Pear Season

After a long hiatus from oils I begged my fellow 8, Carol to stand over me and prod me along again.  She graciously agreed and after seeing her beautiful pear still life yesterday I asked if she would paint a pear with me. 
It felt good to just get out my oils, brushes, and easel and set up for a still life.  No products, no found objects, no newspapers spread on the floor, no rubber gloves just some oils and a canvas.  I painted this pear from a painting Carol had done awhile ago. Neither my colors or the shape is exactly the same but the process is.  Draw, mix, paint.
I have also been inspired by several of my other 8's who have committed to painting or drawing daily.  Thanks, sometimes life gets in the way but don't let it get in the way of doing something for yourself as often as you can.

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Pear Still Life, "Le Bol de Poires" by Carol Schiff, 14x18" Oil on Canvas

Time for another Wild and Wacky Wednesday sale!

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$225.96 + shipping with $20.00 rebate

This luscious bowl of pears in a dark and mysterious environment is painted in oils with glaze after glaze after glaze.  It's on stretched 14x18x.5 canvas.  Gallery price was $400.00

As you know, Wild and Wacky Wednesday involves an additional discount.  So, although this piece is already discounted $175.00, for today only, it can be yours with an additional rebate of $20.00.  Just follow the link here to my Etsy listing and purchase the painting.  You must write Wild and Wacky Wednesday on the order.  As soon as I receive notification of payment, I will refund your PayPal account $20.00.

This offer is good only until midnight EST January 7, 2014.

Thanks for viewing!



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Flamingo Dancer, Pen and Ink by Carmen Beecher

$38, Click to Purchase

This is for all those who call "Flamenco" "Flamingo." Just a gentle hint that they are mispronouncing it. I like the rose in her teeth--if she had teeth. After seriously painting so many birds in oils, this is just plain fun.

Pleinaire at FIT Bontanical Gardens

I love to paint pleinaire, and joined a couple of the Art Students Guild members on Tues.  This is the watercolor painting I did on site.  The Ti plants are the star.  They seen to be at their peak right now.
Mary Warnick.

Fancy Feathers, 5x7 Pen and Ink Drawing by Carmen Beecher

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 I felt a bit Seussical and Zentanglish at the same time, so I made up a bird. It's the Mantilla-Crowned Checkertail.

Small Abstract Painting, "Red Sky" by Carol Schiff, 8x8x1.5" Oil on Canvas

Red Sky in the Morning

Sailors Take Warning

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130 + shipping

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Intra Coastal Sunset Painting by Carol Schiff, 6x8" Oil

Are you living in snow?  Come on down!!

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97 + shipping

The weather's great!

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