Watercolor in large Moleskine watercolor notebook
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This week’s Everyday Matters challenge is to paint something sweet. I’ve been trying to cut down on eating sweet things (to lose the few pounds I put on from spending lots of time at art and not enough at the gym). So…no candy, cookies or (my favorite) donuts around here to paint. But I do have a jar of brown sugar for my oatmeal and that’s what I’ve painted. I drew it loosely, applied a bit of masking with a toothpick and a little brush and then started painting. It went really quickly, only taking about an hour, and I’m happy to say that painting it was more fun than eating a plate of sweets!
Jana Bouc, Artist 
21 replies on “Brown Sugar Jar (EDM 96 – Something Sweet)”
Wow, this is wonderful, lovely colours! I especially like the lettering in the glass.
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Very pretty Jana – the medium is perfectly suited to the subject and you’ve really captured the transparency/solidity of the jar. But you have dealt a death blow to my excuse that I have to go out and buy some sweets to paint them!
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What a wonderful painting. You’ve really caught the subject matter beautifully
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I LOVE this painting! I am struggling so much to get reflections and you have captured them perfectly! I definitely need to try the masking fluid – but I have a feeling the solution won’t be that easy for me.
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This knocks my socks off — I love the reflections and the lettering and the different colors in the sugar. You are great with this type of subject!
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Funny to tell you that a jar of brown sugar is “beautiful” this is! Makes me want to try painting some glass! I love the colors that you used! I think it is very cool that it isn’t one more candy or donut or peice of cake, too.
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INCREDIBLE!!! I ADORE THE LOOSENESS OF IT, THE WAY THE COLORS ARE SO RICH AND REAL AND SO ‘BROWN SUGARY’!!! I too am attempting to cut back on sweets — but am failing miserably! This artwork and no gymwork — I blame it all on that! LOL
GLORIOUS work, mia cara!!!! LOVE IT!
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I love this painting….great work on the reflections in the glass, and the color changes in the sugar make it look like exactly what it is. I had thought about painting our plastic bag of brown sugar, but I think you’ve set the gold standard now for brown sugar paintings and I’ll have to look somewhere else!!—Carol
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Gorgeous painting! The reflections and modeling are just perfect! Love the sweetness of it.
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This is such a pleasing painting – very nicely done. I have also been enjoying your postings on your foray into printmaking…the lantern looks great with the color and loved the persimmon!
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This is great. Love the sugar through the glass. Well done!
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Wow Jana! Everytime I visit your blog there’s something delectable … Love how the glass jar looks so wonderfully like A GLASS JAR! I have yet to master the art of painting transparent/translucent objects.
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Great job…love the way the glass looks and the different kinds of brown in the brown sugar….
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Great Jana. I love the colours you used on this piece and how you managed to show the lettering on the jar – now that’s amazing!
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good job on this, the glass lettering on the jar is really nice. I love those sorts of jars, I keep my teabags in one.
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Jana, I’m speechless. It’s stunning. You should be so proud. WOW!
If I didn’t have little ones, I’d definitely opt out of the enforced shopping madness. As it is, we try to keep things as lowkey as possible. I have friends who send out new year’s letters reflecting on the past year. It’s so nice to receive them when I have more time to READ them! I think I’ll follow their, and your, example.
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I would find this an impossible challenge so I’m especially impressed that you not only did this so beautifully but in an hour! bravo!
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Superb job on the glass!! And in all, a wonderfully successful sketch—oh, if we could always get things quickly and loosely the way you’ve done here!
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Very expressive — even the pooch!
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amazing – how you’ve caught the granualiness of the sugar inside the reflective, shininess of the jar – and the raised texture of the glass writing – bravo
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this, i like.
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