD

If you look closely you will see a tiny little gnat on the little bud! The photo was taken out side,how appropiate!! The tiny vase belonged to Gayle at Chambers gallery. Perfect for little bouquets!!

Inspiration

For those of you that are decorating your homes and looking for wonderful new ideas I wanted to share this magazine with you. I love the website and I take the magazine. Domino Magazine is full of wonderful information. Alot of energy. New paint color , upholstery fabric, current trends. Being a painter I love the "current trends" part. I love the blogs too. They are fun and inspiring and full of information. I especially love the blog, Absolutely Beautiful Things, http://www.absolutelybeautifulthings.blogspot.com/, she loves pink as do I. So much color!

Whether you are an artist and or decorating your home or just want to be inspired check it out!

XO Susan

Wonderful Review

I was so pleased to see a review of my work from www.emptyeasel.com. It was written by Dan. He called my work delicious! How fun!! It is shown under "reviews".

Thankyou Dan!

Sue's Strawberry Jam

5x7 oil on board SOLD

When I go to Washington, Arts Desire, to teach workshops I meet with my friend Susan Lischka in Sacramento and we fly out together. She always has a jar of her wonderful jam for me. This is of course the strawberry and in September when we go again I am looking forward to more!!

New Painting Tuesday

Tomorrow I am at Chambers Gallery all day and Monday a visit to Tancredi & Morgen in Carmel to drop off some new paintings. I will be painting Tuesday Morning and add the new painting then.

Until Tuesday morning!!

pear

5x7 oil on board 125. SOLD

Green vase

9x12 oil on board 325.

Joe's Diner

9x12 oil on board 325.

Small Jars

5x7 oil on board SOLD

Robin's Flowers

9x12 oil on board

This painting was done in the workshop I taught yesterday at Robin's studio. We all had fun and all the paintings done by everyone were lovely. This was one of my paintings for the day so thought I would share this for todays painting. Little jars tomorrow.

New Painting Tuesday

I will have a new painting up tomorrow. Teaching an art class today.

I have some very tiny jars and I want to paint very tiny florals in them. This should be very fun! Especially with a size 8 bristle!

I will tackle that in the morning!

Have a wonderful day!

Roses and Berry's

8x10 oil on board.

Waiting for the big wave

9x12 oil on canvas SOLD

a day at the beach

8x10 oil on canvas

Tea Time

5x7 oil on board

Blue Willow cup

5x7 oil on board Hi Annette! 125.

limes

5x6 oil on board

No paintings Sunday

I won't be posting a painting tomorrow. Monday I will be going on Holiday for a week. I will resume painting the following Monday. Thankyou for viewing Morning Paintings! See you in a week!
XO Susan

Fish

5x6 oil on board detail 125.

Red Rose Bud

5x7 oil on board 125.

sunny bouquet

9x12 oil on board

ROSE BUD

5x7 oil on board Wednesday painting SOLD

small bouquet

Tuesday painting

9x12 oil on board

Roses in yellow bowl

9x12 oil on board

Cambria Flowers

Saturday painting 9x12 oil on board

No paintings Sunday

Be back at my easel on Monday morning, have a couple of new ideas. I have gotten on to this idea of "pink" in the paintings. Ever since doing the pink cup! That was fun.There is a beautiful pink rose in the garden I may paint that. Perhaps berries would be nice too.

lemons on a white plate

lemons on a white plate 8x10 oil on board 275. SOLD

espresso

5x7 oil on board / SOLD

radish

Don't you just love the red of a radish? 5x7 oil on board 125.

olives 5x6

This is this mornings painting. Olives are beautiful! 5x6 oil on board 125

Pink Cup

Today's morning painting is pink cup. 51/2"x8" oil on board 175.