Linda Hunt

Approximate 12"x 12" on Bristol paper.....graphite and black chalk.

These vintage glass Christmas balls are always fun to draw......

This was a very FUN sketch to do.....it took a while, but I am happy with the outcome.  Now I want to do a series of them.

I love the old glass ornaments from the mid century era.  These were fun to draw...feeling a little rusty but I'll get back in the swing of things...

  20"X20" Oil Stretched Canvas $800.00 I had so much fun painting the last painting of ornaments that I decided to select some of my favorite Christmas ornaments and place them in a box with a sheer white fabric.  Once again it was advantageous at some point to break the painting down to small bites and finish area by area.  Then toward the end I orchestrated the placement of final details.  There may be some very minor additions to be made but I will decided tomorrow.

  16"X20" Oil Stretched Canvas $600.00   This is a much larger painting than I have been working on.  I chose the subject matter because of the colors and the tissue paper surrounding the ornaments.  I found that I needed to gray down the values in the paper to get it to read as white.  I think that I may have been able to go a bit darker.  I have never worked to any extent with cloth or folded paper and this presented many challenges.  I painted each section of the painting and finished a section before moving on the next section.  Was this the wisest way to work?  Perhaps and then again perhaps not....I need to think more about it.  Fun painting to do!

.   6"X 6" Oil Ampersand Gessobord   This is really late being listed and for that matter painted!  I had many things going on and I am just now trying to finish a painting for Day 19.  The little bird is a Christmas ornament and so is the silver glass ball. The bird is gold and sparkly.  I tried to capture some of the sparkle and am not sure if it translated.  The wings are gossamer with a very fine light color netting.  It was fun to paint.  I have tried unsuccessfully many times.  This time I understood value much better as well as color.  It is fun to try new things.  The 30 in 30 challenge has for some reason left me more able to experiment.  This painting can be found here .

  6"X6" Oil Ampersand Gessobord $100.00 This is my submission for Day 12 of the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge hosted by Leslie Saeta.  All I can say is WHEW!!  What a challenge indeed!  Fun though!  This painting can be found here .

6X6 $100 Available on my Etsy site   This was a fun little painting to do.  I backlit the still life so that the light would shine through the jar of honey and light the edges of the candy can.  I was working wth darker values and balancing the composition with light.  I am very happy with this little painting.