Pig and Peony

 

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Here's one last peony from my garden. They are all done now. It's never long enough. The pig feels the same way.

Gathering Safely In

 

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This is the last of the orange slices for now. The title is a line from a song I like. 10 points if you can guess it without looking it up online. : )

Orange Delights

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Here's another one with orange slices. I try not to cut them up the same way every time, although this is my favorite. I think the cups like it too. Especially this white one keeps sneaking over to spend time with them. I get it - they're cute.

Organized Orange

 

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I got an email today from a gal who says that she "struggles with the middle values." And I can honestly say - me too! Recently I added a new thing to my studio that has helped. I painted a simple little value scale (with acrylic paint) that I put under my palette so that the values peek out along the bottom.

When I'm having trouble, I mix colors with corresponding values right above each value. This helps especially with all the white cups and plates I paint. I also think to myself, when I'm looking at the plate, for example, what like value can I find? Is there a value in the cup that is similar? And every time I mix a new color, I look for like values to compare it too (as opposed to looking at only the colors right next to the thing). I might even put a little dab (on my palette) of the new color next to a color with a similar value just to compare.

I will try and post a photo with paint on the palette to show more of what I mean. Hopefully this all makes sense, but feel free to email me with questions!

Orange You Bottles?

 

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Titles are hard to come up with. That's all I got today.

Orange You Colorful

 

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Here's another larger painting experiment. This time I decided to add a lot of color variation within each color. I tried it out first on my ipad and that really helped a lot.

Eggs in Glass

 

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Just a reminder that I'm giving away a print of this old car painting on Wednesday (2/21/24). I'll choose randomly from anyone signed up for my newsletter. : )

Who's Making Breakfast?

 

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I'm trying something new! Instead of the auction format I've used for over 17 years, I'm going to try a fixed amount approach. All my 6x6, 5x7 and 6x8in paintings will now be $200, plus whatever it costs me to ship. Thank you all for your continued support!

Vitamin C

 

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Here's one last citrus painting, for now. I always seem to circle back around to every subject eventually.

Organizing Orange

 

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Happy New Year to everyone! Here's to happiness and good health for us all in 2024. And many joyful paintings. : )

Up With Orange

 

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I got this green vase many years ago, fully intending to paint it, but it just never worked with any of my compositions. Until now. And it's very happy. So happy it wanted me to tell you - 

*** HAPPY HOLIDAYS! ***

We're Forked

 

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I can't help myself - whenever I paint orange slices I have to do one or two paired with blue glass. The combination is so yummy to me.

On Display

 

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If orange slices were sculptures and they were being displayed at an art show...

The Lure of Orange

 

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I've been posting my paintings here, on Facebook, and on Instagram for a while. I seem to be getting more and more spam messages and comments, mostly on Facebook. Sometimes more spam than not spam. Anyone else experiencing that?

Observing Orange

 

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I've been digging this horizontal format lately. It's a different way to compose vs the square I typically use. More like a landscape, which is probably why they call it that. Ha.

Blue Finds You

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With these recent still life paintings I've been trying to slow down and be more deliberate with my strokes. A downside to this is that it takes longer, and I risk running out of steam before I finish. Also if I slow down too much then I find myself getting tight. And so, like with many things, I find a balance needs to be maintained. Ahh, but if it were easy it would be boring.

Picking Teams

 

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I just came from playing pickleball, so I guess I'm in that frame of mind (see title). And since it's the end of the year, I'll give you a little update on the state of my neck. The disc that was herniated was pressing on nerves, and because it was happening for so long (20 years), it will take a while to heal. It's been almost a year since my surgery, and I am now able to paint as much as I want, and play pickleball twice a week with minimal pain. I'm so grateful for the people who helped me, and for all of you who sent me encouraging words!! I wish good health and wonderful things for you all in 2023!!

Attack of the Orange Bits

 

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When oranges are whole they are quite complacent. But when you cut them up they get either curious or angry. And if they get angry, they are like little zombies attacking whatever is nearby. Bet you didn't know that.

The Little Things

 

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I am coming out of teaching retirement for an epic workshop, in Florence, Italy! May 11-19, 2023. Today is my official PRE-announcement. Registration will open December 26th at 5PM MST. You can find all the info here at: artensity.org/carolmarine. If you have any questions please email artensityworkshops@gmail.com.

I taught at the same place in 2019 and the students STILL email me and tell me what a great time they had. Our apartments are right in the middle of everything. All we have to do is walk outside and we can immediately start snapping pictures. We'll do that a fair amount and then take them back to the studio and paint. I'll give tons of instruction about taking better photos, editing, and painting from them. And have I mentioned the dinners yet, and the wine?! These people take food seriously. We'll have a few tours of the city & art museums sprinkled in, and a cooking class. It's so fun! I hope you'll think about joining me. : )

On Holiday

 

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This isn't a holiday subject necessarily, but I felt like the colors were kinda Christmas-y. Yeah?

I've been in my studio every day lately, but not painting much. I'm indulging myself in some different creative endeavors. I know painting will call to me again at some point, but for now here is one of 4 little still lifes leftover from when I was painting more.