Pear Re-Do

10 x 20 oil on stretched canvas

I tried to loosen and refresh  this old painting that I have had for years!   I don't even have the reference photo or the pears!   I wish I did.  It's hard to paint without something to go by (it is for me anyway).

Lily Jean

8 x 10 oil on canvas board

Playing around with old canvases again today.....  This is a friend's dog who oozes personality in her photographs!

Ho Ho #1

6 x 6 oil on canvas panel

Not a very good crop on this one...and I'm seeing, now that it is posted,  that the left eyebrow is not the correct value ... will adjust later.  

Heading Home

16 x 20 oil on canvas panel

Another cover-up but gave it a name.  I'm not really sure where I'm headed with this one, still needs work but I want to get it relatively abstract. 

Cover-up #2

8 x 10 oil on stretched canvas

Trying something different today.  This is painted on top of some Canadian geese I did several years back that I never did like.  

Cover-up #1

12 x 12 oil on stretched canvas - NOT AVAILABLE

I am making myself paint landscapes because I need lots of work on them however the only way I will attempt is if I paint on top of older paintings that I consider inferior!  That is why I am calling this painting Cover-up!  Maybe I will start numbering them....cover-up 1, cover-up 2, etc......

Blue Bunny

6 x 6 oil on gessobord

Another paint over because I went to my painting group without extra canvases.   I found an old painting in my art bag and just went after it - a little quickie study!

Reincarnation

12 x 16 oil on canvas panel

This was previously roses that is why I am calling it reincarnation.  I never did like the roses so I decided to make a landscape out of them.  I have quite a few old paintings that I plan to paint over.  I enjoy doing it because they have such a good build-up of paint on them already and the new paint just glides on easily. 

Experimental Landscape

8 x 10 oil on stretched canvas

This was an old landscape that I never did really like so I played around with the palette knife today and like it much better.