30/30 Challenge, Day Two: Scary Blue Turtle Monster

Cat Balloon Invasion

Painting number two is  a portrait of a blue, turtle like creature that's a little creepy I think (I'm 90% certain that the wooden figure I used as a inspiration was a turtle). But since this is Wibbley World, nothing bad ever happens and you can just relax now.   I like to call this painting "Cat Balloon Invasion" because to me, that's what appears to be taking place here.

Cat Balloon Invasion

3 x 3, Oil on Wood

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30/30 Challenge, Day One: Fuzzy Bunny

Well I'm doing another challenge, this one is 30 paintings in 30 days!  It's getting late and I need to go back to work tomorrow, so this won't be as wordy as some of my other posts.

What I'm doing for a theme is making paintings inspired by actual things I have here in my studio.  Ideally I would like to post the inspiration piece but in the interest of time (since I also work full time) I may not get to that part right away.

All of these paintings will be 3"x3", oil (probably) on wood panel.  They will also all be for sale in my ETSY shop, again in the interest of time I may not have them available in my shop right away, but if anyone is interested you can also purchase them directly from me.

Anyway, this is #1, a portrait of a little needle felted bunny I had made a few years ago.  As of now he is nameless:

White Bunny

3x3, oil on wood panel

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Thanks for your interest in my work!

29 Faces: Days 20 - 29 - The Big Schtradoozie

I can't believe I managed to finish this challenge on time!  Halfway through I felt I didn't have the time, but then realized I was still drawing & painting anyway and that it was posting which was causing the problem.

Anyway, here are the final 10 faces:

First are the micro-faces, these four are all .8" square, painted on faux scrabble tiles.  You can see their supersized versions below.

Baby Quackers

Face 20

.8" x .8" Genesis Oils on Wood

Bowser

Face 21

.8" x .8" Acrylic on Wood

Baby Blackey

Face 22

.8" x .8" Genesis Oils on Wood

Baby Green Monster

Face 23

.8" x .8" Genesis Oils on Wood

Next are some Graphite ACEO's:

Puppy

Face 24

2.5 x 3.5 Graphite on Bristol

Alligatorey

Face 25

2.5 x 3.5 Graphite on Bristol

Cinnabon (Violet's bunny)

Face 26

2.5 x 3.5 Graphite on Bristol

Cold Drinks, part 1

Faces 27 & 28

2.5 x 3.5 Graphite on Bristol

And Finally...

Baby Tigey

Face 29

1.6" diameter, Genesis Oils on Wood

Thanks for looking, I hope you've enjoyed this little show!

Happy Day After Easter

Happy Easter, a day late!

From,

Your Friend,

Lunchbox

5x5

Oil (Genesis) on Masonite

Crazy Hat Day featuring the (unrelated) Johnsons

This month's Nibblefest theme is Horses, so here's my entry:

Crazy Hat Day

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2.5 x 3.5

oil on masonite panel

Yay, it’s Crazy Hat Day!  Horsey Johnson and Soft & Fuzzy Johnson (no relation) both love C.H.D., it’s their favorite holiday.  If you ask me, their hats really aren’t all that crazy, but who am I to judge?  I’m just the photographer.  

This was painted with Genesis heat-set oils, I've talked about them numerous times here already so I won't bore you with that story again.

29 Faces Challenge - Day 21: Pidgey

I'm doubling up today's face with a project for another art group I belong to - the theme for that was just "Birds."

Face 21

Pidgey

1" x 1.5"

Oil on panel

In case anyone's interested, I used Genesis heat set oils for Pidgey's little portrait.  

29 Faces Challenge - day 12

I actually had another piece to post for today, it was oil on YUPO again but I guess the oils take longer to dry on YUPO than on other surfaces & I couldn't scan it comfortably.

So continuing with my YUPO experimenting, I tried Genesis heat set oils on YUPO and came up with this little fellow:

Face 12

1" x 1"

I didn't plan this one out much at all as I had no idea how the YUPO would react when baked, but it survived! I think I'm going to do more of this combo.

29 Faces Challenge - Days 7 and 8

Two more pieces for the challenge, I'm almost caught up!

First, it's everyone's favorite Chipmunk, complete with lunch-pail and diaper so you all can stop worrying now:

Face 7 - Lunchbox!

I haven't been mentioning the sizes here, but most of my 29 faces have been ACEO sized or smaller - this one's a standard 2.5 x 3.5 card size. It's graphite on Stonehenge paper.

This next one's much smaller - about 1" x 1.5". I used Genesis Heat Set Oils on a little wooden panel:

Face 8 - Future Violet

This is a portrait of my daughter Violet in a few years, wearing her BBG hat that I think she's going to have.

The Moozles

The Moozles
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The spotted calf wants to know your name. Really she does, but don’t get too close! If you look carefully, you can see that those aren’t ordinary spots. Bossy has the moozles (not to be confused with their cousins, the measles) which (from what I’ve read), are super contagious and all kinds of itchy.

I painted this using Genesis heat set oil paints, about which I can't say enough good things. They very well might be my favorite paint now.