Brande Arno Art

5 x 5 inches, Oil on Board The challenge this week for Daily Paintworks is to paint glass.  Well after all I've been through this weekend with my killer migraine, I had to include headache medicine...just plain aspirin, but you'll notice three tablets are at the ready!   The glass is my husband's favorite.  It has a nice aquamarine colored rim and is on the thick side.  I bought it years ago...it's one of a kind like I am...just sayin'

Mother's Day Rose Oil on Paper, 5 x 10 inches $80. This beautiful red rose was one of many handed out by the men of my church.  Better yet, they gathered to cook a fantastic Mother's Day breakfast.  They could open a restaurant! I still have my mom and she lives with us in a studio apartment we made from our Master Bedroom Suite.  She is going to be 84 years old in a few weeks.  In the mail, she received a touching card from her granddaughter, my daughter.  I asked her after she read it to me, if when she was childless for the first seven years of her marriage to my dad, did she ever think she would receive a Mother's Day card.  I know those barren Mother's Days were painful, just as they are for couples with the same problem today.   My mom has a very special collection of cards, letters report cards and school drawings placed lovingly inside a special box.  I've opened that box several times for a trip back in time.  I reme...

Glass Chicken, 4 x 4 inches, oil on board, $ 25. I fell in love with this little guy two years ago when I took my granddaughter to the Corning Glass Museum.  The price was right and he came home with me all wrapped up nicely and tucked inside a gift bag. I decided to paint him yesterday and so enjoyed doing so.  I put some happy flakes around him.  He's been a very good chicken and easy to keep as he's only about 2 inches tall.  - Brande     

Glass, Water and Apple Oil on Board 5 x 7 inches. All this week, I've been working on a very large Black Bear painting, it's almost finished. Yesterday I decided I should take some time to brush up with a daily small painting and so the painting, Glass, Water and Apple was created. I'm happy with the outcome of yesterday's efforts, but it took too long to capture the glass.  I scraped it off three times to re-paint before getting it rendered to look like a glass of water.  I learned again the lesson that less is more.  It only takes one bad brush stroke to ruin a painting full of good ones.   Here is a close up shot with my cell phone.  I finally ordered my 16 megapixel camera and expect it to be delivered early March.   

I love green glass.  I love brand new paint brushes.  This piece of glass is quite old, but it's not green hence the green cloth it rests on.  My brushes need to be replaced, so I lined up two of the worse for this painting. I spent too much time yesterday looking for replacement brushes on-line.  I can't find the exact same series.  Like any artist, I don't want to change what I work with, so not being able to find these brushes causes anxiety.  Well at least I don't have a migraine!