Day 2 - 30 Paintings in 30 days - Watermelon

Quench your thirst with this juicy watermelon!

We have an "ant attack" at home. So after I set up this still life, I had hard time preventing ants to crawl even nearby the setup.

I am doing a small series of fruits as you might have guessed. Lets see what I can do tomorrow...

All paintings are for sale, contact me for purchasing information on preranap@hotmail.com.

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Watermelon - 6 x 6 inches, Oil on Canvas panel

Code# PK_13_021
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Day 1 - 30 Paintings in 30 days - Mango

As part of 30 paintings in 30 days, this is my first one and starting out with my most favorite fruit - Mango! I decided to do small paintings and from life. So yesterday I tried setting up the first time and painted this today. I will be painting everyday, you can put your email on "Follow my latest Paintings by Email". All paintings are for sale, contact me for purchasing information on preranap@hotmail.com.

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Mango - 6 x 6 inches, Oil on Canvas Panel

Code# PK_13_020
Available here

My setup for painting Mango

Calla Trio

I am teaching one day workshop this Saturday to a group of friends. Painting a Vase with flowers was requested for this painting project. We wanted something simple and identified a photo from Wetcanvas Reference Library that seemed simple to do. So this is how the completed painting will look like:

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Calla Trio - 12x16 inches, Oil on Canvas Panel

 Reference Photo from Wetcanvas Library:

Wild Strawberry Bloom - SOLD

In our backyard there was a very small plant of Strawberry and the gardner cleaned the rest. Between spring and now the whole empty patch is covered with this plant and it even has mini strawberries! Few plants still have such blooms and that inspired me to paint this on one of my mini canvas. This is #3 in the itty bitty series of paintings. It can be displayed on a mini canvas on a small easel or can be used as a christmas ornament!
Let me know how you like it.

Wild Strawberry Blossom - 3x3 inches, oil on canvas

SOLD

Contact me if you would like to have one of these. The other 2 in this series are:

Pansy - 3x3 inches, Oil on Canvas
http://celebrations-ppk.blogspot.com/2013/07/pansy.html



Tulip - Pink or Purple - 3x3 inches, Oil on Canvas
http://celebrations-ppk.blogspot.com/2012/01/tulip-pink-or-purple.html

Best Friends - Lorikeets

Their color inspired me to paint it, and their pose suggests as if they have been "best friends" since long time!

These are a pair of Rainbow Lorikeets are colorful parrots found in Australia, Indonesia... A lot of people have such Lorikeets as pets too. I am not sure if I am ready to have such pets, but I had fun fun fun painting them!

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Best Friends - 8x10 inches, Oil on Canvas Panel

Pansy - SOLD

This is my favorite colored Pansy on a very itty canvas - 3x3 inches. I wanted to try a very small one and found it does take quite an effort to paint even on a small size!
I think the best use of this small painting could be to decorate a small corner, the painting can be kept on a small easel. It will also look beautiful as an Ornament on christmas tree with a green ribbon to hang - perfect for one who likes flowers!

Pansy - 3x3 inches, Oil on gallery wrapped canvas

SOLD

Pansy - 3x3 inches, Side View

Whimsy Hat

Care to try this Whimsical Hat? The photo reference is from one of the weekly challenges on Wetcanvas online artist community. This was very unique and interesting hat and so I had saved it for painting. I change the original picture as per my interpretation i.e I may sometimes crop the original pictue to create an interesting composition or I may change the shapes a bit or change colors as per my liking. In this case slightly cropped and also added some of my own colors, you can compare by looking at the original photo reference also posted below. Also I have 2 different versions of the picture, the first one is taken in daylight and the second one in studio light.

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Whimsy Hat, 11x14 inches Oil on Canvas Panel. Picture taken in daylight

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Whimsy Hat, 11x14 inches Oil on Canvas Panel, Picture taken in studio light

Original Photo Reference: Wetcanvas



Original Photo reference from weekly challenge on Wetcanvas.