Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Orange Swimsuit

Orange Swimsuit
Orange Swimsuit, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Orange SwimSuit
10x8
canvas mounted on panel(RayMar)

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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On Stage

On Stage
On Stage, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

On stage, a little singing for the holidays a daily painting done in oils.
On Stage
8x6
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Hibiscus on Purple

Hibiscus on Purple
Hibiscus on Purple, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Hibiscus on Purple
11x14
oil on stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 14 in X 11 in (35.6 cm X 27.9 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Birthday Dinner

Birthday Dinner
Birthday Dinner, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Birthday Dinner
10x8
oil on stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Friday, December 26, 2008

Kisses and Cupcake

Kisses and Cupcake
Kisses and Cupcake, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Kisses and Cupcake
6x6 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Sunflowers and Pears

Sunflowers and Pears
Sunflowers and Pears, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Sunflowers and Pears
14x11
oil on stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 11 in X 14 in (27.9 cm X 35.6 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Hot Coco and Marshmallows

Hot Coco and Marshmallows
Hot Coco and Marshmallows, painting by Delilah Smith

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Hot Coco and Marshmallows
6x6 oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)


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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Florida Beach

Florida Beach
Florida Beach, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Florida Beach
6x8
oil on RayMar Panel

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Monday, December 22, 2008

Meditation

Meditation
Meditation, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Meditation
8x6
oil on canvas mounter on hardwood panel (RayMar)

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Pea Pods

The Beginning sketch
adding some shadows


putting in some base colors


The Finished painting


Pea Pods
Pea Pods, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Pea Pods
6x8 oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD


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Pea Pods
Pea Pods, painting by Delilah Smith

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Pea Pods
6x8 oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Friday, December 19, 2008

Christmas Birthday Cupcake

Beging to work on the painting. a quick drawing in sepia paint.
Adding some basic color and value.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Christmas Birthday Cupcake
Christmas Birthday Cupcake, painting by Delilah Smith



About This Painting:
Christmas Birthday Cupcake
for all of you who have December Birthdays, Happy Birthday to you!
6x6 oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas



Thursday, December 18, 2008

Radish and Melon

Radish and Melon
Radish and Melon, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

Watermelon meets Radish, fruits and vegetable painting. I need some green with all of this snow.

Red Radish Pickles:
Here is my red radish pickles recipe. You can mix the radishes with summer baby Kirby cucumber and/or baby eggplant. After 1 to 2 days of waiting - depending on the size of the vegetables that you are using; smaller vegetables are pickled in a shorter period than the larger ones – they are ready to eat.
These pickles area healthy, delicious snack anytime of the day.
1 ½ pounds assorted small summer radishes, thoroughly rinsed and leaves cut off
1 tablespoon sea salt
6 tablespoons rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
¼ cup mirin (sweet cooking wine)
2 teaspoons salt
In a medium bowl combine 2 cups water and1 tablespoon sea salt, and submerge the radishes for 4 hours at room temperature. In a saucepan bring the mirin to a simmer. Add the sugar, 2 teaspoons sea salt, rice vinegar and ¾ cup water and cook the mixture over medium heat until the sugar and salt dissolve, stirring continuously with a spoon. Turn off the heat and cool the liquid. After 4 hours soaking, rinse the radishes briefly under running cold tap water. Drain the radishes well and place them into a pickling pot or a glass or plastic container*. Pour the cooled pickling liquid over the radishes in the pot or container, press the radishes with an inner pressing board, and cover the container with a lid. Refrigerate for 2 days before serving.
*When you are using a glass or plastic container which does not come with a inner pressing board such as the picture with a special pickling pot shows, place a clean flat plate, which is slightly smaller size than the container, on top of the radishes, and place about 2 pounds of weight objects – a food can, large stone or exercise weight – on top of the plate. The weight objects should be placed in a Ziploc bag so that they do not have a direct contact with the pickling liquid.


Radish and Melon
6x8 oil

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Blue Ornament

Blue Ornament
Blue Ornament, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

Glass baubles were first made in Lauscha, Germany by Hans Greiner who according to legend, began hand blowing glass into Christmas decorations because he was unable to afford usual ornaments such as nuts, apples and candy.
Blue Ornament
6x6

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Kiss

Kiss
Kiss, painting by Delilah Smith

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Kiss
6x6
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Monday, December 15, 2008

Sunflower Fields SOLD

Sunflower Fields
Sunflower Fields, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Sunflower Fields
30x40
oil on stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 40 in X 30 in (101.6 cm X 76.2 cm)
Price: $300 USD

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Sleeping Bear Dunes

Sleeping Bear Dunes
Sleeping Bear Dunes, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting: The park is named after a Chippewa legend of the sleeping bear.

