"Chocolate, Vanilla, Chocolate" by Lesley Spanos. Oil on diagonal 6 x 6" Gessobord panel. Copyright ©2009, all rights reserved. Our Different Strokes From Different Folks challenge subject this week is cupcakes. Now, I love cupcakes, even if I don’t eat them. In fact, I firmly believe...

"Kalifornia Roll" by Lesley Spanos. 12 x 9" oil painting on panel. Copyright ©2009 Lesley Spanos, all rights reserved. A California roll is to sushi what Tex-Mex food is to Mexican cuisine – a Western adaptation of a traditional food using local ingredients more suited to the American...

"The Girls" by Lesley Spanos. Oil painting on 14 x 8" wood panel. © Copyright 2009 Lesley Spanos, all rights reserved. I can’t say that “Sex and the City” has ever been one of my favorite television shows. I’ve laughed at times – sometimes really hard –...

"Chocolate Mousse Heart Cake" by Lesley Spanos. Oil painting on 5 x 5" Gessobord. Copyright ©2009 Lesley Spanos, all rights reserved. So for Valentine’s Day, I watched my husband eat cake. We searched several bakeries to find just the right cake. Something oooey-goooey and yummy...

"Tiramisu" by Lesley Spanos. Oil painting on 5 x 5" canvas panel. Copyright ©2009, all rights reserved. My husband tells me he’s “on board 100%” with the idea of me painting more desserts. He gets to eat them, I get to photograph and paint them. Years ago, it would...

"Pastry #1" by Lesley Spanos. 5 x 5" oil and acrylic painting on canvas panel. ©2009, all rights reserved. After the problems I had with the last painting, I needed a small victory, so I pulled out some photos I took over the weekend. This is a chocolate almond pastry my husband had for...

"Oh, My Darlin'" Oil painting of a peeled Clementine on 5 x 5" panel by Lesley Spanos. ©Copyright 2009, all rights reserved. It’s that time again – Virtual Sketch Date time! I had an awesome time with last month’s challenge, so here we are again. This month’s...

"Gogh All The Way," an oil painting of boots by Lesley Spanos. ©2008, all rights reserved. “Gogh All The Way” 12 x 9 oil painting on Raymar canvas panel When I saw Karin Jurick’s photo for this week’s Different Strokes challenge, I saw a modern version of Vincent van...

"Favorite Things," an oil painting by Lesley Spanos. © 2008, all rights reserved. “Favorite Things” Oil painting on hardboard panel, 11 x 14″ A few of artist Karen Jurick’s favorite things. This was painted from her photo on her weekly artist’s challenge, Different...

An oil painting of minature white pumpkins by Lesley Spanos, copyright 2008. “Shhhh! She’s coming!” 8 x 6″ oil painting on Raymar archival panel When I saw Karin Jurick’s photo on this week’s Different Strokes From Different Folks challenge, the image that stuck in...

“Red Bell Peppers at the Farmer’s Market” Oil on Raymar canvas panel, 6 x 8″ These red bell peppers were catching some sun at the local farmer’s market.