Cupcake Party - daily painting,cupcakes

6x6" oil on wood panel. Pleasantly surprised to stumble upon a cupcake party going on over at Karin Juricks Different Strokes challenge blog. Of course I had to join in.....

birthday -daily painting,cupcake

6x6 oil on panel.
a little cupcake - its been a while since Ive painted- this is in honor of our youngest who is turning 11!! how can that be???

A Presidential Party - daily painting,cupcake

6x6" oil on gessobord
couldn't resist these cupcakes at the market yesterday. Got me thinking how many red white and blue cupcakes are being made for presidential parties this week.
Used a limited palette for this and painted on a bright red ground, specifically trying to be loose and impressionistic with my brush strokes- staying away from tight and fussy.

A Little Party

6x6" oil on masonite

hmmm, seems my system has gone a little haywire for those of you who get my daily emails. sorry about the re-post. I have no idea why that happens, and dang! yesterday was my big 1year blog -aversary speech too. please go back and check out my blog for that....

meanwhile, still havent gotten the cupcakes out of my system, so there will be lots of celebrating this week ;) I am totally obsessed with painting the wrapper -especially the chocolate ones, but my favorite part of this painting is the shadow of the chocolate cupcake in the center - in particular the lighter blue next to the dark dark brown...love it.