All In

If you can believe it, the above painting started out as this:

The motion and directional movement remained, but not much else : )

I'll be showing this painting along with my other abstracts at the Toronto Outdoor Art Expo at Nathan Phillips Square July 4-6th.

36"x36" / acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas / SOLD

5 Year Blogiversary Winner

Thanks to everyone who put in their name for my 5 Year Blogiversary Giveaway! 
The winner is...Beverly Mcnabb! Beverly, please go to my "Flower" photo album on my Facebook page and choose an available 6"x6" painting! I'll message you now with further details. Thanks everyone!

Old apple trees: the beginning

So this is a zoomed in shot of the new painting I'm starting. For years I've driven by these 3 old, twisted apple trees that I've grown quite fond of. It is time to paint their portraits : )
Thanks for all who have entered my 5th Year Blogiversary Giveaway! If you haven't entered yet, you have till Sunday! Good luck!

Work in progress

In a month I will be at the Toronto Outdoor Art Expo at Nathan Phillips Square exhibiting my abstract work! I am basically ready but hoping to complete a couple more paintings for the show. This is one I've been working on. It has taken many turns and I really don't know where it will end up. Always a mystery. Tomorrow I hope to get outside and get to work on some old, twisted apple trees. Stay tuned : )

5 Year Blogiversary Giveaway!

June 8th is my 5th Year Blogiversary and to celebrate I am having a painting giveaway! I truly appreciate all of you for commenting, purchasing and following me on my creative journey. I can't tell you how much all of your encouraging words have meant to me over the years! You have helped spur me on more than you know : )
So there are two different ways to enter. If you follow me on my blog (Eat Drink Paint) through Blogspot please leave a comment. If you follow me on Facebook at Kim Rempel Art, please "like" my page and share. That's it! The winner will be drawn Sunday night, June 8th using Random.org. This giveaway is open to EVERYONE! You do not need to live in Canada. Thanks again and good luck!

A Rose for Barbara - SOLD

Happy Birthday Barbara!

Pucker Up (rhubarb painting) - SOLD

As kids we loved picking rhubarb and dipping the stalks in a bit of sugar and munching away. Sometimes we skipped the sugar. Sour! I can't do it now although I love it stewed, in pies, cakes and muffins. Mmmmm : )
6"x6" / oil on canvas 

Tomato seedling

A German Red Stripe to be precise! A woman I know has a wonderful sale each spring with an impressive variety of organic heirloom tomato plants. I have zero luck with tomatoes so I gave it to my Mother-in-law : )
6"x6" / oil on canvas / $99 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Just dandy - SOLD

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. ~Andrew Mason

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878

6"x6" / oil on panel 

Pop

So gorgeous when they spring open!

6"x6" / oil on canvas / $99 (includes free shipping worldwide)

A place in my heart - SOLD

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size. 

~Gertrude S. Wister
6"x6" / oil on canvas 

Contradictions - SOLD

A flower's appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect. 
~Terri Guillemets
6"x6" / oil on canvas / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Peek-a-boo - SOLD

One of my kids mentioned he liked how the grape hyacinths were peeking out from behind the pansies. Instant title : )
6"x6" / oil on canvas

Tulip Bowl - SOLD

I'm in my glory with all these flowers. I remember my grandma having a bowl like this in which she would float roses. I loved that as a kid. And they had such a lovely scent. Nice memories.

6"x6" / oil on canvas / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Yellow pansies - SOLD

This completes my pansies in the garden trio. Tomorrow - tulips!
6"x6" / oil on canvas / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Crimson Pansies - SOLD

Today's pansies - crimson!

6"x6" / oil on canvas / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Purple pansies - SOLD

Today I'm starting a series of three pansy paintings, all flowering masses planted in my garden. Today, purple!
6"x6" / oil on canvas / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Innocence - SOLD

This just reminds me of all things young, new and innocent. A feeling always nice to remember.
6"x6" / oil on canvas / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

We're all in this together - SOLD

So the tulips from yesterday opened further and looked too lush not to paint again! Can we get a hurray for spring flowers? : )

6"x6" / oil on canvas / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Tulip Splendor - SOLD

Tulips from my garden. All so different but they look sweet crammed into a simple mason jar. Yesterday I posted my first try at a little video (Yes. I'm on a learning curve and the next one will be much improved :) but apparently the clip did not appear to the people who receive my posts directly to their inbox. So I'm trying once more. p.s. If' you'd like to receive my daily posts in your inbox, please go to my blog and you will see instructions on the top right hand column. Happy Friday!

6"x6" / oil on canvas / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

The little things (SOLD) + a tiny 14 second video

...make me happy. Here are a few grape hyacinths picked from the garden.
6"x6" / oil on canvas / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

 
Today I was in my studio doing a painting for tomorrow, and I decided to take a few pictures of the piece in progress. Then I thought I would try stringing them all together to make a tiny video. So here it is. It was my first attempt at using iMovie and thanks to my son for helping me. After doing this I can see how I should really make a video, but it was a tiny project for fun.

Opposites Attract - SOLD

Reaching for titles here. But you can kind of see it: the purple and yellow look so snappy together and they're opposites (on the colour wheel : ). Yes? Well, it's better than numbering them. Or actually, maybe that's the way to go. Anyhow...here is today's offering!
6"x6" / oil on canvas / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Garden Bouquet - SOLD

Forsythia and pansies from my garden. I love spring!

6"x6" / oil on canvas

Pansies - SOLD

Pansies! Who doesn't love pansies? So many colour combos, bright, cheery...they always make me smile!

6"x6" / oil on canvas / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

 

Daffodils and tulip

Happy Mother's Day!

6"x6" / oil on archival canvas panel / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Sun-kissed

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, 

hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.

~Andre Gide

6"x6" / oil on archival canvas panel / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Spent

They're also fun to paint when they're not so perfect : )
6"x6" / oil on archival canvas panel / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Side by side

6"x6" / oil on archival canvas panel / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Opening

Today's offering. 

Have a wonderful day!

6"x6" / oil on archival canvas panel / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Cheery blooms

Daffodils and an early tulip from my garden. Enjoy!

6"x6" / oil on archival panel / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Garden daffodils

Cuttings from my garden. Did I mention how happy I am to see the flowers blooming? You'll be seeing these all week : )
p.s. if you happen to be looking for something for Mother's Day, let me know. I'm painting flowers daily!
6"x6" / oil on archival panel / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Good morning

The daffodils are blooming in my garden right now. Such a bright burst of colour after a very white winter!

"Good morning", 6"x6", oil on archival panel, $100 (includes free shipping worldwide)

Mad with joy

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. 

~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat
"Sunny blooms" / 6"x6" / oil on archival panel / $100 (includes free shipping worldwide) 

Good for the soul - SOLD

If you are new to my blog, you may wonder if you've got the right post : ).  For some time now I've been concentrating on abstract but I began as a plein air painter (painting the landscape outdoors) and then became a "daily painter" in 2009 (where I created small oil paintings daily and posted them to my blog) and for the past couple of years  I've been exploring abstract.
Due to an upcoming group order I had to build up my inventory of small works. So here is the first one of what will be a good month of daily painting. I enjoyed painting in this format again although the thinner smell got to me. Ick.
Happy Thursday!