Cheryl Wilson

Thursday, August 7, 2025

636 Persimmon Pile Up

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 Persimmon Pile Up oil on canvas 8x16"      These are the same persimmons as in Fuyu Family, but it is not the same painting.      I lo...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

641 Cut Bartletts

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Cut Bartletts oil on canvas 9x12" $238      Paint them whole or sliced, lying down or standing up straight, with stems or without. Pear...
Monday, November 11, 2024

647 Oregon Morning

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Oregon Morning oil on canvas 9x12" $270        The morning light hit the low hills across the meadow, making them glow. Only a few minu...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

646 Hwy 20 Hill

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Hwy 20 Hill oil on canvas 12x12" $360      I am studying landscapes. Not strong in this department.      It is fun though to go on fiel...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

645 Mendocino Cliff

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Mendocino Cliff oil on canvas 12x12" $360      I am enjoying learning about Tonalism, so I am trying my hand at it. I hope to do more b...
Friday, May 3, 2024

642 Resting Deer

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  Resting Deer oil on canvas 16x12" $422      I looked out and there she was under my window, looking right at me. She hung around whil...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

638 Cherry Bowl

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 Cherry Bowl oil on canvas 8x8" $140      This is the final painting of last summer's cherries. I painted this one on an old canvas...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

639 Bartlett Pears

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Bartlett Pears 12x9" oil on canvas $238      Pears have been a favorite subject of mine since the very beginning of my painting endeavo...
Friday, November 24, 2023

637 Ginkgo

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Ginkgo oil on canvas 9x12" $240      "I found this on the web: ' The seed of the Ginkgo is used for food, especially soup, the...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Molly Meets the Reindeer

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 Molly Meets the Reindeer Colored Pencil on Paper about 8x10" NFS      Around the same time I made my little book, But Not So , I drew ...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

635 Fuyu Family

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 Fuyu Family oil on canvas 6x18" $166      Little orange fruits! I love to paint them. I was so happy to find these at Trader Joe's...
Friday, November 3, 2023

634 Cameo Crisp

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Cameo Crisp oil on canvas 8x10" $176      When I cut into this apple for lunch, I gasped at the beauty of the colors in its glistening ...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

632 Murray

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  Murray oil on canvas 8x8" $140      When I began Murray (who lives with Georgette and Elizabeth), I thought maybe I would not finish ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

633 Cherries Three

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Cherries Three oil on canvas 6x18" $166      Before I ate the cherries, I poured them out on the table and let them fall where they may...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

631 Spilled Cherries Closeup

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Spilled Cherries Closeup oil on canvas 12x9" $238      Summer fruit always yields new paintings. And then you eat.      Fall is here. I...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

630 Georgette

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Georgette oil on canvas 8x8" $140      Georgette belongs to my friend Elizabeth who I met through Zentangle. We get together regularly ...
Friday, August 25, 2023

629 Crayons

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  Crayons oil on canvas 8x8" $140      This is the box of crayons I keep in my studio with all my art supplies. They are fun to use and...
Wednesday, August 2, 2023

628 Ball and the Jacks

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Ball and the Jacks oil on canvas 8x8" $140      As a little girl I loved playing jacks, playing with others, playing alone. My jacks of...
Friday, June 2, 2023

623 Two Red Camellias

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Two Red Camellias oil on canvas 10x8" $176      It looks like flowers will defeat me, and still I attempt to paint them. When I see the...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

621 Simone

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  Simone oil on canvas 6x6" $100      Simone Simon, such a pretty one. I liked her in Cat People, a scary and psychologically interesti...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

607 Deer Gaze

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 Deer Gaze oil on canvas 6x12" $158      Although the whole family of deer were in the yard, lying about, they would not let me get clo...
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Thursday, August 25, 2022

611 California Quail

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California Quail oil on canvas 6x6" $80 “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - How Emily Dickinson expressed th...
Monday, August 22, 2022

610 Satsuma Branch

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 Satsuma Branch Oil on Canvas 13x8" $230      This branch with one satsuma was hanging over the edge of the table. The setup had severa...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

608 Allison's Kitty

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Allison's Kitty Oil on Canvas 6x6 $80      I love cats and love to paint them. This one belongs to Allison and is so very black. It was ...
Monday, November 1, 2021

603 Milo

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  Milo oil on canvas 24x18" $855      I tried painting this image of Milo, who lives at Animal Ark in Reno, many months ago, but I was ...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

