Images

Still Life

Peach
Red Bud, oil on canvas panel, 12 x 6 inches
Applies in Line, oil on canvas panel, 6 x 6 inches by Marlene Lee
Stacked Up Apricots, oil on canvas panel, 6 x 6 inches
Doughnut Shaped Apricot, oil on panel, 6 x 6 inches
Three Apricots, 6 x 6 inches oil on canvas panel Available for purchase at https://www.etsy.com/listing/477022397/small-original-oil-painting-of-apricots?ref=shop_home_active_7
Sliced Orange
Single Cherry
Nectarines Slices and Blueberries, 6 x 8 in. oil on canvas
About to Bud, oil on stretched canvas, 12 x 6 inches by Marlene Lee
Peeled Oranges
Red Flowers in Green Vase, 10 x 8 in., oil, private collection
Yellow & Green Flowers, oil on linen panel, 8 x 10 inches
Still Life with Mango, oil on linen, 10 x 8 inches
Roses, oil on panel, 12 x 12 inches
Three Grapes and a Tangelo

Portraits

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Commissioned portrait of a young girl, graphite and white charcoal on toned paper by Marlene Lee
Commissioned portrait of a young boy in graphite and white charcoal on toned paper by Marlene Lee
Plant Supervisor, oil, 7 x 5 inches by Marlene Lee
No. 36 20Oct2016 oil on canvas paper, 12 x 9 inches
Pigtails, oil on canvas, 10 x 8 inches
Mike, graphite and white charcoal

Gestural People Sketching

Image | | Marlene Lee

I spend Saturday morning at the Community Park where most of the recreational soccer games were played. Just to sketch people…parents watching the games and the young soccer players.

I had been following Jieko on Instagram. Especially her sketches of people. I found by exaggerating the figures I felt I could captured people easier, more gestural.

People sketches w big bodies
Quick people sketching at Community Park, pen sketches in a Moleskine sketchbook, 9.15.18 by Marlene Lee

Below sketch first the soccer players in watercolor. Afterward did a gestural outline of the figures.

Soccer players sketches in watercolor n pen
People sketching in watercolor in Moleskine sketchbook by Marlene Lee

 

More Food Art

Image | | Marlene Lee

I can’t get away from painting fruits. Their colors and shapes are too similar to human skin and shape.

Nectarines and Cherries
Nectarine and Cherries, 6 x 6 inches oil on canvas panel by Marlene Lee

In the “Nectarine and Cherries” I loved how the far right cherry turned out. The reflected light was perfect. So I did another cherry painting. Cherries are so dark almost hard to see other colors but yet their reflective quality make them an interesting subject to paint…at least for me.

Just Brought Cherries
Just Bought Cherries, 6 x 6 inches oil on canvas panel by Marlene Lee
Two Green Onions
Two Green Onions, 6 x 8 inches oil on canvas panel by Marlene Lee

These paintings are part of a body of work for an exhibit at the Pence Gallery in January 2019.