Chocolate Old Fashioned

These little guys are so pretty. They flower in the fryer when they are plopped down. This one has perfectly placed chocolate frosting, yum!

Daily Painting #3

Chocolate Old Fashioned, acrylic on canvas, 9x12

$160 + $10 S&H

Sprinkle Cake

Whoe doesn't like a sprinkle cake? They are simple, delicious, and perk you right up. They're also quite beautiful. Sometimes I decorate them with half one color, and half rainbow. This one I chose to be simple and straightforward.

Daily Painting #2

Sprinkle Cake, 9x12, Acrylic on canvas
$160 + $10 S&H

Buttermilk Bar

I've decided for the first 7 paintings I am doing doughnuts/sweets (since I work at a doughnut shop, why not paint what I know?). I'm really excited to make sexy little paintings of boring little objects! (And for anyone who has known me...at all...I adore sweets and like to paint them, though I never really paint them from life, so this will be an exercise in remembering what REAL sweets are like, and not just my imagined over exaggeration of them).

This lil' guy is a buttermilk bar. They smell oh so delicious while they are mixing in the mixer and when they are fresh from the fryer. I've never had one, I'm vegan and all, but they sure smell good and are adorable.

Daily Painting #1

Buttermilk Bar, Acrylic on canvas, 9x12

$160 + $10 S&H

The Daily Painting that inspired them all!

Hello, friends! Thank you for your interest in my 30 Day Daily Painting project! I will be formally beginning the project Friday, May 29th. I will be selling each 9x12 piece for $160. Please stay tuned as the date draws nearer!

But for now, some backstory:

A friend gave me a lilac, and I couldn't sleep, so I decided to paint it that night. The finished painting is 20x16, and took around 3 hours to fully complete. I'm really happy with it, and it inspired me to continue with flower paintings. The rest took over a day to complete, but here is a run down of my favorites:

Wilty Dogwood, 24x18

 Fluffy Flower (Plant ID is not my strong-suit), 20x16

Lily of the Valley, 20x30

Dogwood Blossoms, 18x24

Tree Leaves (?), 24x24

I've been into painting/drawing/sketching/inventing plants for some time now. I've shown plant drawings/paintings at various galleries around Portland. But these are the most developed, true-to-plant paintings to-date. Here are some samples of plants I've drawn/invented over the past 18 months:

As you can see, the paintings are much more developed. I look forward to continuing to paint from life, plants as well as general still life. Here is a doughnut I painted for Voodoo Doughnut, Taiwan. It's a Voodoo Doll doughnut they are famous for:

This piece is 9x12 on panel, and only took a few hours to complete. It definitely cracks me up anytime I look at it. So goofy!

Anyway! Until then,

Take care!

Jessica