"First Cup" Small Oil Painting

First Cup

7 x 5 inch

Oil/Canvas/Panel

I love the little paintings done by the group of daily painters you can find at www.dailypaintworks.com. I admire their fortitude and daily discipline of painting everyday.

This is a quick little painting I did Saturday morning as I was having my first cup of coffee. I'm a bit dysfunctional until I get that first cup down. It was a treat to do something small and quick after spending so much time working on a large piece. I did another small one Sunday as well; I'll try and get it posted in the next day or two.

Our Daily Bread Finished

I just love it when I think I'm finished with a painting! I say that because, as I have said before, I often find things that I need to correct or change or something. Anyway, here it is for the world to see. I'm going to let it rest for a while before putting it in the frame and hanging it in the parlor at the church.
My wife, Mardon', is a wonderful interior decorator and she is close to putting the finishing touches on a redesign of the parlor at the First United Methodist Church here in Wellington,Kansas. The room actually serves as our Sunday School room as well as basically the living room of the church. I'll post a final picture of it actually in the room once it is framed and hung over the fireplace.
Well, now on to wrapping up the paintings for my show in May at the Coutts Memorial Art Museum in El Dorado, Kansas. The Coutts gallery is a large space that requires a large number of paintings to fill it (about 30-40). I will have around 25 paintings ready by May for the show and two lovely ladies who are fantastic artist graciously agreed to fill out the rest of the show. It is such a pleasure and honor for me to share this show with Mary Binford Miller and Nancy Whitaker. Go out to their websites and pay them a visit.
I'll keep you posted as we get closer to the artist reception on May 2nd.

"Our Daily Bread" - Progress Report

This painting is finally coming along. I don't know if it's just me or what but almost every painting I do I reach a point where I start getting anxious about it and almost get stuck. I reached that point last week on this painting and managed to paint my way through it.
I've got several things to finish on this: the chair, the basket on the right needs a bit more work, there's a hint of flowers on falling into the painting on the right side that hasn't been painted yet, the table needs to be finished up and I still have a cross to paint on the wall. Lots left.
I'm hoping to be done with this next week sometime. We'll see.