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6x6" oil on canvas

A Cupcake Kind of Day (again) - pink cupcake painting

6x6" oil on panel.  .  Recently I noticed that my 1000 blog post has come and gone.  How did I miss that?  It has got me thinking about my first blog post - 7 years ago!!!  Wow.
 You can see my very first POST here.  Many, many cupcake paintings later and way better  photo editing skills these days. (thankfully) 
Today is another cupcake kind of day for sure.

Tuesday are "Teach Art Tuesdays" - I've got my kinders (who I love) and also in the afternoon I've got a group of preschoolers that stay for "Art Enrichment"  - this is how I kept them busy last week- we made Valentine Garlands - practicing our cutting skills! and printed our hands over a foam heart which leaves an adorable print! We made little collage frames for these today - SO Simple and Sweet, my favorite.

Secrets in the Snow - daily painting,debbie miller,snow scene,pink

6x6 oil on panel

A while back I painted several snow scenes - this is one of them - the last of the bunch. 
Think I'll do some more this week. 

A Little Pink on Blue - daily painting, cupcake,debbie miller

 6x6" oil on panel, 
Back in the studio today after a football filled, beach walks and crisp weather weekend.  Perfect.

Ignore the photo below if you are sick of pet photos, this dog is just so cute I can't help myself. 

two. cupcake painting, pink, chocolate, debbie miller

6x6" oil on canvas                                               two.

Hello Cupcakes!! painting cupcakes, pink, debbie miller

6x6 oil on canvas                                                     One.

Get ready - lots of cupcakes coming your way. Yay!
  A big batch - all on 1 1/2 inch gallery wrapped canvases - ready to hang
cute by themselves or as a group.


here is a little preview of what is to come ---

A little polish - daily painting, debbie miller,pink,orange

6x6" oil on panel

more makeup fun

Cosmetic Colors, daily painting, Debbie Miller

6x6" oil on panel

Hello. 
Did you know lipstick and nail polish are the new cupcakes?
Well they totally are. 
So. Much. Fun. to paint.

Hello Cupcake - daily painting, debbie miller, pink

6x6 " oil on canvas, ready to hang!

Thank you, thank you everyone who stopped by the studio saturday.
 It means so much to me that you came by. 

Sunshine Shoulders, Debbie Miller, children playing at the beach, painting



6x6" oil on panel

This week, since its so busy - for me and you - I've decided to post some of my little paintings that Ive posted before but are still kicking around the studio - but they are perfect little gifts!! Totally dry and ready to be shipped asap.

free shipping too PLUS I can gift wrap AND Ive got some small easels perfect for propping the painting on for display.



Cupcake (A), pink, cupcake painting,Debbie Miller

 6x6" oil on canvas. 
cupcakes, cupcakes,cupcakes and more cupcakes.
 Getting a big batch of cupcakes ready to go up to Boston. 
First, I spent Saturday tracking down some interesting models :).  Just wasn't in the mood to paint the grocery store cupcakes, for this amount of paintings I needed to switch things up and get some fresh
props.

 after that massive task - (eh hem, East Bay - we could really use a gourmet cupcake shop!)
I primed 16 small canvases and a bunch of panels.  THEN, I jammed.  Knocked out a whole bunch!!
  Talk about a Sugar Rush!!!
Back at it tomorrow.  Stay tuned, I'll share a few of them and let you know where they are going too.

It's all about the cupcakes, cupcake paintings,debbie miller

  For the next few days, it really is.  No Joke. 
I've got a bagillion to paint.    You know that pre-holiday cookie baking frenzie everyone seems to do at least once in their life? - usually before you turn 40 and you realize that you really DON'T have to make 12 kinds of cookies.  Yeh,THAT is what it will be like around the ol' studio for the next few days.
 It's cool.  No worries.  I got this. 

It's All About the Pink - daily painting, cupcakes, Debbie Miller

6x6" oil on panel
Couldn't let the month go by without painting a pink cupcake
 - Don't forget - get "the girls" checked! -

A mini sweet treat - print of original oil painting,debbie miller

$20 - this little cutie is 2and half inches by 2 and a half inches - shown here in its 8x10 inch mat ready to pop into a ready made frame.
- the dark line at the bottom of the image is the shadow of the mat - its not in the art

Beach Girls - beach painting,playing,blue,ocean,coast

6x6 " oil on cradeled panel.
black sides - ready to hang. 
this time I painted in much the same way as I approach a portrait.  - used a burnt sienna ground, then using a fairly big brush sketched out the composition, adding a little umber to the shadows/darks and wiping the ground away where I want the lightest lights to be.
happy with the feel of this one

A Sweet Treat - cupcake painting,Debbie Miller

6x6" oil on panel.
Hope all the Mothers out there had a wonderful day!
Gorgeous day here in the N.E.

Pink Today - beach scene, daily painting, Debbie Miller

6x6" oil on panel. Just got a new tube of "Radiant Magenta" by Gamblin - couldn't resist using it today. Also used just one brush - a #1 Bright. Later it will be a #6 Bright for tonights portrait. Brights are my go-to brushes - what are yours?

The Lineup - daily painting,cupcakes

6x6" oil on panel-


There are a million things to paint but painting cupcakes never disappoints. Swirling the oil paint on is JUST like swirling frosting on a cake. Plus they are so dang cute and perfect for these small format paintings. There is a little lineup of them in my studio ready to go - just right to kick of the sweet month of February.



If youve got a minute watch this video of the master pastry painter Wayne Thiebaud.


His paintings have always been favorites and remind me of the bakeries in the North End of Boston that my parents used to take us to as kids. - like this one


He doesnt always paint pastry - sometimes he paints women at the beach - a man after my own heart.

Sunset - daily painting,floral,pink

6x6" oil. Just now, driving home from my studio there was the most gorgeous sunset over the bay. With the snow and the purples and pinks it was just beautiful.

I wasnt going to post this one but I thought of it after seeing that sky, so here it is.

sweettart -

8x8 oil on panel.
finally back to painting after all that computer housekeeping. here is a sweet little bouquet of pink roses.
just for you and me
because we deserve them