Old Ray Bans, Oil on Board, 5ins x 7ins

Actually I have to admit these aren't really genuine Ray Bans but rather some Ray Ban style sunglasses I bought quite cheap some years ago. But then Rene Magritte didn't paint pipes so they can be "real" Ray Bans if I say they are. This is art and all things are possible in art, the Sun might even come out. :) This painting is 5ins x 7ins and painted oil on board (Masonite). The glasses are a little bit larger than life in the painting, which makes the sunglasses look a bit like they belong to a god or godess. Of course this doesn't come over in the photographs because unlike original paintings, photographs have no scale, so tend to work differently than paintings.

Left Over Parts. Oil on Board, 2.5ins x 3.5ins

I bought three flat pack cupboards from Lidl the other month. Actually I bought them and constructed them over the course of a number of days, mainly because I could only strap one at a time to my bicycle. When I was finished there were these two screws left over. This means statistically I got 2/3 = 0.666 of a spare screw in each pack, this is of course a human number being due to human error, but better to have too many parts since it would be a beast to have too few. Well these screws were left laying on my windowsill for some time so I thought I may as well paint them. :)

Glass of Water 6ins x 4ins Oil on Board

I think this glass originally came in a set of 6 which my parents bought some time in the 1970s. I believe it may be the last one left. This is my favourite glass at the moment. I normally drink red grape juice in it, but thought it would look good as a glass of water for a painting. Actually I have loads of glasses because I used to collect Nutella chocolate spread jars. But it got to the point when I had more glasses than a small pub and had to find people I could give them away to :)

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Cardiff Morning 4ins x 6ins oil on board.

I've never been much of an early riser, sometimes I have problems sleeping but I do enjoy working until like 4 in the morning. Maybe I should have called this blog" A Painting a Night". This painting was the result of still being awake at about 6 the other morning and looking out the window on this wondrous sunrise. I managed to snap a picture and then went to bed for a few hours with this scene impressed on my mind and wondered where the people in the aeroplanes might be going and considering whether putting vapour trails into a painting is a good idea what with the whole chem trails thing and whether I should include an ET flying saucer, but I dare say they have more sense than to be up at such an unearthly time in morning :)

This painting is 4ins x 6ins and painted oil on board.

The Price of Protection

This was a display in the window of one of the Local Army and Navy stores, which I thought would make an interesting painting. It's painted 6ins x 4ins oil on board.

Avocado

This is the avocado I bought to paint last week. I'd never bought an avocado before, well I suppose I must have had it in things in the past, but I didn't know what to expect. It was more brown by the time I cut it open and the inside was soft smooth and buttery. Not a lot of taste on it's own so I opened a tin of Sardines and ate the sardines along with the avocado contents cut into slices. This combination was quite nice. Apparently some people eat them with Soy sauce and they seem to be nice with something a bit salty. I might buy one again I dare say there are various ways of eating an Avocado.

This painting is 4ins x 6ins and is painted oil on board.

Now available as a Greetings Card through Cafepress. Click in card picture or the link below.
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Peach Halves

This is what I did to one of those peaches before eating it, it was very tasty to :) This painting is 4ins x 6ins and is painted oil on gessoed board.

This week I bought something which I think was called an Exotic Susan Fruit which looks like a sort of yellow tomato but with a larger stem star than a tomato. I don't think I have seen one these before and can't find it on the Internet. It's probably one of these fruits that has different names depending on the part of the World one is from. Anyway I shall probably do a painting of it this week and then eat it.

Peaches

When I did my weekly shopping last week I decided to buy some fruit to paint so I bought two peaches and an Avocado pear, that almost sounds like a Christmas song. :) These are the two peaches I bought, I have since eaten them, but here they are immortalised in paint. This painting is 4ins x 6ins and is painted oil on gessoed board.

New CafePress Shop

I was going to do some painting today and might still do a bit before bedtime. However I decided that I could put some of these paintings I'm doing on a variety of products on Cafepress. So made a start with the "Spring in the Woods" painting which I put up the other day. So an image of this painting is now available on variety of products including prints, mugs, greetings cards, calanders, badges, fridge magnets and even a mouse mat. :) The new shop is at
http://www.cafepress.com/springinwoods

Vintage Camera (1957 Mk IV Ihagee Exa)

I seem to have a bit of a passion for old Cameras. I bought this 1957 Mk IV Ihagee Exa on eBay intending to resell it on another antiques and collectables site. But I just fell in love with it and couldn't bring myself to part with it. So I thought it would do a painting of it instead :) I can sort of imagine the artist Edward Hopper having a camera like this so I kind of painted it a Hopper like style imagining it sitting on a hotel table. The painting is 4ins x 6ins and is painted oil on board.

A badge design based on this painting is now available on Cafepress at: http://www.cafepress.com/exacamera