Pears Go Together With Apple

Pears Go Together  With Apple, Acrylic 6x8 Inch Canvas Hardboard

I enjoyed this little painting as it has a nice combination of earth tones and bright color.  This concludes the series of still life settings on the small format of 6x8.  At least for now, as I want to do more still life paintings on larger canvases similar to the scene with the lamp and fruit: "Fruit Under Lamplight" that I did last month.  It is posted on the blog also.  Maybe I can sell it at the show in El Campo this weekend.  I think it would really look good in Mama's kitchen, what do you think?

I hope you like the painting.  Email me if you would like to purchase.  It is easy to do through PayPal.  You don't have to have a PayPal acount to use your credit card for a secure purchase.

Let us pray before we paint,
Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Fruit Under The Lamplight, Original Painting

Fruit Under The Lamplight, 20x16  Original Acrylic Painting

Fruit Under The Lamplight a 20x16 painting done in acrylics. The inspiration for this painting is from the Bible verse Galatians 5:22 "...The Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace..." and the lamp represents God's light.  This is a 20x16 on a gallery wrapped canvas.  The edges are painted for hanging without a frame.  This painting would make be great for your fine art collection or as a gift for someone special.


I set up a small area in the studio to shoot still life scenes to paint from.  I went to the market and bought fruit, scrounged around the house for a platter, and cleaned up the heirloom kerosene lamp and took lots of photos of various singles, doubles, combos, and magnum arrangements  of fruit and the lamp.  It felt  good to plan a scene, set it up, and make it happen.  It was also humbling in that it is like going to the candy store and picking out more than you can eat.  I chose the biggest and most diverse of the scenes which really taxed my painting abilities and it took me much longer than anticipated to finish it.   On the bright side, I learned more color mixing tricks and how to paint clear glass objects.  Challenges are a painters best teacher.  Hope you like the story and the painting.

Let us pray before we paint,

Jimmie

Pelican on the Waterway

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I finished Pelican on the Waterway today.  It is acrylic 20x16 on a stretched gallery canvas with the edges painted black.  I feel real good about this one.  We took pictures of these fellows last November at the Matagorda, Texas harbour on the inland waterway.  This was another scene I knew I would get on canvas someday.  Eleven months later, here he is.   I could never get all the detail of his plumage like it is in the photo, just tried to make it reasonably close.  Same with the rocks and the nice bit of flowers that he was behind.  The light and shadow is strong in this painting as it was mid day when we took the pictures.  I hope you like this big bird.  I really enjoyed painting him.

Let us pray before we paint,

jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Lemons Go With Blue

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"Lemons Go With Blue" is an orginal acrylic painting I did yesterday on a 8x6 inch archival canvas.  I really enjoy playing with primary colors especially when contrasted against darker earth tones.  This painting also utilizes strong brights and deep shadow to make it pop.  Hope you like it. 

Isn't it great that the Chilean miners have been rescued!  What a miracle.

Let us pray before we paint,
Jimmie
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Guarding the Nest

Another freestyle painting, no photo, no sketch, just brush it in.  Guarding the Nest is in acrylics on a 8x6 archival canvas panel.  The painting is protected by a clear satin finish top coat.  

The inspiration for this painting is from watching our Red Birds in our yard and observing their habits.  They are a family oriented bird and are very close to each other.  The male is the bright red while the female is not a brilliant in color.  If you see the female on the nest or near by, you can rest assured that the male bird is within several yards hidden in the trees or brush watching over his mate.  We have watched the males feed the female bird many times.  They also have a very pretty song and sharp schrips to call each other with.  They like to build their nest in our brushy foliage in the front flower bed.  They are quite skiddish, especially when we have the camera out.  LOL  We have really enjoyed watching them.  I hope you enjoy the painting and this little tid bit of news about our red birds.

Let us pray before we paint,

jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Lighthouse Series, Winter

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Another little lighthouse painting done freestyle: no photo, no sketch, just brush it on.  This one is an acrylic alla prima on a 8x6 inch archival canvas hardboard.  I like doing these small seascapes to experiement with color and depth of the compositions.   Contact me if you would like to purchase a giclee print of this light house.  See more light house paintings.

Let us pray before we paint,

Jimmie

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Little House on the Creek, Original Acrylic on 8x10

This is another free thought and freehand painting.  I like to do these with a bit of folk art blend.  Peaceful and no barriers.  Just the paint, a little music and me.  This is on an 8x10 canvas and is mounted on one of our floater frames that is also made in our studio shop.  This photo of the framed painting turned out a bit brighter than actual.  Also, the colors seen on different monitors may vary a little from the actual painting.  I hope you enjoy the painting.

Let us pray before we paint,

Jimmie

Little Texas Barn

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This is my first acrylic painting for the year.  Little Texas Barn is a small format alla prima painting of an imaginary field of blue bonnets leading the view up to the barn and windmill.  This is a free hand piece brushed directly on the canvas. No photo or sketch used.  The canvas is a 8x6 inch on archievel hardboard mount.  I used the portrait layout to give the idea of distance for the landscape.

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Jimmie

Blue Heron Taking Flight, Original Painting 11x14

This great blue heron is about to take flight in the Matagorda, Texas wet lands next to the Colorado River.  He was well over 100 yards away when I took a chance photoshot and got lucky enough to hit the target.  His image came out fuzzy and very small on the photo.  I enlarged the image and increased the contrast enough to paint from.  This painting was a real drill in painting the light and shadows to create the shapes and make him look realistic and a lot different than a fuzzy spec on a photograph.  There are pros and cons among artists about using photographs to paint from, but I could never have painted this fantastic scene without a camera and also a whole lot of luck.  Taking Flight is on a11x14 stretched canvas.

Let us pray before we paint,

Jimmie

Texas Longhorn in Bluebonnet Field, Original Oil 12x18 Inch Canvas

 This is an original oil painting on a gallery stretched canvas.  I painted a portrait version of this longhorn a few months ago and was wondering what it would have looked like if I had done it in a landscape with bluebonnets.  Since the other painting sold, I figured that was enough incentive to paint him again in the landscape setting.  I used both palette knife and brush to do the painting. I enjoyed painting him.  I hope you like the way it came out.
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jimmie@jimmiesart.com