Little Nest of Eggs - Daily Painting

Little Nest of Eggs

6x6 Artist Board

A Daily Painting by Cheri Wollenberg

I am very busy right now moving to another home.  I have studios in two different places, and I am preparing for two exhibitions.  This little nest of blue eggs is one I enjoyed painting while I was on a trip to New Mexico last week.  I have painted birds' eggs and nests before and they are quite fun.  This  painting will be for sale in a gallery I'm working with so if you are interested, you will need to contact me by email located in my profile.

Rooster - Rooster Painting

Rooster 6

12x12 Original Oil on Canvas

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Cheri Wollenberg

It won't be long until my husband and I will be moving to our farm home.  I mentioned in an earlier post (June 14)  that my grandson and I had talked about raising some chickens.  He has not forgot!!!  Thinking about chickens again caused me to remember a painting that I did of a rooster.  I never was very happy with the results.  The compostion was not right for the support size.  So this is what I did to this fellow....  I cropped him on the canvas, took my exacto knife and did a little "surgery".  He was painted originally on a 16x20 stretched canvas.  I cropped and cut a 12x12 image from it and I'm much happier now.  The composition reads better.   I glued the painted canvas to a heavy foamboard with archival glue and framed him.  He is in my Etsy shop.  You can see two views...one of him and one of him framed.   Have a look at him.  He is a very welcoming fellow:)

Strawberry Topped Cupcake - A Daily Painting

Strawberry Topped Cupcake

8x8 Daily Painting

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Cheri Wollenberg

I am so easily distracted....I will be painting on one thing and then I'm off trailing to another subject.  I love painting.  Can't get enough of it!  I love food also.  This cupcake was delicious!

If you would like to have this little painting hanging in your kitchen or propped up against a shelf somewhere in your home, click.

Red Poppy And Red Vase

Red Poppy And Red Vase

12x24 Oil on Canvas

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Cheri Wollenberg

Red!  I love the color!  It is is exciting and stimulating.  I loved it as a child, and I think that I may be stimulated to it as a moth is to light.  Red can have both positive and negative connotation as a symbol in our language.  I would not want negative things thought about me personally, but I have a strong attraction for the color.  I would not want others to think of me as being overly confident or outrageous or some of the word language that it could imply, but I do tend to love it in my wardrobe.  A confession that I can make is that I have felt extremely “good” or “appropriately loud” at times in my life when I wore red (laugh).  One thing I know…..red is beautiful, it is exciting, and it gets my attention.  My desire to paint with red is that I simply like it.  I recently purchased a red vase.  It has been “screaming” for me to paint it; but frankly, it is hard to place with other items in a still life.  It is if this vase demands to be the “star of the show” or the focal point.  For some reason I’m challenged to pursue its possibilities and experiment with this vase.  I’m going to paint it in two ways.  This is my first post where I believe I have suppressed its total importance (because of it's exciting color)……giving the first focal direction to a flower….the poppy.  My next post about this vase will be that it is the most important focal point in an arrangement.   Either way………..Red is beautiful!

Pumpkins I - Original Oil Painting

Pumpkins I

6x8 Oil on Canvas

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Cheri Wollenberg

The leaves are falling here in Fayetteville just like it was already fall.  School has started, the kids are getting on buses everyday in their new school clothes, and there is always excitement in the air about football, new friends, various other things and change.  Changes in the seasons are also exciting.    The stores have changed their decorations themes.  Pumpkins and harvest themes are already being displayed everywhere.  Magazines are beginning to print new recipes and the newest fabrics and fashion trends. Artists are inspired by these changes too.  I am inspired with the colors, textures, and  aromas of new candles.  So I decided to start painting pumpkins and gourds.  I prefer to paint them from life but this one is from a picture.  I took a lot of pictures last fall of various gourds and pumpkins so I may do several while waiting for the first fruits of harvest to show at the neighborhood markets.    This is my first attempt for Autumn 2011.  Click Pumpkin I to go to my Etsy Shop if you would like more information about it.

Cow Painting of a Hereford Called Hilliary

Cow Painting of A Hereford Called Hilliary

18x18 Oil on Canvas

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Cheri Wollenberg

Hilliary is the name of this cow; however I wanted to entitle this painting "Love, Love, Me Do".

To purchase her you can visit my chatterboxart store on Etsy.  Just click Hilliary.

Teal Cup and Orange Poppy

Teal Cup and Orange Poppy

5x5 Oil on Canvas

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Cheri Wollenberg

This little 5x5 painting is a donation to the Art Center of the Ozarks for the Ninth Annual 5x5 Art Exhibition.  The art center hosts this exciting fundraiser and gallery event in Springdale, NW Arkansas.   Each miniature has to be created on 5x5 canvas that is given to local artists from the ACO organization.  Any media may be used as long as it stays the original dimensions.  The miniature works are then placed for auction during a fabulous evening event.  All the

proceeds are given to the organization for some really great worthwhile offerings to our community during the year. Artists and art collectors in NW Arkansas look forward to this event every year.  There are 350+ entries every year.  Visit ACO here to read more about this festive affair.