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Presents!

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Lots of family and friends requested paintings as gifts this year.   I guess that saves me money, but it's hard to know what to paint for them.  Hopefully I did an ok job :)  And now that Christmas is over I can post them here! 

Oil on panel, 8x10 inches 

Oil on panel, 6x6 inches

Oil on canvas, 6x6 inches 

Oil on panel, 5x7 inches

Oil on canvas, 6x6 inches 

Oil on panel, 6x6 inches 
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Santa Barbara Harbor X - 6x6

Still raining here!  So this might be my last post till after Christmas.  Merry Christmas everyone! 

Oil on panel, 6x6 inches
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Bluff Tree at Sunrise - 6x6

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It's been raining here since Friday, pretty much nonstop, our back patio is a kind of a pond now.  I love the rain, but now it's getting in the way, I have several new paintings that I need to photograph, definitely can't do that when it's pouring! 

I love this little painting though, did it back when the sun existed :) I'll be working on a larger version of it today.  
Oil on panel, 6x6 inches
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Tomato Love - Still life oil painting - 5x5

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This is a painting that sold at the craft fair I did a few weeks ago, I forgot that I never even posted it here.  I don't really consider it "serious" art,  I liked the colors together, and it's just fun....and that's ok. 

Oil on panel, 5x5 inches 
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Carpinteria Avenue Trees - 8x8

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There's something so wonderful about these trees, this is my second try at capturing them in paint. I'm much happier with this attempt. I approached it differently than I normally do, I started with what I can only call a "fuzzy" underpainting. Sometimes I don't work with an underpainting at all, and other times it's completely necessary, and I can't really explain why...this is why I'm not a...

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