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"Old Flow Blue Cream Pitcher and Grapes" Original Oil Painting on Canvas Daily Paintings



This is an old cream pitcher I found in a three story Victorian House in Topeka Kansas many years ago. The grapes are just fun to paint!

5" x 7" Original Oil Painting on Canvas

Daily Paintings By Mary Ashley

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"Red Pear on Flow Blue Plate" Original Oil Daily Painting

 

The red pears are very good this year and will keep for a while in the vegi draw. I am so happy when I find the old blue and white dishes at the tag sales.



 

5" x 7" Original Oil Painting on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Red Plum Black Plum" Original Oil Daily Painting by Ashley



 

My last two plums! I can't find any more in the markets here! So next year I am going to plant my own plum tree.

 

4" x 5" Original Oil Painting on Canvas Daily Paintings By Mary Ashley

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"Old Bottle of Bone Buttons" Original Oil Daily Painting Still Life by Ashley

 

I have collected old buttons most of my life and favor the buttons from the civil war era. Bone buttons were hand carved from 1850 to 1920's. The bottle is a small, very worn Borden's cream bottle. I love the way the the buttons reflect up on the inside of the old scratched glass.

 



5" x 7" Original Oil Painting on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

"Antique Bottles Vines and Berries" Original Oil Daily Painting by Ashley

 

The apothecary and medicine bottles are from a old drugstore that had the lunch counter. It closed here years ago. I like to paint them in stark light  with living plants and natural elements found in the Forrest here.


10" x 8" Original Oil Painting on Canvas Daily Paintings By Mary Ashley

 

"Red Grapes on Flow Blue Plate" Original Oil Daily Painting

 

Red grapes are just about my favorite as is this plate, an old flow blue Phoenix bird design that goes with the tea cup I paint quite often.

 



5" x 7" Original Oil Painting on Canvas Daily Paintings By Mary Ashley

 

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"Red Onions" Original Oil Daily Painting Still Life



 

I bought the onions at the local farmers market with the intentions of making chili! But when I got them home they looked so radiant in the sun I just had to paint them first. Now they are ready for supper!

5x7" Original Oil Painting

By Mary Ashley

 

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"3 Arkansas Persimmons" Original Oil Daily Painting by Ashley

 

I have to admit that the persimmons are still hanging on to the trees here which gives me another opportunity to paint them! Their leaves are starting to change though and fall is here, albeit a rather warm season still.

 

5" x 7" Original Oil Painting on Canvas

Daily Paintings By Mary Ashley

 

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"Arkansas Black Walnuts" Original Daily Paintings by Ashley



 

The last of the walnuts are being shelled and cracked. My family always dried them in the hull and harvested the nuts all winter. But they don't stay this pretty color of green very long! This is an 8x10" that I have had so many requests for.

8" x 10" Original Oil Painting on Canvas

Daily Paintings By Mary Ashley

 

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"Owl Feather" Original Daily Painting by Mary Ashley

 

We set outside quite early in the mornings and have coffee. It was still dark this particular morning when we heard this loud swish of wings and could see the shadow of a very large bird fly over our heads. Later when it was daylight walking in the yard there on the ground was this wonderful feather! I will probably paint it again, it's just so fascinating.

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"Sumac Fruit of Fall" Original Daily Painting Oil on Canvas





 

Sumacs are shubs and small trees that can reach a height of 3 to 8 ft. They form dense clusters of reddish druplets called sumac bobs. The dried spicy species are ground to produce a tangy crimson spice that has a tart citrus or lemony tast as this does. They are very striking this time of year.

 

Original 5x7" Oil Painting

by Mary Ashley

 

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"Emty Nest with Wild Rose Hips" Original oil Daily Painting by Ashley

 

I walked the forrest and found the nest and such a neat little builder even has a feather built into it. The berries I believe are wild rose hips.



8" x 10" Original Oil Painting on Canvas

Daily Paintings By Mary Ashley

 

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"Pomegranate and Bottle of Wine" Original Oil on Canvas Daily Painting





 

The pomegranates are so beautiful right now! There is a bottle of wine in the back ground with this and the pomegranate's reflection showing from the back.

 

5" x 7" Original Oil Painting on Canvas

Daily Paintings By Mary Ashley

 

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"Wild Arkansas Persimmons" Original Oil Daily Painting by Ashley

 

I have lots of these persimmons now and the painting of
them is done and so are they! When they ripen and start to shrivel they get rather unpleasant to look at.

