Easter Basket

April 25, 2018

Easter Basked Acrylic 20"x24"

I was invited to be part of the traditional family Easter egg hunt. It was delightful to watch both Cannon and Avalon search the living area for hidden eggs. Then the excitement of opening them to find the goodies inside.

When the excitement settled down Cannon and I decided to use the basket of colored eggs as the inspiration for this weeks painting. We made an arrangement of the basket, grass and eggs at one end of the work table.

Cannon selected colors and indicated where they should be placed on the canvas,  Then he selected the small paint roller and went to work.  He use the paint roller exclusively getting his desired effect without additional brush work.

The result is this soft impression of pastel eggs nestled in Easter grass.

Donut Day

 

 

 

Just as Cannon and I were contemplating what to do with the four small (8”x8”) wood painting panels before us, Dad arrived with our inspiration – a big box of Dunkin Donuts!  We scanned the variety filled box and Cannon excitedly pointed out his favorite, pink frosted with sprinkles! Homer Simpson's favorite.

While we munched on doughnuts I contemplated how we could represent them. Ah-ha! Stencils!

First Cannon selected a color for the background covered the panels.Then we cut a round stencil.  Cannon added some white to yellow ochre and came up with a color very close to the the color of the baked cake doughnut. Using the small white sponge paint roller we made a large round shape almost touching the edge of the paint panel for the basic doughnut shape. 

Ah...frosting.  Light Magenta and white made a perfect match for the pink frosting. Using a stencil cut with a around waving edge that fit into the doughnut shape, Cannon added the frosting. 

But where was the doughnut hole? Using the rounded end of the small paint roller, dipped into  background color, Cannon "stamped" the doughnut hole. 

We used the same process on the second canvas to make a doughnut with white frosting.  Sprinkles were added to both doughnuts by dipping the handle of a small brush into a variety of colors and randomly stamping the shape around the frosting.   

Good enough to eat!

   

Acrylic on wood paint panel 8"x8"

   

Acrylic on wood paint panel 8"x8"