This Will Be My Last Sushi Painting For A While.

6" x 6" - oil on canvas
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Famous last words. No, really. I think I've managed to get them out of my system for now. We all have our proclivities. I like to examine subjects in painted form over and over again until I'm having nightmares about them. Well, the nightmares have arrived. So I'm switching to Fall leaves and antique German coffee grinders, courtesy of my neighbors.
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Sushi Bar Study

6" x 6" oil on canvas

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My favorite sushi bar. The atmosphere is almost more enticing than the food itself, and the food is pretty tasty.

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Sushi

"Sushi" - oil on canvas - 6" x 6"
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This has been a constant food craving over the Summer months - clean, cool food with lots of wasabi, and iced green tea on the side. Today is the 2nd day of cool weather - although we are expected to get back into the 80's over the next week, which I can deal with - and I'm tempted to say we are officially in Fall mode, but I don't want to jinx it. Despite my months-long adoration of all things raw fish, all I can think about eating right now is pot roast and potato soup. With bacon. And chives. Go figure. It doesn't take the body long to catch up with the climate, does it?
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Speaking of which, is it just me, or does anyone else want to nod off at around 8pm, snuggled under a blanket on the couch with a cup of tea, or a glass of wine, watching movies? Large, hot meals and early bedtimes. I suppose if it jumps back up to 104F before all is said and done, I'll be longing for cool showers and gazpacho. Who am I kidding?!?! I'll be longing for a brick wall to bash my brains against.

Chrome Teapot Study #2

Chrome Teapot Study #2 - 8" x 6" - oil on canvas

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Another large scale gallery painting underway and another study of the chrome teapot. I needed to see how this would look in neutral tones. It's my habit to always go for stronger contrast, but there was something calming about the color of my walls behind the teapot when I was taking photos the other week. Behr brand "Jasmine White" in case anyone was interested.
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I think I'm in the mood for neutrals right now as my little desert home is making the transition from Summer to Fall. Of course that transition is marked by hissy fits and pouting, because just this weekend it was 104F again. Meanwhile, the rest of the Northern Hemisphere is pulling out its long sleeves and getting frost advisories. What? Me, bitter? No. Not at all. But last night it got down to 72F and the wind didn't feel like a hairdryer. For Las Vegas, that's progress.
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Chrome Teapot Study

Chrome Teapot Study - 6" x 6" - oil on canvas
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I'm working on another larger teapot painting and needed to brush up my skills with chrome objects. Chrome picks up a lot of color and light that copper will overpower and alter. So painting chrome is always a different experience, more complicated I think. In this painting alone, a simple study, aside from the gray tones of the pot itself, I have sienna, blue, turquoise, lavender, green, orange and yellow. Quite the rainbow.

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Coppers

"Coppers" - 11" x 14" - oil on canvas

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Here is the final painting for which "Anne's Kettle" was a study. I'm very happy with the background I chose. I'm very happy with the painting overall. I feel comforted by it. I always feel comforted by copper ware. It's the warm glow. While the teapot comes from my neighbor, Anne, the platter and cream dispenser come from my mother-in-law, Helen. She also graciously donated to the creation of this most satisfying painting experience. Thank you, Helen and Anne!
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This painting is currently under review by Banks Fine Art in Dallas, TX. If you wish to inquire about purchasing it, you may contact Maloree Banks directly.

Anne's Kettle

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6" x 6" - oil on canvas
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My neighbor, Anne, has amassed a very large collection of copper ware from her travels abroad. Wow, doesn't that sentence sound smug???? Ha! Anyway, Anne's kettle. I borrowed this one with it's leather wrapped arched handle because it was so impressive. I've never seen anything like it.
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I'm doing a painting for the gallery I work with in Dallas - kettle, platter, sugar jar, all copper. It's been a few months since my last attempt at copper, and a study was in order. I cropped a small section of the photo I'm using as reference and whipped this little beauty up today. Specifically, I wanted to be certain I was comfortable with a pale blue background before I committed to it at a larger scale. That was the hard part. The copper kettle, any metallic object for that matter, is the easy part. I can safely say that I am comfortable. That blue makes the copper body and brass lid/spout really pop. Gives it a whole new life.
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