5" x 7" Oil on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Flow Blue Cream Pitcher and Plum" Original Oil Daily Painting by Ashley

 

This cream pitcher I have painted in still life settings before and it does get easier! I have painted the top on it in this one. and the plums are just fun!

 

5" x 7" Oil on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Arkansas Wild Persimmon" Original Oil Painting

They grow everywhere here and are small, most no larger than a half dollar as this one, but so sweet when ripe. This is a small study of the elusive transition of colors of this small fruit.​ Once they are picked they change very fast!

 

3" x 4" Original Oil Painting

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Lambs Ear and Nasturtiums" Original oil Painting

I have been doing some fall clearing in the garden and this Lambs Ear is just so wonderful in color and texture I had to put it in a painting. The Nasturtiums are doing great in the crisp fall days we are having right now.
 

7" x 5" Original Oil on Canvas
By Mary Ashley

"Three Autumn Plums" Original Oil Painting on Canvas

 

The last of the plums from the farmers market on the square. But now we have the fall harvest coming in! It's going to be a good one this Saturday!

Original Oil Painting on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Fall Acorns with Leaves" Original Oil Painting

The fall weather is here finally and really enjoying it. These are new acorns on the Oak trees right now. I never realized they were this color of green this time of the year. But I never really looked at them on the trees before!

5" x 7" Original Oil Painting on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

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"Red Pear with Acorn" Original Oil Painting by Mary Ashley

 

The Red pears are so beautiful and so Red this year! It made me look twice when I saw them at the farmers market. The acorn will be a new Oak Tree, next year!

 

7" x 5" Oil on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Arkansas Fall Black Walnuts" Original Oil Painting by Mary Ashley

 

 

Love these black walnuts, although they are tedious to
get out of the shell. I can remember cracking them for mom to do the holiday
baking of cookies, cakes and breads. Yummm!

 

5" x 7" Oil on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Red & Black Grapes with Old Blue Pottery Bowl" Original Oil Painting

The grapes are in season now and very plentiful! This is the 2nd painting with the old pottery bowl that I dug up when gardening in my back yard. It has drippy glaze and beautiful Turquoise blue colors.

 

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"2 Pears and Autumn Leaves" Original Oil Painting

These beautiful Pears are from an old farm orchard just down the road from me and the leaves well they are everywhere! Come and get em! I have been told that they are American Anjou Green Pear.

8"x10" Original Oil Painting on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Old Bottles in a Box" Trompe-l'oeil

This is some of my old bottles set in a wood box and painted in Trompe-l'œil (French for "Deceive the eye"). It was a fun painting and I may try it again.

Original Oil Painting on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

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"2 Plums and a Pear" Original Oil Painting by M Ashley

This Pear is from an old farm orchard just down the road from me and are they ever sweet! The plums are from the farmers market. The trees are loaded this season!

5x7" Original Oil Painting on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

"Red Plum with Blue Pottery Bowl" Original Oil Painting

 

This Pear is from an old farm orchard just down the road from me and are they ever sweet! The trees are loaded this season! The plums are from the farmers market.

5x7" Original Oil Painting on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Glass of Beer with Peanuts" Original Oil Painting

It's been a Great summer now its time for Football Season!! I had fun painting this glass of beer. You just try to get that foam to stay put!

7x5 Original Oil Painting on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

 

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"The Preacher's Son"

I have been wanting to do a portrait of this fellow for a while and here he is. I used a limited palette of Yellow Ocher, Vermillion, Burnt Sienna, French Ultramarine, Raw umber, Ivory Black, and Titanium White. The photo is a old black and white so I had to make up the colors, but the simplified palette made it a lot easier!

10x8" Original Oil on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Sweet Nardello Italian Heirloom Pepper #1" Original Oil Painting

 

This is the last of my peppers. I hope to be able to get some more at the farmers market tomorrow but they go very fast when they show up.

5x7" Original Oil Painting

By Mary Ashley

 



"Glass of Wine, Bread, and an Apple" Old World Style Original Oil Painting

 

The apples are ripening here right now and make a delicious "summer in the country" lunch. This is the combo we would take to the hills in Sonoma California for the week ends accept we would stop at that charming little store on the square and get some great cheese to go with!

7x5" Original Oil on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

"Emty Nest, Boston Ivy and Robin's Egg" Original Oil Painting

This is a nest I have painted before. I found the Robin's egg shell the other day under a tree and have added it along with some of my Boston Ivy on the side of the house. I love all the shades of green it has right now.

5" x 7" Oil on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

"Sunflowers in Glass of Water"

The Sunflowers are from my garden. They make me happy when I see the birds already checking them out!

