Day 7 - 30 Paintings in 30 days - Holiday Radiance

Holiday candles brings about radiance and happiness! I lighted a candle inside this decorative Christmas vase and kept it in dark. It looked so very cheerful, take a look at the final painting as well as work in progress pictures below:

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Holiday Radiance, 5 x 7 inches, Oil on Canvas Panel

 Stage 1:

Holiday Radiance, 5 x 7 inches, STAGE 1

 Stage 2:

Holiday Radiance, 5 x 7 inches, STAGE 2

 Stage 3:

Holiday Radiance, 5 x 7 inches, STAGE 3

Day 6 - 30 Paintings in 30 days - Happy Snowman

Last 5 days I did fruits, and I wanted to change. I had three goals in mind when I started this challenge. The first goal was to finish a painting in one sitting. Second was to start with basic rounded shapes, so I had the fruits. These were done exactly the same way as in Susan Sarback's workshop I attended couple years ago. And so far I have done setups for all these paintings similar to one shown below. Third was to do some small holiday paintings! So here it is - a Happy Snowman:

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Happy Snowman - 5 x 7 inches, Oil on Canvas Panel

 And BTW, this happy snowman was made by my younger daughter in her 5th Grade Holiday project, she is very happy that her project got so much importance!

Happy Snowman Setup

Day 5 - 30 Paintings in 30 days - Apple

Yesterday I had asked what fruit should I paint on blogger as well as facebook. I got quite a few responses - fig, pomogranate, grapes etc. All of these fruits are on my list. In fact I have a pomogranate on the tree in my backyard, hope to paint that plein air! For today's painting, I picked an apple from our neighbor's tree and used that to set up for my painting. At first I thought that it will be too boring to paint, but I actually had lot of fun! Here it is..

Apple - 6 x 6 inches, Oil on Canvas Panel

Code# PK_13_024

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Day 4 - 30 Paintings in 30 days - Banana

This banana is just ripe and will be great for use in making banana bread!
For tomorrow, I have to think of another fruit, what should it be?

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Banana - 6 x 6 inches, Oil on Canvas Panel

Code# PK_13_023
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Day 3 - 30 Paintings in 30 days - Orange

Juicy Orange with its reflection! To make it interesting, in my setup I placed a glass on the cloth and then the Orange. It was fun to paint the reflection. And now I am ready to make Orange juice!

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Orange - 6 x 6 inches, Oil on Canvas Panel

Code# PK_13_022
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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...

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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
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My setup for painting Mango