Artist Statement

Saturday, June 07, 2014

My Woods Today - SOLD

My Woods Today, An Impression
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 9" x 12"
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A palette knife painting of a bit of the woods behind our place, all shaded and dappled on this wonderful sunshiny summer's day. A lot of texture in this one.

Friday, June 06, 2014

Mountain Stream - SOLD

Mountain Stream
Oil on Canvas Panel, 11" x 14"
SOLD.
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The result of a lesson with another private student on values. We first established all the values using only blue diluted with mineral spirits to get dark, mid tones and lights.

Thursday, June 05, 2014

Mountain Azaleas - SOLD

Mountain Azaleas
Oil on Canvas Panel, 11" x 14"
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Just an imaginary, made up scene, somewhere I'd like to be, without the buggies of course.
Let's just imagine there is a nice breeze, so we can have a lovely mid-day picnic. What shall we eat?

Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Golden Summer Creek - SOLD

Golden Summer Creek
Oil on Canvas Panel, 16" x 20"
SOLD at $60 plus $10 shipping.
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Here's another one on reclaimed canvas, this time a panel, which KM found for me at Goodwill. Yay!
It's a perfectly good canvas, still had it's plastic wrap on it, and it was wonderful to paint on today. The landscapes come so much more easily to me than say, grapes. Thanks for looking.

Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Grapes in Green Bowl

I revised this one today. I have no problem whatever attacking a painting that needs revision. Don't you think it's much better? I changed the shape of the bowl (it was wonky on the left side,) made the background dark, changed the color and shading on the bowl, and went over the grapes more carefully. NOW it's nice.
It has a bit of a formal look to it, but that's okay.

Here's how it looked before.
Grapes in Green Bowl
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 9" x 12"
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A simple bowl of grapes, but this one took me a long time today.
I'm not sure if I like it or not, I've been looking at it for awhile.

Monday, June 02, 2014

To the Meadow - SOLD


To the Meadow
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14"
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You've seen this similar pieces, before. I've used the reference photo a few times. But I had this lovely canvas, and wanted something easy to paint, just for the pleasure of using such nice canvas.