"Blue Jay #1", acrylic palette knife painting on canvas panel, 4"x4"

Fruit and Veggie Art

Several of my fruit and veggie paintings are now on display at Basil Restaurant in Weston.  Available for purchase at a sale price of $100 each no matter the size.  Many acrylic on canvas panels framed in rustic handcrafted vintage maple resembling sturdy crates.  Color Cucina....perfect for kitchen decor.
PS - Basil has great food!

Daily Painting is On Pause due to my new job.

Enjoy this view of my favorite place on earth: the shores of Lake Superior....while I am settling into my new job as Curriculum Director at the Center for the Visual Arts in downtown Wausau WI.  Stay tuned...

Today I Learned: Building greens through glazes.

"Granny Tiny", 5"x5", acrylic on canvas panel, c)2010 valerie@berkelydesign.com

The last of my tiny apple series, this framed painting is for sale at the Paint Box Gallery in Ephraim, Door County WI.

I enjoyed, again, the challenge of painting large to small.  But I especially liked getting to know my greens through many layers of transparent paint.  I found the abstract shapes and reflections in the green apple provided a good lesson in "trust" ... meaning: build the colors through glazes and weird abstract shapes.  In the end: an apple!

Stay tuned...