Pink Tulips Still Life Painting

Pink Tulips in Blue and White Pitcher

6x8 Oil on Canvas

Cheri Wollenberg

Pink tulips make for a fun painting during the cold weather as we anticipate spring and the warming soils producing colors of delight.  I think I'll probably paint more!  This small painting is listed in my Etsy store.

Pumpkin With Blue and White Pitcher Still Life Painting

Pumpkin With Blue and White Pitcher

6x6 Oil on Canvas

Cheri Wollenberg

I love orange and blue together.  These two colors create a complementary color scheme that always makes a beautiful contrast.  This small pumpkin was just what I was looking for to create a small daily painting with a new blue and white pitcher that I had picked up a couple of weeks ago.  This little 6x6 painting can be found in my Etsy store.  Click here.

Fresh Strawberries in Blue and White Rice Bowl

Fresh Strawberries in Blue and White

Rice Bowl

by Cheri Wollenberg

This painting (6x6) features strawberries in a blue and white rice bowl. Set before a golden background the composition makes a primary color scheme complete. The strawberries look good enough to eat and they were! This painting may be purchased by visiting my etsy shop: http://www.chatterboxart.etsy.com/.

Drinking Coffee! Painting Cups and Saucers?

Blue and White Polka Dots

Original Oil Painting

6x8 Wrap Around Canvas

Drinking coffee is a pleasurable experience, wouldn't you say? Why is it? This morning I tried to think of how I would describe these habitual moments that take place often in my life. I love the aroma, the flavor, and the warmth (especially in the wintertime). Then of course - it gets me going. Is this the buzz? The little coffee cup above is one of several that I have painted in the last couple of months. It is also pleasurable to smell the aroma of paint, to visually see something interesting, to load a brush with oil paint and place on the canvas, and then get the "buzz" from something that brings together an assortment of the elements of art like pieces of a puzzle into something very pleasing and generating. Which is the most "habit forming"? I cannot tell.............