Morning Glories 5x5 acrylic on wood panel

I stopped preparing for an oil painting and just kept on developing the underpainting. I realized that there was no need to go any further so I just added white highlights to it and it is an acrylic and not an oil. E-Mail me at artistjohnwlong@live.com

Lone Tree app 6x6 Oil on wood panel

Corot painted like so many of us, stacking transparent glazes on top of one another from white to medium to dark. But I read that when it came to trees against the sky, Corot had to reverse the process. You paint the dark silhouette of the tree - trunks and leaves- against the previously painted sky, and after the silhouette, you paint in leaves. The last step is painting in the light filtering through the leaves with opaque paint.This is what I have done here with an old tree that I observed for years out of my rear window.

Wheat Stalks oil on wood panel app 9x4

There are not many paintings of stalks of wheat around - lots 0f wheat fields and all that. I know that Thomas Hart Benton painted several in a painting, but Salvadore Dali was the man who painted the definitive wheatstalk masterpiece. I once saw a Life magazine article about Coco Chanel and it showed the painting hanging over her fireplace. In all the books of his work I have never seen it or even read about it.I once went to a museum dedicated to him, in Tampa, and I looked for it there, but it was not. E-mail me at artistjohnwlong@live.com

Lemon Row app 31/2 x 12 Oil on wood panel

This is my second Lemon painting done on an oddly shaped panel left over from cutting up wood for paintings. I have done three of them, as well as other citrus fruits.

High Flying White Bird 5x5 Oil on wood panel

After I named this one I found out it was the title of a well known book, so I rearranged it . Not that titles are important. Max Parrish used to argue with his printers. He felt like the observer would put his own meaning into the painting. The printers won their argument by applying their own titles to them (Enchantment, Twilight, etc.) . Parrish just snickered.

Sweet and Sour 7x5 oil on wood panel

I painted this because of the title. I saw them sitting on the kitchen table and "sweet and sour"was so obvious that I thought of that immediately. There is a fine contrast in their individual shape and color.

Peach and a half 5x5 oil on wood panel

Thank God for the produce department. There is a constantly changing, never ending array of delights to paint. When I am in Krogers, I'm sort of like Toulouse-Lautrec in a house of ill repute.

Tankard app 7x5 oil on wood panel

This is a piece from my collection. I once lived in a worn out old house on a lake in southern Missouri. All the house had going for it were wonderful views, knotty pine walls and a magnificent stacked stone fireplace obviously built by a professional fireplace builder. It had a heavy, long mantelpiece. I started buying copper pieces for the mantel in flea markets. I still have the copper but I no longer have the fireplace. My copper is packed away, waiting for another great fireplace. The fireplace I have now is a gas-log and pristine white thing . I have never cared much for pristine.

Oklahoma Lakeside app 7x6 oil on wood panel

This was a man made lake in Oklahoma and one of my favorite places to sketch. When the lake was low, in the early morning there would be big cat tracks coming down to the water for a drink.I asked people what they could be. Some said panthers, mountain lions, wildcats - they were awfully big for wildcats. contact me at artistjohnwlong@live.com

Ozark Landscape 7x5 oil on wood panel

The sky in this scene has a less stormy aspect than the actual painting. I think it is gray here where I painted it bluer. When the water is not too high it is a small island (i.e. this painting). When it is high these small trees look like they are growing out of the water and is very strange looking. Contact me at artistjohnwlong@live.com

Beer Bottle app. 4x12 oil on wood panel

This is the second beer bottle I have painted. For the first painting I removed the label so I could enjoy the effect of the light showing through the bottle. This time I'm more interested in the beer.

Finial app 5x9 Oil on Wood Panel

This finial comes from my collection.

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Row of Strawberries App 4x12 Oil on wood panel

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary says strawberries are "... an edible red juicy pulpy fruit...". You can say that again.

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Princess 5x6 1/2 oil on wood panel

This kitten is now fully grown. Princess holds conversations with humans. Every morning when I come out of the bedroom she is waiting there chatting away , and pausing for me to answer. She is extraordinary for a cat in that she is sweet natured. After I get dressed and have my cup of coffee she expects to be petted for a while and she returns the attention by rubbing her face on mine and licking my hand and arm. And I never cared for cats.

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Pitcher 5x5 oil on wood panel

This pitcher looks like a large one but in reality it does not stand more than 6 inches tall. It's principle use is pouring gravy on mashed potatoes and as an artists model.

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Three Nectarines App 4x9 oil on wood panel

My grandson called nectarines " glossy peaches". Being absolutely required to maintain a painting every day makes you a better painter. Part of it is that in having just and couple or three hours to get the job done, you simply cannot waste time frittering. For years I have been painting with acrylics as a trompe L'oeil artist on the walls of houses, and loose brush strokes were certainly not desirable. In converting back to oils - a major thing for me - soft edges are effective. When I was going to art school acrylics were barely invented and there was no such thing as an acrylic painting class. Out of necessity as a commercial artist, I learned to use acrylic paint. I knew that I had lost the colors that oils gave but with speed entering the equation there was no wasting time on oils to dry. That is where I also adopted the hard edge . But now I'm back to where I started, and its like a honeymoon with your college sweetheart after spending several years in a marriage made strictly for practical considerations.

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Lakeside View - Oil on Wood Panel 6x6

Jacob van Ruisdael, arguably the greatest landscape painter ever, did not go out in the field to find his painting subject, or so they say. He must have done some out door sketching just to keep from going dry and repeating himself endlessly. Whatever the truth is he left behind some 700 landscapes done entirely in his studio and out of his imagination. I'll be the first to admit to not being a new Ruisdael and probably one reason is that I must at least base it on a sketch of some sort done on the spot. This painting is one of an endless amount of sketchingI did while living on the lake. Some of them are just a few feet apart.

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Three Roses acrylic on Wood Panel app7x6

As a muralist and decorative painter for years I must have painted a million roses. Probably more than any other subject. When I became a daily painter I swore never paint another one. I was trying to get my daily painting going one day, without a shred of inspiration-or even an idea of what to do. I use a glaze technique with oil painting which I begin with an acrylic ground. The roses just came to be, it was not magic nor supernatural, I just did them out of a fit of desperation, it took far less time than I usually spend on an oil painting.

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Eggs in a Cup 5x5 Oil on Wood Panel

I wanted to do something monochromatic and I was running out of this yellow ochre paint so I decided to use what was left of it as my one color. I like to paint glass and I like to paint eggs, so what I did is contrived but I do think it has that "tuxedo" look that I admire from Art Deco.

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Hanging Grapes 6x6 Oil on wood panel

My light box could not accommodate a grape vine so I just hung it from twine. Grapes have a always been popular in art, most old master still lifes have them. There are at least 300 references to grapes in the Bible. And of course they are indispensable to the wine industry.

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Blue Votive Candles app 5x8 1/2 oil on wood panel

Try as I will I have never heard a tale or legend about votive candles, in fact for an item as important to civilization as candles about the only thing I have found concerns the history of making them ( and that is amazingly unchanged over time). Although churches use candles - large columns as well as votives - they are not considered holy. For the most part they are used for praying, either asking for favors or for favors to be granted. "I'll light a candle for you" means "I'll pray for you".

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Donuts 4x9 oil on wood panel

The history of donuts is disputed. According to some historians there was a sea captain who got tired of his wifes pastries being raw in the center so one day he punched out the raw middle, on, of all things, his steering wheel. When he went back home he demonstrated the hole making process to his wife, thus ending forever the raw-in-the-middle pastry problem.There have been some amusing variations reported about this home demonstration on donut-hole making by the Captain for his wife. 'Nuf said.

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