Work and Rest - Images For New Paintings

It is still Sunday here...in 30 minutes it will be Monday.   Sunday is usually my day of rest from painting and most other things as well, but I cooked several recipes (well, 3 recipes)  for enough food to last awhile so I will be pretty free to paint the next few days.  One recipe was homemade chicken soup some of which I will freeze for later.  Yes, cooking is creative too !   Yesterday I began two new paintings and hopefully they will be dry enough to work on again tomorrow morning.   Below are my reference photos for those new works.

Bee having a blast in a cereus cactus flower

Lesser  Flamingos

The photo of the Lesser Flamingos (which are native to Africa and Asia) I captured at the Honolulu Zoo.  I may paint it soon, but it is not the reference for the painting I began yesterday; the computer gave me a hard time uploading the correct photo.   The more I think about it now,  this might be a better painting than the one I began on Saturday    :-)

There are 4 other paintings I have begun that are in various stages of development  that I will also be concentrating on in between waiting for current works to dry before continuing them.   I just felt the urge to do some wildlife again .

Wish me happy painting the rest of the week !

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Fall Harvest (Persimmons)

"Fall Harvest"

6" x 6" Oil on canvas

$300

Persimmon time again !   I intend to paint more persimmons soon, but feel the need to work on some larger, major works for the most part right now.   I will continue to paint miniatures now and then as well.   

Mahalo for visiting with me today !

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Studio : POB 22246

             Honolulu, HI 96823-2246

Free Print With Purchase Of Original Painting

5" x 7" Print

Adobe 1 With  Chickens

5" x 7" Print

Adobe 2 With Donkey

5" x 7" Print

Adobes 3 With Horse and Rider

5" x 7" Print

Adobe 4 With Geese

The above photographic prints were done by a professional ...not me,  :-)   ...  During this month of November, if you purchase one of my original paintings found on this blog, you will receive free the print of your choice as shown above.   If you purchase two original paintings, you may receive two free prints of your choice, and so on.    My supply of these prints is limited, so please make your choice and purchase your painting(s) soon !  The prints will need to be matted and framed under glass. They are perfect for an 8" x 10" frame. I will ship the print(s) flat and not matted to you along with your original painting purchase.   Shipping is free on the miniature paintings !   Any painting  12" x 16" or larger I will charge the shipping rate of the USPO or on International rates the same unless I need to ship FED EX or UPS.

The original paintings from which these prints were made were painted when I lived in Arizona.  I am still in love with the Southwestern USA and hope to make a trip back there before too long.  

Thank you for visiting with me today !

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Studio: P.O. Box 22246

Honolulu, Hawaii 96823-2246

Somewhere - Spring Flowers In Landscape

"Somewhere - Spring Flowers

5" x 7" Oil on panel

$225

I just felt the need for a change of pace so I have been working on two miniature landscapes lately.  This one is finished and is painted on museum quality Raymar canvas panel.  The blue flowers are not that bright in the original painting; close, but not exactly right. I photographed this image outside.   Below is a work in progress I am hopefully going to finish this evening.

Work in progress

5" x 7" Oil on panel 

Those will be 3 cows laying down in the foreground; unless I decide to put more cows in the distance, this is pretty much how the painting will be when finished.    I need to enrich the color a bit more and work on the foreground trees and so on.  

Please check back tomorrow for the finished landscape with the cows.  I appreciate your interest !

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Tomato And Mayonnaise Sandwich Half

 

"Tomato And Mayonnaise Sandwich Half"

8" x 8" Oil on canvas

$375

I put finishing touches on this painting early this morning, but mostly completed it last night.   What a fun painting !   I also worked on the other tomato sandwich painting, but it has a ways to go yet to be finished.

In the above work, some of those black "dots" in the mayonnaise are black pepper specks.  I love to eat tomato sandwiches !  Below are some photos of different stages of this painting.

Work in progress

Very rough initial color lay-in

In progress

 Second stage

You can easily see how I change things a bit as I go;  in a way that is more creative than painstakingly drawing a detailed sketch on canvas and then "coloring" it.    With other mediums, like watercolor, one might have to by necessity make a detailed drawing first on paper; these photos of mine just show the way I personally like to work.   Everyone has their own method that works best for them, and that is as it should be.   

Please feel free to comment here or send me an email at reynoldsrenditions@gmail.com if interested in purchasing "Tomato And Mayonnaise Sandwich Half" or any other original of mine.  Thank you for your interest and for visiting my blog !

Lemonade, Persimmons, and Chinatown

5" x 7" Oil on panel

In Progress

I reworked this in oil today; it was a painting I completed first in January of this year in acrylics.  I was just not happy with the acrylic version, so worked over it in oils.   Below is the previous acrylic version.

Tomorrow will be decision day: is the oil version finished or does it need more refining, etc.  I also worked on the persimmon painting today.   It does not look like I did much to it (shown below) but I really did. 

Work in progress

6" x 6" Oil on canvas

Just for fun and to share with you, today I photographed some persimmons and other produce in the Chinatown section of Honolulu.   I thought you might find it interesting; the prices as well as the local vendors, so please scroll down to view.   

I have toyed with the idea of painting some people-filled Chinatown scenes and the produce and local vendors.    I took several other photos there as well and some just might make good paintings.  

I have had some appointments the last two days so have not been able to paint as much as usual.  The next few days I will live, eat, and breathe painting continuously so please return often to my blog for more new work.   

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It Came From Barnes And Noble

"Barnes and Noble Mug"

6" x 8" Oil on panel 

I fell in love with this mug from the bookstore Barnes and Noble and bought a set of 4 about 3 years ago.  One has since left this life due to a breakage, and I have never seen this particular mug in that store again.   Anyway, just completed this oil painting in the wee hours this morning.  I have been working on 5 paintings at once, as I have to wait for one to dry before I can proceed with more work on it and therefore I work on another painting while I wait.... and so on.   Below is the corrected and completed painting I posted here this past Sunday.

"Seeing Red"

6" x 8" Oil on panel

Both of the above paintings are available for your collection and will be shipped after 10 days to allow plenty of time for the oil paint to dry before packaging it for shipment.   Contact me at reynoldsrenditions@gmail.com for purchase information.     

Below is another WIP I will work on later today.   Those are persimmons and grapes on the plate; I plan to make the grapes more of a dark blue color, but we shall see what happens as I fling the paint around !

6" x 6" oil on canvas - work in progress

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