Cafe Dumonde Napkin and sugar Dispenser

Making  progress along the way to the napkin holder, napkins background iconic green cafe chair and sugar dispenser on the table at Cafe Du Monde .

Andrew Jackson

The deep contrast in color tones  and the backdrop of the blue sky,attracted me to do this New Orleans landmark. Andrew Jackson before the St Louis Cathedral New Orleans, after first few  layers.
20 x 16/ canvas

Sailboat on Lake Pontchartrain and Egret over the marsh

Lake Pontchartain sky/seascape

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Finally getting the sky -cloud look striving for in this in progress  

16 x 20 canvas, piece  on Lake Pontchartrain.

The photo for this piece  is looking north out onto the lake on

New Orleans' Lakefront seawall.

Back to starting over on the water. so the water shows only the 

under painting in this stage. I might ad a sailboat in the distance before 

calling it done.

Apple Study Acrylic on Canvas paper in progress

 

Several store bought apples on the counter caught my attention as  an obvious  subject for a large still life painting so I arranged two of those  apples and took about  50 photos. From those photos I  came up with a great looking backilt setting for those two apples. Above is the apple on the left from that photo in this in-progress study, on canvas paper. I am using the apple  as the practice run. The larger canvas painting will have both apples