7x5" Original Oil on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Sweet Nardello Italian Heirloom Peppers"

Fresh from the Farmer's Market on the square early Saturday morning were these wonderful peppers all tangled up in a basket! I couldn't make up my mind which ones to take home! And are they ever tasty.

 

5" x 7" Original Oil on Canvas Board

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Leaf with Dew Drops"

 

This is a leaf of the Nasturtiums from my garden. In early morning I have coffee on the patio in the flower garden. This particular morning was so humid there was a heavy fog and dew drops on every plant! The nasturtium leaves hold the dew so beautifully, they look magical! Actually they look a lot like a water lily. This one is about 3" across.

 

5x7" Original Oil Painting

By Mary Ashley

 

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The Nasturtiums from my garden. They are doing very well this year with the cooler than average summer and lots of rain!

 

5" x 7" Original Oil on Canvas

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Habanero Peppers" HOT! HOT! HOT!

Found these beauties at the local Farmers Market on the square here. The habanero is the hottest chile pepper you'll find in your local grocery stores, and they are very, very hot. Unripe habaneros are green, but the color at maturity varies. Common colors are orange and red, but white, brown, and pink are also seen.

5"X7" Original Oil Painting on Canvas Board

By Mary Ashley

"Old Bottles, Books and The Key"

The found things on my book shelf keep it interesting and occasionally I look for them for my still life paintings. Sometimes I paint whats been there the longest or what peaks my interest the most at the moment. The old key I've had for a while and just rediscovered.

8x10" Oil on Canvas Board
By Mary Ashley 



"Farmer's Cottage Garden Tomatoes"

 

This painting is of Tomatoes in all stages of growth to the canning jar! This is one of my old jars with the glass lined zinc lid.

 

8x10" Original Oil Painting by Mary Ashley

 

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"Peach with Flow Blue Cream Pitcher"

 

This is a Georgia Peach from the farmers market on the square here. The creamer is a garage sale find and setting on an old marble top table. These two together were just a pleasure to paint.

 

5x7" Original Oil Painting

by Mary Ashley

 

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"Fresh Farmer's Market Ear of Corn"

 

Farmer's Market corn is so beautiful right now. I was going to do a large painting of it but thought I would try it on the small scale first. Those little kernles of corn were making me crazy so this is it!

 

8x10" Original on Canvas Board

By Mary Ashley

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"Grape Tomatoes with Old Pottery Bottle" Old World Style Oil Painting

 

The tomatoes in the garden are plentiful and beautiful this year. I will be canning some of these or freezing them would be quicker! The old pottery Bottle is a Saki bottle found in San Francisco in old China Town. I have found that I have to paint the tomatoes same day because they change color from green to red the same day and the stems shrivel to nothing!

 

8x10" Original on Canvas Board

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Farmer's Market Radish" Original Old World Style Oil Painting

 

Found the Radishes at the local Saturday farmer's market here. They were so beautiful shining in the morning sun, they begged to be painted.

 

10" x 8" Oil on Canvas board

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Tomatoes with Drip Glazed Pottery Teabowl"

 

I'm getting the first tomatoes from my garden ripening on the vine! The bowl is a hand made Pottery teabowl from Berry Jepson in Kansas.

6" x 8" Original Oil Painting on Canvas Board

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Hydrangeas Old World Style" Originall Oil Painting

 

The Hygrangeas this year are
stunning! They are covered in large balls of White and Green. This Hygrangea is
called Limelight.

 

8" x 10" Original Oil Painting on Canvas Board

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Antique Spice Jar with a Bosc Pear"

 

This is mom's old spice jar with a Bosc pear. I do try to paint every day but the usual everyday chores just keep piling up. I think you know what I mean!!

 

10" x 8" Original Oil Painting on Canvas Board

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Egg Under Glass"

The egg is a special one I have cherished for a long time. Actually it is petrified egg or may just be a rock. It sets on my book shelf under the glass dome of mystery!

Original 8x10" oil painting

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Steaming Cup of Tea and a Rose"

 

My blue and white tea cup gets another portrait with a favorite Rose.

8x10" Oil Painting by Mary Ashley

 



"Cherries" Original Oil Painting

 

Red Ripe ​Cherries are right off the tree! The first of my paintings of them. They are as much fun to paint as glass.

 

5" x 7" Oil Painting on Canvas Board

By Mary Ashley

 

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"Peonies in the Window"

 

This is a vase of my last Peonies in the front window. They still smell as sweet as the day I picked them!

Original 6x6" Oil Painting

By Mary Ashley