Apple Still Life Painting VI

Still Life Apple Painting VI - Copper Pot and Red Apples

9x12 Original Oil on Canvas

Cheri Wollenberg - Artist

This painting features a copper pot with two brilliant, red apples.  It has sold; however, I'm including it in my blog posts because it was originally part of my apple painting series.

SOLD

Apple Still Life Painting II

Apple Still Life Painting II

12x24 Oil On Canvas

Original by Cheri Wollenberg

This is the second of several apple still life daily painting that I've worked on recently.  Stay tuned.  This one is listed on Etsy here.

Retro Cat and Red Apples - A Still Life Painting

Retro Cat and Red Apples

6x8 Oil on Canvas

Cheri Wollenberg

 

This little ceramic cat was an article that graced my grandmother's home for many years.  As a child I was fascinated by it as well as other items that she had placed around in various arrangements or on certain table tops with family pictures.  She had 9 children of whom my mother was number 6.  My grandfather had been a farmer all his life except when he served in WWI so they didn't have a lot of monetary things.  Their home was full of love; however my grandmother of 4'11" was a disciplinarian!  I'm sure she had to get her bluff in some way because of her size if not because of the need for organization in a large home and family situation.  Plus, on this side of my life I understand why one would not want 15+ grandkids jumping on her beds.  All this to say, I was not allowed to play with her knick-knacks, but I had a great imagination.  I imagined stories around this little ceramic figure....some of them quite whimsical.  It became one of my possessions when I found it in my mothers garage many years later.  This little painting makes me smile.  I smiled all the time I painted it.  The figurine is in other paintings I've done.  I still get a charge of memory out of arranging it in compositions great and small.  It is listed in my Etsy store.

Sunflowers in Willow Pitcher and Apples - Still Life Painting

 

Sunflowers in Blue Willow Pitcher and Apples

8x10 Oil on Canvas

Cheri Wollenberg

A primary color scheme indeed!  I love painting Blue Willow dishes and vessels.  They seem to compliment any subject or color scheme.  Find this painting here in my Chatter Box Art store on Etsy.

Apples and Crock

Apples and Crock

8x8 Oil on Canvas

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Cheri Wollenberg

Painting apples has been the subject I have explored for over a week now.  It is sort of like eating one thing until I'm really tired or burned out of that particular food group.  This may be a condition.....I don't know (laugh)!  I have grandchildren who do this,  and we worry about them and their nutrition.  My ability to be consumed with things drives me as inspiration until it is played out to my satisfaction.  Then I have to go on to the next thing.  Since I've created all these apple paintings, I have started pansy paintings!  I'll begin posting them as soon as all the apple ones are "blogged".  

To purchase this painting you can click Apples and Crock.

Apple Pies to Bake

Apple Pies to Bake

12x12 Original Oil on Artist Panel

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Cheri Wollenberg

This painting of apples and a rolling pin became a subject of inspiration for me when I was on a treasury with another etsy seller. I loved the photograph she had taken of the item that was featured from her shop. I asked her permission to do this painting and she graciously told me I could.  Just click Apples to read a further description and link to her shop.

Three Apples and Blue and White Bowl

Three Apples and Blue and White Bowl

9x12 Oil on Canvas Board

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Cheri Wollenberg

This painting is an older one that I painted a couple of years ago.  Some paintings I can't hardly give up for one reason or another.  I've never quite figured it out.  My husband says, "You can paint another one!"  But, there is something that keeps me bonded with them (like Velcro).  Is it because I love the subject matter....the color.....design.....the end result (product)?  I wonder if it is that deep down.... I'm afraid that I couldn't quite duplicate it if I tried.  All artists know that we really can't duplicate something exactly and maybe....just maybe....that magical thing called "process"  is what we bond with.  Who knows (smiles)? 

Apples and Glass Compote

Apples and Glass Compote

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Cheri Wollenberg

When my friend Pam brings apples from her tree in the late summer and early fall, we always have such fun painting them.  This painting is from one of the images I made of the still life set ups with the apples.  This year was a bad year and she only made a  few...they were very green when she brought them in, so I'm thinking the photograph I used here was from a year ago....still had a good time.

This painting can be purchase by clicking:  Apples