According to the legend, an enormous forest fire on the western shore of Lake Michigan drove a mother bear and her two cubs into the lake for shelter, determined to reach the opposite shore. After many miles of swimming, the two cubs lagged behind. When the mother bear reached the shore, she waited on the top of a high bluff. The exhausted cubs drowned in the lake, but the mother bear stayed and waited in hopes that her cubs would finally appear. Impressed by the mother bear's determination and faith, the Great Spirit created two islands (North and South Manitou Island) to commemorate the cubs, and the winds buried the sleeping bear under the sands of the dunes where she waits to this day.

The "bear" was a small tree-covered knoll at the top edge of the bluff that, from the water, had the appearance of a sleeping bear. Wind and erosion have caused the "bear" to be greatly reduced in size over the years. Today only a small remnant remains.


Sleeping Bear Dunes
36x24
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 24 in X 36 in (61 cm X 91.4 cm)
Price: $1700 USD

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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Yellow Ornament SOLD

Yellow Ornament
Yellow Onament, painting by Delilah Smith

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Yellow Ornament
6x6 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Kisses and Hot Coco

Kisses and Hot Coco
Kisses and Hot Coco, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Kisses and Hot Coco with marshmallows
6x8 oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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The 12 Days of Christmas

12 Drummers Drumming
12 Drummers Drumming, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

The ‘twelve drummers drumming" were the twelve points of belief expressed in the Apostles’ Creed: belief in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, that Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, made man, crucified, died and arose on the third day, that he sits at the right hand of the father and will come again, the resurrection of the dead and life everlasting.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Eleven Pipers Piping, The 12 Days of Christmas,abstract flute players

Eleven Pipers Piping,the 12 days of Christmas
Eleven Pipers Piping,the 12 days of Christmas, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

The "eleven pipers piping" refers to the eleven faithful apostles.
Eleven Pipers Piping
8x6 oil

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)

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Ten Lords a Leaping, The 12 Days of Christmas-Sold

Ten Lords a Leaping,The 12 Days of Christmas
Ten Lords a Leaping,The 12 Days of Christmas, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Ten Lords a Leaping
The "ten lords a-leaping" represents the Ten Commandments
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas 8x10

Media: oil
Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm) SOLD

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Monday, December 08, 2008

Nine Ladies Dancing, The 12 days of Christmas

Nine Ladies Dancing
Nine Ladies Dancing, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

The "nine ladies dancing" were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit found in Galatians 5:22-23: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.
Nine Ladies Dancing
8x10
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

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Sunday, December 07, 2008

Eight Maids A Milking, The 12 Days of Christmas

Eight Maids A MIlking, The 12 Days of Christmas
Eight Maids A MIlking, The 12 Days of Christmas, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

The "eight maids a milking " reminded children of the eight beatitudes listed in the Sermon on the Mount.

Eight Maids a Milking
8x6 oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)

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Saturday, December 06, 2008

Seven Swans A Swimming, The 12 Days of Christmas

Seven Swans a Swimming, the 12 days of Christmas
Seven Swans a Swimming, the 12 days of Christmas, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Seven Swans a Swimming
The "seven swans a-swimming" refers to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord.

8x6

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)

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Six Geese a Laying, The 12 Days of Christmas

Six Geese a Laying 12 days of Christmas
Six Geese a Laying 12 days of Christmas, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:On the 6th day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
Six Geese A-layingThe six days of creation that confesses God as Creator and Sustainer of the world (Genesis 1).


Six Geese a Laying
12 days of Christmas
8x6 oil

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)

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Friday, December 05, 2008

Five Gold Rings, The 12 Days of Christmas


Five Gold Rings, The 12 Days of Christmas

About This Painting:


5 golden rings - the first five books of the Old Testament, which give the history of man's fall from grace;
Five Gold Rings
6x8
oil on stretched gallery wrapped canvas

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD


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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Four Calling Birds,The 12 Days of Christmas

Four Calling Birds,12 days of Christmas
Four Calling Birds,12 days of Christmas, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

Four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Four Calling Birds
8x10 oil

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)

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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Three French Hens, The Third Day of Christmas


About This Painting:


Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.



