Sunday, November 7, 2010

Red Bell Peppers



I rummaged around in the refrigerator and found these bell peppers to paint. I was working on painting various values and colors in the reds.  I think I have made some progress, but I will work on this some more.

I was the first person up in my household this morning.  My body didn't know about daylight savings time. I wandered into the kitchen and made a loaf of orange-cranberry bread. It made the house smell great, and was good with our morning coffee.

18 comments:

  1. Virginia---I hope you don't mean you're going to work more on that painting! It's really nice: great volume on the bell peppers and I love the overall glow of the painting! It's a beauty!

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  2. Hi Lorraine. Nope, this painting is done, but I just need to work on painting reds. And thanks! I've noticed that I like bright paintings.

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  3. Beautiful work Virginia! I think you've done a great job of having a variety of values and reds here. Orange cranberry bread!! Yummmy!

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  4. Nice peppers Virgina. I really like your warm Tuscan colour palette. Thanks for visiting and for your good wishes.

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  5. Nice work on these peppers! Good job with the values.

    Orange cranberry bread sounds great!! Yum!

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  6. Vous me mettez en appétit ma chère Virginia et je viendrais bien me joindre à vous pour le petit déjeuner !
    Vos poivrons sont merveilleusement bien réalisés... Ils explosent en couleur. Le contraste avec le fond jaune apporte de la force à votre sujet. Bises

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  7. The peppers look nice and bumpy like peppers do. So which do you think is more difficult to work with - red or yellow?
    The bread sounds delicious. I like orange rolls, but I haven't had orange-cranberry.

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  8. You shop for still life subjects like I do, straight out of the fridge...lovely painting!
    p.s. I'm available for coffee any time. :)

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  9. Caladh, I still think yellows are more difficult, at least for me. I end up making the shadows look muddy. Need more practice!

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  10. Dana, wouldn't that be fun! I've often thought I'd like to meed many of the painters whose work I admire!

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  11. So festive! Great color combo! Sometimes the best still life comes straight out of the fridge:) You can send some of your orange-cranberry bread right on over, sounds yummy!:)

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  12. Thanks for your kind words, much appreciated.
    Your still lifes are coming along great!

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  13. Very nice Virginia! Like the yellow background with the red peppers. I also really like the pear that is posted today on fresh painters.

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  14. You'r bell pepper looks great Virginia.It looks great with great values....
    how are you ?.....

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  15. Thank you, Carol. That pear is an older painting that I hadn't posted to Fresh Paint. Everything so far this week has been a wiper!

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  16. Anu, thanks for visiting! I've been well. My painting this week seems to be going backwards, though, instead of getting better.

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  17. I am biking to the store in a minute to buy some of these for our dinner...Lovely painting!

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  18. Virgina
    Thanks for all the nice comments that you leave on my blog - I really do appreciate it - it keeps me going. Thanks - Keep up your good work
    Regards
    Robin J Mitchell
    robinjmitchell.blogspot.com/

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