12-31-11. Periodic table building blocks from ThinkGeek.

12-30-11. The Black Forest.

12-29-11. A grizzly bear family in Yellowstone.

12-28-11. A palm tree that we saw in Maui during our honeymoon.

12-27-11. A Room with a Moose from Invader Zim.

12-26-11. "Crosstown Superball Wall Map", a 2009 painting by Jeremy Dickinson.

12-25-11. A teacup of egg nog for Christmas.

12-24-11. "Flower Girl", a 2009 painting by Margaret Bowland.

12-23-11. Artichoke II, a 2010 print by Sarah Graham.

12-22-11. A lumberjack.

12-21-11. Buttons.

12-20-11. Potato salad.

12-19-11. One of our frying pans.

Violet Borage and Petrels

Violet Borage and Petrels (20x24in. oil painting)

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This painting is an expressionistic rendering of petrels (seabirds) flying over a backdrop of borage flowers. The birds and flowers were randomly selected by using image-net.org. The painting began as a field of stamped five-pointed stars. Parts of these are still visible. My goal for this painting was to develop a harmonious composition from the random elements.

12-18-11. An oasis, as seen in the current issue of The New Yorker.

12-17-11. The Burt's Bees Lip Shimmer that I use instead of lipstick.

12-16-11. Mistletoe, a parasite for Christmas.

12-15-11. A car in a dumpster.

12-14-11. A "fainting" goat.

12-13-11. Rota Fortunae, or wheel of fortune.

12-12-11. One of my Dad's turntables.

12-11-11. My least favorite food is chitterlings.

12-10-11. A Pil Bredahl water jug.

12-09-11. A beetle.

12-08-11. A director's chair.

12-07-11. A bowl of pudding.

12-06-11. Prom dress in a 1961 photo by Richard G. Gill (no relation).

12-05-11. Dumplings.

12-04-11. Harold's homemade pickles.

12-03-11. A compound fracture (just an x-ray).

12-02-11. A secret door.

12-01-11. A sardine tin.

11-30-11. A scorpion being studied in a classroom.

11-29-11. Detail from a print in Masami Teraoka's 1993 Hawaii Snorkel series.

11-28-11. The clock tower at the Starbucks headquarters in Seattle.

11-27-11. Sock monkey butt.

11-26-11. The FCCI building in an office park that I use as a landmark on the way home from Indianapolis.

11-25-11. Chocolate truffles from Trader Joe's (not that great).

11-24-11. A Q-tip.

11-23-11. Some of our cutlery.

11-22-11. Baby with a golf ball.

11-21-11. Crab apple.

11-20-11. Man with an eye patch.

11-19-11. My computer.

11-18-11. Toast for the ham sandwich I had for lunch today.

11-17-11. Metal & mosaic butterfly by Aphrodite Liti.

11-16-11. A power tool from our garage.

11-15-11. Bird's nests in a 2010 painting by David Kroll.

11-14-11. Our boom box.

Shadow Shadow 2 [SOLD]

"Shadow Shadow 2", oil on canvas, 18x24 in. For sale on Etsy.

This is my second painting about the word "shadow". Find out more about the first painting (which has been sold) at this link: http://kgillart.blogspot.com/2011/10/406-green-shadow-shadow-shadow.html I included the chocolate shadow cake that I baked from scratch, and, this time, the CD case for Endtroducing... by DJ Shadow. The Carmel Clay Public Library sticker is visible on the CD case.