Purple salad onions #186

Daily painting #186 4"x6" oil on primed canvas panel

All my clothes are feeling tight! Too much holiday and eating good food (and good wine!). So tonight (and for the next couple of weeks I think!) it is a delicious salad for supper! I love the deep purple tones in these purple salad onions or spring onions.....if I have to eat salad it may as well be a pretty one!

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Button mushrooms #185

Daily painting #185. 4"x6" oil on primed canvas panel

My daughter was once told by someone foolish that mushrooms on farms are grown in horse manure (actually they said 'horse poo'). Well my daughter is almost 11 years old and she is yet to let a mushroom pass her lips! She thinks they are awful, although she doesn't ever remember trying one. I have tried to disguise them in food by chopping them really fine but there is no fooling her....she is NOT eating something that she thinks is grown in horse $#£@...... 

So mushrooms get cooked separately in this house....the rest of us all love them!

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Cheers! #184

Daily painting #184. 6"x8" oil on primed canvas panel

Tonight is Candice's last night under African skies before she heads off back to Chicago. Sadly I can't spend it with her as she is still in Zimbabwe, but I wish I could! I know she will be enjoying a beer on her last night....so I thought I would enjoy one with her....and toast her in spirit since we can't actually  'Ching' glasses together! My heart feels very sore tonight .....travel safely ....'til next time! CHEERS!

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Blue and white vintage brooch #183

Daily painting #183. 4"x6" oil on primed canvas panel 

Last week Monday we walked Kalk bay in Cape Town visiting all the quaint little shops. In a little antique shop huddled up against the train track and shoreline, I found this old blue and white ceramic brooch. I love vintage items and especially love old pieces of jewelry and brooches. I was actually looking for an old mosaic brooch in good condition when I found this one....and I couldn't resist!

183 days of painting little daily paintings means I have now been painting daily paintings for exactly half a year.....who would have thought what started out as a weeks challenge would still be going strong a half a year later!!!! Thanks for all your support, comments and purchases along the way...

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Ballet shoe #182

Daily painting #182. 5"x7" oil on primed canvas panel SOLD

My daughter Amy is dancing for the next 3 days in an Annual Dance Congress. She starts at 8am and only finishes at 5pm with a few breaks in the day. Dancing requires such discipline and commitment and in that way it is a bit like painting .....ones strongest motivator can only be sheer passion!

She arrived home today exhausted, ate a light supper, showered and collapsed into bed! When I went in to kiss her goodnight she was already fast asleep.....ballet shoes abandoned on the floor next to her bed....until tomorrow!

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Morning sky #181

Daily painting #181. 6"x6" oil on primed canvas panel

Whenever I have been away from home, the one thing that really makes me feel like I am HOME again is the beautiful morning sky. Our view first thing in the morning over the east coast is just magnificent and what a wonderful way to start the day! It is especially beautiful at this time of year when the sun has moved slightly more north and the sun rises a little later. The mornings are a little cooler and the sun is not as blistering hot as it rises over the ocean. I am so grateful I am an early morning person....

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Garlic #180

Daily painting #180

180 paintings in 180 days....a milestone to celebrate!

My husband cooked supper tonight. He is the absolute braai* master and loves to stoke up that fire on our veranda, crack open a cold beer and sit poking and feeding the fire. I always tease him and say he must still have a bit of 'cave man' in him....it is his best to sit around a fire and cook. Well tonight he made a chicken potjie (a kind of stew made in a large black African cooking pot and cooked over an open fire)....potjie translated means little pot in Afrikaans. He sorted out all his ingredients, one of which was garlic and had everything chopped and ready....very organized.  It was absolutely delicious and so good to have a night off from cooking....a real treat! I think my husband must have missed me!

*braai -a South African word used to describe cooking over an open flame or hot coals, like a barbecue.

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