601 Carmen M

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 Carmen M oil on canvas 6x6" $100      Painting teeth in a portrait is not recommended. But how can I paint Carmen without her big smil...
Friday, October 15, 2021

600 Brooks

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  Brooks oil on canvas 6x6" $100      This time I painted Louise with a slightly different limited palette: chromatic black, cad red li...
Monday, October 4, 2021

599 Veronica

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  Veronica oil on canvas 6x6 $100      Veronica Lake, of the Peek-a-Boo hairdo, always seemed so sweet and delicate. She was actually blonde...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

598 Brother Squirrel

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Brother Squirrel oil on canvas 8x10" $176      This squirrel has a cute little face all full of such innocence, but his hands have dang...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

596 Pink Carnations

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 Pink Carnations Oil on Canvas 8x10" $176      If I said it took two weeks to paint this little gourd full of carnations, no one would ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

But Not So

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  But Not So Children's Picture Book 6x8" 28 pages $17.99      So many years ago the idea for this came to me and I have kept it al...
Friday, June 11, 2021

595 Jar of Camellias

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 Jar of Camellias oil on canvas 10x8" $176      More camellias. Last spring was good for them. Looking forward to next spring, hoping t...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

594 Pink Cam

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 Pink Cam oil on canvas 10x8" $176      I love pink flowers. Red makes a bigger statement, but pink is my favorite, no question.      I...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

589 Teacup with Rose

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Teacup with Rose oil on canvas 8x10 $176      Roses do not last long in my neighborhood because the deer just love them. This little bush gr...

593 Yellow Zin

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Yellow Zin oil on canvas 8x10" $176      What a lovely winter day with lots of snow for the puppy to play in! This zinnia is from last ...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

592 Monte and Keely

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 Monte and Keely oil on canvas 12x12" NFS      How hard it is to lose a loved one. When our yellow lab Keely left us, we had Monte, a p...
Friday, July 10, 2020

591 Kitchen Sunflowers

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Kitchen Sunflowers oil on canvas 11x14" $338      These big ol' sunflowers were a gift from friends to warm my new ki...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

590 Fox Squirrel

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Fox Squirrel oil on canvas 8x10" $176      When we moved to town, we made a new friend, the fox squirrel. Where we lived...
Saturday, June 13, 2020

587 Traveling Raspberries

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Traveling Raspberries oil on canvas 9x12" $238      These raspberries are from a bush originally from Oakland, CA, the y...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

586 Sunflower Challenge

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Sunflower Challenge oil on canvas 6x6" $80      It has been quite some time since I participated in the DPW Painting C...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

585 Toyon

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Toyon oil on canvas 8x10"      Toyon grow wild just over the split rail fence in our backyard. There are only four lining ...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

582 Fuyu Line

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Fuyu Line oil on canvas 8x24"  $288      This year's series of persimmons has been fun. Next week we go to the Manda...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

581 Eli

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Eli oil on canvas 12x9" $216      Eli lives at Animal Ark in Reno NV. His ears are very short because they froze off befor...
Sunday, November 10, 2019

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Persimmon Crowd oil on canvas 6x18" $162      Sometimes when I paint these little orange fruits, they begin to take on per...
Thursday, November 7, 2019

578 California Apple

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California Apple oil on canvas 12x9" $216      It is harvest time for apples and persimmons in Northern California, so I...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

577 Red Zinnia

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Red Zinnia oil on canvas 9x12" $216      I believe this is the most difficult piece I have done all year! It was not the...
Sunday, November 3, 2019

575 Peach with Leaves

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Peach with Leaves oil on canvas 18x6" $162      I had toned the canvas with Venetian Red and then found the reddish peac...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

574 Peeking Deer

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Peeking Deer oil on canvas 16x12 $384      It was pretty cute. This one was standing behind the tree and peeked out to look a...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

573 Greta in Blue Cap

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Greta in Blue Cap oil on canvas board, cradled 6x6" $100      I measured her face to see how she stacked up to the Golde...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

572 Pink Camellias

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Pink Camellias oil on canvas 14x11" $308      As you may know, flowers give me trouble. Our camellias this year were so ...
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Cheryl Wilson loves making art at her home in Grass Valley, California, where she lives with her husband Bill, the gourd artist, and their sweet little dog Philip Marlowe.
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