Fruit and glass still life

Just finished this small 12 x9 still life. Finding the challenge in reflections. 

Finished Oct. painting

In a month of not much painting - before we left for vacation, I was able to get back into he studio for a couple hours to finish this one up. It gives me some ideas for a series of smaller pieces- the pear showing through the bottom of the glass is the highlight to me - a happy accident.  

October

Today was a studio day- first one this week. So I painted furiously- 9:00 to 3:30 and this is the progress. 

I'll let it rest over the weekend and hopefully finish it up early next week. 

Just finished this one up today. 

Grapes-wine

Grapes are ripening- it's crush season here in Oregon. I wanted to try a still life of some of our grapes. I've worked almost 4 hours on this one already. I have enough on the panel to finish it up later. And took a shot of the grapes for reference when I have a chance to finish it. 

New series -

Going back to looking at horses and their gear, subject matter I worked on last year. I'm focusing more closely- whereas before I included whole bodies, mostly, and included riders and handlers - I'm working on composition in a more abstract sense. My choices are made on that basis- features of a horse- parts of the tack -relating areas to each other-but I do enjoy bringing into focus certain aspects that make an individual animal. I can't seem to get away from that. 

Echinacea bouquet for July.