Limes on Plate, daily painter oil painting still life of fruit

Oil on canvas, 8" x 8"
$130 plus $8.95 shipping via Priority Mail - SOLD
Email: marie@mariefox.com

This was a fun little painting to do mid-summer. Now maybe I'll go make a gin and tonic - and give my models a squeeze!

Carrots, Coffee & Orange: oil painting 12" x 12" square, fruit & vegetable still life, kitchen art, coffee mug, orange and blue, Marie Fox

Oil on Canvas, 12" x 12"

$120 plus Priority Mail shipping SOLD

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This is one of those paintings that just happened....and I'm happy with it. It seems playful, a good thing. The photo sent the colors in a cool direction. The yellows are really less green and the cup more lavender.

Three Yellow Roses, oil painting, still life of turqoise vases, bowl of oranges, fruit, contemporary women painters

Oil on canvas, 24" x 30" SOLD to a collector in Laugharne, Wales
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My self-appointed challenge here was to balance a group of cool colored blue and turquoise vases against a strong hit of orange in the fruits. Separating and connecting these areas was the cloth which is also a warm color and different texture from the reflective vases. Although I never really altered the composition while painting, I did experiment a lot with the background colors until I came up with these. Big paintings are great because they're very demanding and I feel I can really 'get into them'...kind of like climbing into them. Oil paint is a lusciously physical thing...and working big means more connection with it, more manipulation and play.

Blue Vase & Fruit

Oil on Canvas, 30" x 24"
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$1500 plus shipping SOLD to a collector in Massachusetts

I seem to have a love for fabric, and have a feeling that I'll be creating a series of paintings that focus on the folds and textures of draped cloth. I find this subject luxurious. Maybe it's because I spent many years hand-dyeing silk which I then fabricated into clothing of my own design. It sold well in designer boutiques but after a while I wanted to move onto the next project - high fashion leather belts. Sewing leather was amazing. Such a different feel from the silk, and just as much fun. So it's no wonder that fabric is the landscape I love to paint - the hills and valleys, light and shadow, paths in and out and around.

A goal of this painting was to subdue most of the colors in order for the turquoise and orange to stand out and draw the viewer's attention. It took great restraint on my part to keep the main colors neutral. I'm crazy about color and find it hard to hold back on my use of them in all their glorious intensity. I do like the way this painting turned out.

Spanish Dancer: 18" x 24" oil painting, colorful tile on linen napkin, green apple

Oil on canvas, 18" x 24"
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SOLD to a collector in Massachusetts

Finally I tried a bigger canvas than my usual 6" x 6" and 8" x 10" ones. It was somewhat intimidating to set a large blank canvas on my easel. But by the time I'd finished setting up the scene I was eager to paint. I'm happy for the hours spent on this painting. However my camera did not quite catch the colors of the completed painting. Isn't that often the story? We struggle to create just the perfect color relationships which are then often lost in the photo or the upload to the blog. Anyway, off to find another big canvas.

Green Apple & Red Napkin: Small square daily oil painting of fruit, green and red

Oil on Canvas, 8" x 8"
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I loved trying to capture the sense of the apple within the folds of the red napkin. I'm happy with the composition and colors here. The actual painted colors seem brighter than my photo. With all the differences between monitors and computers, it's difficult to get colors just right in a photo.

Blue Creamer & Two Lemons

Oil on Canvas, 14" x 11"
SOLD

Single Pear on Red

Oil on Canvasboard, 7" x 5"
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At last I'm painting again, although I'm now 3000 miles away from my home studio. But pears, paints and canvas grow everywhere!

Copper, Apple and Book

Oil on Linen, 6" x 6"
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Lemon Slices on Napkin: fruit still life, kitchen art, lemons, wedges on linen napkin

Oil on Linen, 6" x 6"
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More fruit slices, this time sitting on a linen napkin I bought long ago because I liked the little holes where threads have been drawn out. This painting pairs nicely with the limes on a book. Just perfect for a kitchen!

Three Limes and Book

Oil on Linen, 6" x 6"
$75 plus $10 shipping via Priority Mail SOLD
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I love the shapes of these lime wedges and the book creates some nice diagonals.

Rose, Lime & Card, 9 x 11 still life original oil painting fruit flower saucer, home decor daily painting

Oil on Linen, 11" x 9"
$200 plus $9.95 Priority Mail shipping to U.S.  Donated to a Charity that helps young women
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And the lime makes its appearance once more. I like the darker colors of this painting. Oddly, I began this painting by deciding what kind of shapes I wanted to paint, and then found the objects that best suited the shapes and lines. The object that determined the color scheme was the art postcard behind the dish. My grandmother had sent it to me when I was twelve, and for some wonderful reason, I found it recently. So magical to read her words to me. So maybe I added the rose because of that.

Lime & Fork: small square oil painting still life, daily art on canvas, 6 x 6

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Oil on Linen, 6" x 6"
$130 plus $5.95 shipping via Priority Mail SOLD
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Teal Vintage Creamer & Limes: square oil painting, lime wedges slices, fruit, kitchen art, still life

Oil on Linen, 8" x 8" SOLD
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Lime Slices & Saucer

Oil on Linen, 6" x 6" - SOLD
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As always, I love to paint fruit wedges. This time I chose limes for their color and tried to play up their translucent nature by placing them near dark reds.

Watermelon Slices Oil Painting: fruit, 11 x 14 still life, vintage towel red and green

Oil on Linen, 14" x 11" SOLD
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Yesterday at the market, the gorgeously red interior of half a watermelon grabbed my eye. At home I noticed that the color became even more vibrant when I set the fruit slices on this towel of green, blue and bluish-red squares. So off to the studio we all went - to make art.

Pear on Matisse Art Book: 11 x 14 oil still life painting, dancers fruit on saucer colorful daily art realism

Oil on Canvas, 14" x 11"
SOLD
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This was a fun painting because I loved the subject - a pear on a plate set on the back of my Matisse book. I even included the bar code as a spot of color. It was a wonderful exercise to follow the lines of these dancing figures by Matisse.

Coffee Pot and Pears

Oil on Canvas, 20" x 16" - $325 plus shipping/handling
SOLD to a collector in Arizona
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For some reason this painting has a French feel to it. I think it's the coffee pot that makes me imagine a breakfast in Paris. The reflections in the coffee pot were fun to paint - colorful but not too specific because the metal has a dull finish. The pears seemed to arrange themselves in the scene and are much bigger than in reality.

Lemon Wedges on Towel

Oil on Canvas, 8" x 10" -SOLD
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Three Pears in A Silver Bowl

Oil on Canvas, 12" x 16" SOLD
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