20/20 Jack-O-Lantern...Mouse

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my contribution to this week's DPW's The Paint Your Pumpkin Challenge posted by Carol Marine .
She said: In the spirit of Halloween I challenge you to paint your pumpkin!

I combined her pumpkins...
With a mouse I found.

I confess...I love mice ( when they're not running loose in my house, that is)! The pumpkin looked like a perfect temporary residence for this little critter. Stray seeds are an extra benefit.

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My Etsy

Matthew 11: ⁵ The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them ⁶And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

Dem Dere Eyes-Ringtail Lemur

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. June was the gracious hostess. Thanks for the great reference photo, June!

I liked the look in the little lemur's eyes. They seem open to so many interpretations....Dreamy...sad..angry...tender...Halloweenie.
I first prepared the panel with a coat of black gesso with a smidge of pthalo blue acrylic to make it really black. I love painting over this ground.

Hope you like it!

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My Etsy

Matthew 17:²⁰ And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Fruit Of The Vine-Grapes Still Life

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Oil on 6x6 canvas pad. Divided into 4 3x3 squares.

This is my contribution to this week's DPW's The Ten Minute Challenge - Again posted by Carol Marine .

The rules: Get a timer. Divide your canvas (I used a 6x6in piece of canvas pad) into small squares (or rectangles). They should be smallish - a couple or 3 inches square or thereabouts. Set your timer for 10 minutes. Paint your object in the first square. When the timer goes off - stop! Repeat until you are done. You can rotate your object and/or change the light for each new square.
paint just shapes and colors and values. Paint what you see- not what you THINK you see.

This is the second time they've ran this challenge. But it is very worth while and really should be repeated on your own many times!

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My Etsy

Matthew 12: ⁸ For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

Protective-Elephants

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Maureen was the hostess, and she provided a great group of reference photos.

I really liked the photo of the momma and her babe! Pictures of this sort always stir my emotions. To me this painting represents love, endangerment, the many times this scene has been replayed over thousands of years...A seemingly endless gamut of feelings wells up....But in the end, and in truth, it is a merely a small painting meant to capture the light in a scene.

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My Etsy

2 John 1:⁷ For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

Pink Barrette-Child Portrait

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my contribution to this week's DPW's The Simplify Cute Challenge posted by Carol Marine.
Her instructions basically were to simplify a way too busy background. Then she said: "Feel free to change anything, crop, whatever. Have fun!"
So that's what I did..."have fun"!

I loved trying to paint the effect of the bright sun light on the girl.

Not exactly Vermeer's Girl With A Pearl... but Girl With A Pink Barrette was loads of fun to paint.

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My Etsy

^{Matthew 9:28} And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. ²⁹Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you

Cup O' Comfort-Hot Chocolate

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. The hostess was Jean, and she provided great reference photos.

The day here is dreary, very cool, and wet, so the hot chocolate seemed to be a perfect fit.

This is oil on a 6x6 canvas panel over black gesso. As a final step, to make the gesso truly black in the painting, I added a thinned Prussian blue on top of the exposed gesso in the background.

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My Etsy

^{Matthew 9:12} But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

Faraway Thoughts-Figurative

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's DPW's The Composition Challenge posted by Layne Cook .
Her challenge: she posted a reference photo and asked us to arrange elements into an interesting composition. You should check out the photo at the DPW site.

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My Etsy

James 1:¹⁹ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath

Ladies' Man-Rooster

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. The hostess was Wendy, and she provided great reference photos.

This bird is so slicked up in his colorful best, how could any hen in her right mind resist?

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My Etsy

^{Jude 1:4} For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Spider Doing Pushups-Hand

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's DPW's The Hand Challenge posted by Shelley Ross.
She said, "The challenge this week is to paint one or both of your hands in a gesture - the Peace sign, Thumbs up, Hitching a ride, A-OK, or whatever hand pose moves you."

This is the "spider doing pushups on a mirror" which is ordinarily done against the opposing hand.
Just for kicks I photographed my hand doing pushups on a mirror. Whew!...Had to take a beer break after 25 reps....Hmmm...maybe I've been painting too long without working in some exercise?

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My Etsy

Jude 1: ²¹ Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Center Of Attention-Ducks

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. The hostess was Scatty, and she provided great reference photos.

Something about ducks always seem happy and many times humorous.
I liked how these guys were gathered around eyeballing the main duck. They were either admiring him or were about to boot him from the flock for some ducky infraction.

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My Etsy

^{3 john 1:11} Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.