Hostas coming up

pastel
9" x 12"
Pastel on black paper
The hostas come back every year. This year I am leaving the leaf mulch.

Blue glass and pepper

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Oil on RayMar board
6" x 8"
I think I have settled on some textural combinations that I'd like to explore for a while.
Glass, fruit, fabric...or glass, fruit, wood or glass,  fruit, fabric, wood....though at this size it is important to restrict the number of elements in a painting.
I am fighting the urge to go back in and refine things...the shape of the shadow on the right is off...some of the fabric texture to the left isn't parallel...and that light streak  along side the cast shadow on the left is too light....but the gist of it is what I want it to do....save refinements for larger "finished" works?

Apple Still life
Acrylic on canvas board
12" x 9"
I am playing with pattern and texture.

Peppers
8" x 6"
oil on RayMar board

Acorn Squash

Acorn Squash
Pastel 10" x 8.5"
I am not so certain about the   background...the squashiness is there, but the background is distracting. Perhaps do this again.

Horse Skull

Gift from a friend...it is harder and harder to find things like this. It's a "bio-hazard". Sigh.

Sunday drawings

 

A drapery tie-back and curled ribbon. I like the way the tie-back catches the light, though I haven't nailed it yet. The curly ribbon has to be done in color, and the sheen has to be spot on or it won't be recognizable.

Faculty Show Opening Tomorrow

Gourds

Ok . This is truly a one day painting. I will not touch it. Whatever I don't like about it as I live with it, will be corrected in another painting. It certainly helps to draw first...that way the proportion issues aren't as deadly. I don't yet have the urge to do anything to it, though there was a half hour at the end when I was messaging highlights. It is almost like you have to put down the paint, just so you can move it around and make color adjustments. I learned that Veridian green is deadly...a small amount of it will totally take over other colors....somehow when one is glazing , it doesn't feel quite as powerful.
This really is a departure from how I usually paint. But I think a good one.