Two Pink Cupcakes – 5″ x 7″ – Acrylic on Wood Panel

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Here is a side view of the painting on my work desk, taken shortly after I finished it.  You can see the reference photo behind it:

The photo was taken as dusk was settling in, hence the slightly bluish tinge.  I will take another photo when the lighting is better!

Here is another view of the painting on my desk.  I wanted to show this one because it captures two more paintings behind it: the funky abstract on the left, and the expressionist portrait on the right.  I hate wasting paint, so I normally work on several paintings at once.  Hence you can see a similar color scheme amongst all three of these paintings.  When working on the photorealist painting, I usually have to wait awhile for the thin watery glazes to dry, so I need something else to do.  This is when having other paintings-in-progress comes in handy!

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First I uploaded my abstract painting, Orderly Chaos.  The original painting is a mere 12″ x 12″, so it was really interesting to see how it would look on such a large scale.  Pretty cool, I think!  If only I had the time and space to do such large scale works… but since I travel a lot, it’s much more practical to work on small (8″ x 10″ or smaller), portable artwork.  Someday I hope to stay put long enough to create some really large pieces!

Then I decided to upload a couple of my photorealist still lifes, which are even smaller.  Here is Purple Cupcake, which is 6″ x 6″:

Heh, that looks pretty neat. 

Here is Easter Bunny, the original of which is 5″ x 7″:

There’s something amusing, yet scary and imposing, about these gigantic sweets.  They’re cute in a fake digital form, but I’m not sure I’d ever get the gumption to create photorealistic still lifes on this scale… that would be a ton of work!  I love using a tiny tiny brush, so to create photorealistic paintings on this scale would involve totally changing my work process. 

For now, I’ll stick to making tiny creations…

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