The Duel II

Hello! I was flipping through an old sketchbook when I came across the concept drawings for an installation piece I had forgotten about. I had set up 15 candles in jars below 15 bags of water that hung above them with water plants growing in each bag. For the action part of the piece I poked holes in each bag and sat down while we all watched the water fill up and extinguish the flames of the candles below. The water plants wilted and sagged because they were then without water.

The piece developed from a haiku I had written some years before after being disappointed by a wonderful person I had fallen for:

Perseverant drip
Such liquidated lost love
Unchecked, drowns the soul

Deep, I know.
Highly personal, I know.

Thanks for looking!

"The Duel II"

36x24

Acrylic on canvas.

Off with Their Heads!

About a week ago I woke, in the middle of the night, with the idea for this next painting. I had a very crisp vision of a vase of stems, with their heads chopped off and upside down surrounding the vase.

Meet,

Cut Flowers (Off with Their Heads!)

Acrylic on Canvas, 30x24

Kale Again

Heh...so...I'm pretty into Kale right now.


Daily Painting #14

Garden Kale, acrylic on canvas panel, 9x12

$160 + $10 S&H

Brussels Sprouts

So...I had an amazing professor in art school who said YOU NEED MORE TEMPERATURE SHIFTS, ALL OF YOU, IN YOUR PAINTINGS!!!!!!

Blah blah blah...What she meant was any good painting respects chroma, and how some colors are warmer than others, and to make something appear 3dimensional we had to respect that and mimick that (as best we could) in our paintings.

So, naturally, I completely ignored her and kept painting like I WANTED to. Heh.

However, her words haunt, and I actually heeded her advice in this painting. Most of this painting was painted with warm colors: Buff Titanium, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red....You get 'the picture (snicker). BUT...it was boring. SO SO BORING. So....I added some cool colors to the highlights, because, lo and behold!, there are cool colors in hightlights oftentimes. So...I mixed up some Hansa Yellow, Pthalo Green, and Alizarin Crimson (to desaturate). BOOM. So much more convincing.

THAT ASIDE...

Daily Painting #12

Brussels Sprouts, acrylic on canvas panel, 9x12

$160 + $10 S&H

Pea Pods

Here's an early, tiny one! I'm headed to a day at the beach, so my time was limited. My awesome coworker, Marty, gave me some snap peas from his garden, so I decided to paint them.


Daily Painting #10

Peas, acrylic on masonite board, 4x4

$50 + $10 S&H

My Cat, Rosie

Soo...I've always wanted a cute painting of my cock-eyed kitty, Rosie. So...I went for it!

Here she is, in all her winking, cock-eyed glory.

Daily Painting #8

Rosie, acrylic on canvas, 9x12

NFS

(Cream)Puff Daddy

Ah, so cute! This one is literally the size of the foil square it was sitting on when they served it to me.
I will admit, working this small is annoying. However, it is EXACTLY the same size as the actual puff, so that's kinda adorable. And makes my roommates do a double take when they walk past it ;)

(Daylight)

(Studio Light)

Cream Puff, acrylic on masonite, 4x4

$50 + $10 S&H

Home Grown Strawberries!

I live in a large house filled with people, and a couple moved out last year right after planting a GORGEOUS garden. And guess who lucked out with some home grown strawberries? Lucky me!

These were fun to paint...the reflections and shadows on the ceramic plate were quite the challenge.

Daily Painting #6

Home Grown Strawberries, 9x12, acrylic on panel

$160 + $10 S&H

The Morning After (Doughnuts)

So...I painted the stacked doughnuts, and left them out over night (because I am super responsible), and look at the carnage! Drippy, sloppy, saggy, flattened...sweetness. I had a lot of fun with the chocolate, and even more fun with the powdered sugar. I was setting it up on my mantle, and had an irrational fear that I'd smear the powder (it's been dry for a while, so I guess I was just psyched out by the look of it?).

Anyway! Please enjoy,

Daily Painting #5

Gooey Stacked Doughnuts, acrylic on panel, 9x12

$160 + $10 S&H

Stack of Filled Doughnuts

Oh my! This one was fun. I stacked the doughnuts, started painting, and like a blossoming flower, the doughnuts tilted and shifted and completely changed shapes. It was pretty cool. I think I'll paint the flattened, drippy bottom 2 doughnuts tomorrow. The chocolate frosting started to run and pool under the lemon powdered sugar. So gooey!

Daily Painting # 4

Stacked Filled Doughnuts, acrylic on cavnas, 9x12

$160 + $10 S&H

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