Valentine's Day Eye Spy

 

16x16in. oil on Ampersand Gessobord - available soon as the original painting and prints

This is the first painting in a new series that I'm creating reminiscing on those old I Spy books using candy revolving around various holidays! As mentioned above, this will be available as a print in addition to the original painting. This series includes this painting, a Halloween painting, an Easter painting, and a Christmas painting.

Roses Spark the Love in Your Heart

 

9x8.25in. oil on Trekell wood panel - click to purchase here

A while ago I picked up these cute heart-shaped wood panels from Trekell. Picking up a bouquet of roses from Target, I just knew that they had to be the subject of this painting. This heart is part 2 out of 4 of my heart-shaped painting series. The final two will be sunflowers, just because I love sunflowers. While I was setting up the composition for the My Heart is a Bouquet of Roses, I played around with different compositions. This one features more baby's breath and overall more roses, too. While I do prefer My Heart is a Bouquet of Roses, I still had a lot of fun painting this challenging composition. 

I Love You, Cupcake!

6x6in. oil on Ampersand Gessobord - sold; click to purchase stickers here

To celebrate Valentine's Day this year I wanted to do a still life painting of a Valentine's Day plushie I purchased last year. He's very cute! I love these little tenacious facial reactions, like how Mintie looks in my "Goochy, Mintie and Momo" painting. When I went back to Walgreens this year I saw the same plushie but with a different color frosting, and I think I still prefer the cute teal. Valentine's Day is quite precious to me and I love that I was able to celebrate in style with this lil boy. I hope you had a fantastic Valentine's Day and that you remember that you are loved!

Valentine's Day Candies

7x5in. oil on canvas panel - click to purchase here

I love cherry heart lollipops! The next in my candy series, I've created an homage to Valentine's Day. Candies featured in this painting are the cherry heart lollipops, M&Ms and cookies and crème Hershey's hearts. I thought a blue background would help the pinks and the reds really shine. The hardest part about this painting was the foil on the cookies and crème Hershey's hearts, but once I realized that it was just color blocks next to each other, it was pretty easy to translate them into the painting. I also ate all of these candies. 7/52

Sunflowers & Roses

7x5in. oil on canvas panel - click to purchase prints here

Valentine's Day is a big celebration in my house due to my birthday being the following day. My husband always gets me a gorgeous bouquet of flowers and I wanted to try my hand at my first-ever still life set up painting session! It was really difficult but it's such an important exercise. Excited to do more of these! 6/52

Candy Hearts

7x5in. oil on canvas panel - sold; click to purchase prints here

I actually love candies like conversation hearts and candy corn. My husband may make fun of me for my "terrible candy taste" but that means more for me. This painting actually sparked my love of painting candies! I just loved the dramatically lit hearts against the stark magenta background. These hearts said the silliest things, like "bae". The trick to make it "look" like there's writing on the hearts is to actually just paint abstract shapes! Who knew? I ate all of these candies. 5/52