Caramel Apple Oil Painting

8" x 8" Oil on Stretched Canvas

Caramel Apple

Some foods take on special significance in certain seasons and this is one of those foods. Caramel apples were actually invented in the 1950's by a sales representative for Kraft Foods, Dan Walker. It was a smart marketing move to help sell more of their individually wrapped caramels They were a popular candy at Halloween. Candy apples were invented in 1908 by another candy maker, William W. Kolb, using red cinnamon candy.  

Can you just taste the combination of gooey caramel and the juicy apple? Yum. 

 This painting captures the imagination of your taste buds. You didn't know they had an imagination, did you?

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Coffee Still Life

8" x 8" "Cup Of Joe"  

Will be on display at Il Primo Espresso Cafe in Wichita Feb. 24.

What a week! Two of the paintings I'm working on have been fighting me. Other artists may know what this is like. Tonight I excitedly started putting gentle snow falling in a forest scene and after lots of careful detail I could just have well signed my name with a large green crayon and been done with it! But I'm not giving up! I love the challenge (I tell myself) and will work on it until I'm satisfied. Hope to have it finished before summer!

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Weeds Oil on Canvas by Mary Hughes

10" x 10" Oil on Canvas: Available

This spring was a cold continuation of our long cold winter. The planting season blurred a great deal and I just didn't plant a flower garden this year. So when a gigantic weed started it's takeover of the little garden spot in front of the porch I was temped as I was every year to bend over and pull it out of the soft sandy ground. It would have been so easy. But several times a day I would go out walking my dog and pass the fast growing monstrosity and keep on walking. I wondered at myself. Was I really this lazy that I wouldn't just do as I had every other time? What was holding me back from plucking it out of the ground and tossing it aside? It grew past my waist and I just didn't care. Yes neighborhood I have a huge ugly weed growing in my garden and I "Mary Hughes" am doing NOTHING about it.

Then one day I noticed buds. They didn't look terribly promising but they caught my curiosity and that would give me another excuse to not pluck the giant green monster. By now you've guessed. Huge beautiful yellow flowers opened up and fill the giant plant. I water it now, cut it's blooms, bring them inside, smile whenever I pass it's abundant beauty. My dog now waters it daily. We all do our part.

What is a weed exactly? A plant we don't want, or have low expectations of. One dictionary definition: "Generally, a weed is a plant in an undesired place."

I hope this weed comes back every year!

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Green Apple and Tea Towel

Green Apple and Tea Towel #6 of 6

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This is a nice juicy 8" x 8" oil on canvas. It's a good oversize for a small subject. This is also the final painting of the series of 6.

Hope it's beautiful where you are. It's an incredibly beautiful and warm day here.