Setup

10 x 11,5 cm

There will be three more paintings, about a week apart, from this setup.  Once a painting is complete, I'm not supposed to look at it until all four are done.  The hardest part is to remember not to move anything, including the lamp I often use.  I put the mug on a box, hoping that would be a good sign for me that it's not the one that holds my drink this time.

Rosy Outlook

12,5 x 23 cm

Oreos

17,5 cm square

Eggs

11,5 x 8,5 cm

I like the movie "Finding Forrester".    Forrester (Sean Connery) agreed to teach Jamal (Rob Brown) about writing.  Jamal sat down at the typewriter to write, but just sat.  Forrester asked him what he was doing, and Jamal answered, "I'm just thinking".  Forrester:  "No thinking - that comes later.  You must write your first draft with your heart.  You rewrite with your head.  The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!"
"Sometimes the simple rhythm of typing gets us from page one to page two."

My interpretation, translating it to painting, is that Sean Connery would tell me to paint with my heart.  Then refine (without suffocating what's painted).  The first key to painting is... to paint, not to think.
The simple rhythm of painting gets us from painting one to painting two. 

Amaryllis

15 x 10 cm

Apples and Chestnuts



24 x 17,5 cm *



Tree Seed

aceo

Katakana

cigar box painting
13,5 x 9 cm

Someone's House

10 x 15 cm

Salt Shaker



aceo

 The real thing.  

Nutmeg



18 x 13 cm

 The grater isn't as innocent as it looks.

Pepper Shaker

aceo

It has a "P" on the lid. 
I've been looking for glass salt and pepper shakers for painting, and when I saw this one in the store, it was pretty much what I had in mind.  But it was the only one.  I put salt in it because I need a salt shaker more often than a pepper shaker.
The dangerous thing is that I Googled pepper shaker (only because I live in Germany, where small words are combined into gargantuan words, and I couldn't remember if this was one word or two), and found a beautiful set of pewter and glass shakers from Italy.  Oh oh.

Eggplant

17,5 cm

Für Frau Bensing

Silberlicht (by Gordon)



Wurzeln

Das Schicksal der Menschen ist auf glückliche Augenblicke, aber nicht auf glückliche Zeiten eingerichtet.  Friedrich Nietzsche

Grand Opening

15,5 x 18 cm

Reach For The Stars

10,2 x 23 cm

My Little Cream Puff

15 x 12 cm

Pom Poms

10 x 15 cm

Come Forward

10 x 15 cm

My intention was to paint roses in the basket, but it was more interesting when the gourd came forward..

Squeezed

23 x 13,5 cm