Three French Hens, The Third Day of Christmas
8x6 oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)


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Monday, December 01, 2008

Two Turtle Doves,

Two Turtle Doves
Two Turtle Doves, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

On the 2nd day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Two Turtle DovesThe Old and New Testaments, which together bear witness to God's self-revelation in history and the creation of a people to tell the Story of God to the world.
Two Turtle Doves 2nd in the 12 days of Christmas series.
The secound day of Christmas
6x8 oil on stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)

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Sunday, November 30, 2008

The First Day of Christmas, A Partridge in a Pear Tree

A Partridge in a Pear Tree
A Partridge in a Pear Tree, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
A Partridge in a Pear Tree,The First Day of Christmas
10x8 oil on stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)
Price: $160 USD

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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Christmas Ornaments

Christmas Ornaments
Christmas Ornaments, painting by Delilah Smith

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Christmas Ornaments
6x6
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)

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Friday, November 28, 2008

French Vanilla

French Vanilla
French Vanilla, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

Gee Whiz, What is the difference between vanilla and French Vanilla? The difference is suppose to be added eggs. Do you think they really put eggs in those little things of coffee creamer?
French Vanilla
6x8 oil on canvas mounted on a RayMar panel

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)


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Tangle of Lights

Tangle of Lights
Tangle of Lights, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting: I started putting up the tree and untangling the lights just to find out that half of them didn't work. I do not go to the store on black Friday so I dug into the Christmas of stuff from the past and got them all going again.
Tangle of Light
5x7
oil on hardboard

Media: oil
Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Peppermint Candy

Peppermint Candy
Peppermint Candy, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

One of the most delicious aspects of the holiday season is the many different types of Christmas candy made available. From cordial cherries to Christmas themed treats and candy canes, there is something for even the most discerning tastes. Whether you prefer ribbon candies, hard or gel filled candies, cream filled delights, truffles, almond bark, or specialty chocolates, you’ll find something to appeal to your sweet tooth.The one candy you are sure to see during the Holiday's is Peppermint Candy.


Peppermint Candy
6x6
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas wired and ready to hang.

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Christmas Ornament SOLD

Christmas Ornament
Christmas Ornament, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

Ornaments take many different forms, from a simple round ball to highly artistic designs. Ornaments are almost always reused year after year, rather than purchased annually, and family collections often contain a combination of commercially produced ornaments and decorations created by family members.

I have many from my childhood that I truly treasure. Such collections are often passed on and augmented from generation to generation.It just would not seem like Christmas if I did put up the old special one that hold memories for me.

I am starting a new tradition for my family by giving each of my nieces a Christmas painting of an ornament like the one I have painted here that they can keep and display on a shelf when they are older.Each one will be different and something to remember Auntie Delilah by in years to come.


Christmas Ornament

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)

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Monday, November 24, 2008

Radish All Alone

Radish All Alone
Radish All Alone, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

History of Radishes, they probably originated in China, and made their way across Asia, into the Middle East, and thence into Europe.

Europeans introduced them into Central America around 1500; the British brought them to North America when they settled there.

The Egyptians and Greeks raised and ate Radishes. The Romans raised and ate many more varieties, including some that looked like our common round ones. They were certainly being grown in England by the 1500s, though probably much earlier.

European Radishes, it seems, used to be much larger in general, more like the Asian ones. There is no written record of the small ones until the 1500s.In France, Radishes would be served when you began a meal, to clean your palate and get it ready for the delights that were follow. In the same vein, Ben Johnson suggested eating a Radish before drinking wine.Now there is an idea. I think I will try it.


Radish All Alone
6x6
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD


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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Apple

Apple
Apple, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

The crabapple is the only apple native to North America
Apples come in all shades of reds, greens, yellows.
Two pounds of apples make one 9-inch pie.
Apple blossom is the state flower of Michigan.
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Apples are grown in all 50 states.
Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free.
A medium apples is about 80 calories.
Apples are a great source of the fiber pectin. One apple has five grams of fiber.


The pilgrims planted the first United States apple trees in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The science of apple growing is called pomology.
Apple trees take four to five years to produce their first fruit.
Most apples are still picked by hand in the fall.
Apple varieties range in size from a little larger than a cherry to as large as a grapefruit.
Apples are propagated by two methods: grafting or budding.
The apple tree originated in an area between the Caspian and the Black Sea.
Apples were the favorite fruit of ancient Greeks and Romans.


Apples are a member of the rose family.
Apples harvested from an average tree can fill 20 boxes that weigh 42 pounds each.
25 percent of an apple's volume is air. That is why they float.
The largest apple picked weighed three pounds.
Europeans eat about 46 pounds of apples annually.
Okay enough fact about apples here are the facts on my painting:


Apple
6x6
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas wired and ready to hang, with painted sides

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Three Carrots

Three Carrots
Three Carrots, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

Facts about the Carrot:
The largest carrot ever grown weighed a whopping 18.99 pounds!
According to a poll conducted in 2005, carrots are Great Britain's third favourite vegetable.
The Western carrot emerged in the Netherlands in the fifteenth century, its orange colour making it popular as an emblem of the House of Orange and Dutch independence.

Three Carrots
6x6 oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas
wired and ready to hang.

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Eggplant Top

Eggplant Top
Eggplant Top, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

The still life Eggplant and Company became a wonderful stew. This eggplant top is all that remains, so today I painted it.
Eggplant Top
6x6
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)

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