Iris in Lavender and Yellow - SOLD

Iris in Lavender and Yellow Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. I like working on stretched canvas, and I love the square format, so this one was just plain fun to paint. I think it's a good combination of swish and definition. Thanks for looking, and I hope you are all having a good weekend and avoiding the flu that's going about.

Sunny Shoreline

Sunny Shoreline Oil on Linen Panel, 11" x 14" Available at $65.00 plus shipping. The point of this particular painting was mixing grays. Is it grey or gray? Green gray and blue gray, with touches of warm, or touches of cool, even some purple and brown grays in the water. I was trying for the actual feeling of the shadowed trees in cool shade in the background contrasted against the glare of bright sun on the shore. Thanks for looking.

Orange and Purple Iris - SOLD

Orange and Purple Iris Watercolor on Strathmore 300 lb Watercolor Paper, 14" x 22" Sold at $85.00 plus shipping. This one is nice and bright, I love the combination of the purple and orange, fun to work with, really. This is an extra one that I had started last spring but not finished. I'm glad I took the time to complete it. Thanks for looking.

Pink Geranium Sketch - SOLD

Pink Geranium Sketch Oil on Linen Board, 11" x 14" SOLD at sale price. I bought two little geraniums in pots at our local florist, Goldsmiths Nursery, simply because there wern't any tulips or daffodils to be had. I love the fact that in a small town, you can go in and browse, leave money and a note, and never see a shopkeeper. I started this as I would any oil painting, but I liked it so well as a sketch that I decided to leave it rough, and really didn't blend anything but the cast shadow a bit. Thanks for looking.

Petersham Pond - SOLD

Petersham Pond Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" Sold at $100.00 plus shipping. There were a couple of requests for this image, so I enjoyed painting it again today. This one is larger though (than the one from a couple of weeks back), and so I was able to fit in the overhanging tree and more background, which gives the little boat a nice environment, I think. Thanks for looking.

Distant Rain - SOLD

Distant Rain Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. This one is noplace in particular. It started out because I wanted to use grey in the sky, and I also wanted to use some of the Elizabeth Tolley techniques and colors for the trees and water. Once you have sky, trees and water, you've got a composition and adding grasses gets the job done. Thanks for looking.

Marsh Morning Two - SOLD

Marsh Morning Two (On Hold) Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" Sold at $70.00 plus shipping. A repeat of the other day's painting. This one is a bit larger and I used more orange in the sunrise area on this one. It has a similar feel to it, but still a different painting. Done by request. Thanks for looking.

Peony - SOLD

Peony Oil on Linen Panel, 9" x 12" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. Aren't you just eager for flowers, for growing things? This is from some photos I took a couple of years back in the neighbor's yard in Maryland. She grew wonderful peonies. Thanks for looking.

Minneolas - SOLD

Minneolas Oil on Canvas board, 8" x 10" SOLD at $20.00 plus shipping. Have you seen these? I picked some up at the produce place the other day, along with the tomatoes, and they have a Sunkist label on them. Beautiful orange red skins and these odd little knobs at the growing end. I had to try painting them, and got to use some of my more transparent paint colors. Thanks for looking.

Marsh Morning - SOLD

Marsh Morning Oil on Linen Panel, 11" x 14" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. I wanted something beautiful to paint today, and this photo of the morning light on a marsh did it for me. It was pure pleasure to paint. I am so grateful for the beauty that God gives us to enjoy every day. Thanks for looking.

Waterfall - NA

Waterfall
Watercolor Crayons on Richeson 300 lb Rough Paper, 11" x 15"
Not Available

New toys to play with. Lyra Aquacolors are a densely pigmented water soluble crayon (yes, crayon) that you can draw with dry and then wet to watercolor, or use a wet brush to pick up pigment from the crayon and simply paint. Very fun. This one was done as an exercise on depicting water for Kate Johnson's watercolor pencil class, and the photo was taken and shared by a classmate. Thanks for looking.

Tomato Six Pack SOLD

Tomato Six Pack Oil on Linen Panel, 9" x 12" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. I stopped with my friend Susan from church, at a wonderful little fruit and veggie place today, and bought these tomatoes, which really are on a six stem vine. Very cool. They reminded me of a six pack, a natural one, that is. Thanks for looking.

Grapes with Orange

Grapes with Orange Oil on Linen Panel, 9" x 12" Available at $50.00 plus shipping. I blocked this one in, and started to "finesse" it, blending, overworking, clarifying lines, but then, stopped myself. Before I got to the grapes and the orange. I'm trying to paint more freshly and directly. Aren't the grapes nice that way? Thanks for looking.

Floral Watercolor /Negative Painting - NA

Floral Watercolor/ Negative Painting
Watercolor on 300 lb Cold Press Paper, 15.5" x 17"
Not available.

This one was done as a demonstration in my watercolor class (a couple of years ago), and then finished in detail later because I liked it so well. We were working on negative painting, painting the space rather than the form, explained so well by Linda Kemp in her fine and inspiring books. It could be cropped almost anywhere and still make sense. Thanks for looking.

Light with Apples - SOLD

Light with Apples Oil on Linen Panel, 9" x 12" SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping. While I was painting this one, which is really about light and lost edges, I kept thinking of the little rhymne that goes: One for the Money Two for the Show Three to Get Ready, (but then in my head it was...) Go, Dogs, Go! I know that isn't right, but you know that children's book, Go, Dogs, Go! Can you tell that I live with kids? Thanks for looking.

Humility - SOLD

Humility Oil on Canvas Board, 10" x 12" SOLD My first self portrait, and it gives me great humility to post it. Looks like some old witchy woman, and the sad part is, not that it doesn't look like me, but oh goodness, that it DOES. At one point in the sketch, my brother popped out of the face, which was weird. "Oh, Hi Bruce, there you are!" My daughter says that the nose and face are too long, so next attempt, I'll give myself better light, and maybe be kinder (whatever helps, right?) Nothing much to do about the dumbo ears and the saggy bags, though. Sigh. Thanks for looking.

Fall Creek Scene - SOLD

Fall Creek Scene Watercolor Pencil on 140 lb Rough Richeson Paper, 8.5" x 11" Sold at $40.00 plus $5.00 shipping. A small departure today, since I got a new block of nice watercolor paper, and am working on some exercises for the online Watercolor Pencil Class given by Kate Johnson. This one took as much time as any watercolor, since it's all strokes of pencil, and then water added to the pigment. It still has a bit of sketchy feel to it, since some of the pencil marks are left showing. Done from a resource photo in the Wet Canvas library. Thanks for looking.

Promising Thoughts - SOLD

Promising Thoughts

Oil on Linen Board, 11" x 14"

SOLD at $80.00 plus shipping.

It's snowing tonight again. It snowed and slushed yesterday. My daughter shoveled today and we'll probably have to shovel again tomorrow. No wonder everyone here is thinking of green and warm, sunshine and soft skies right now. This one was just a delight to paint. I think that because linen is more expensive, I slow down and simply enjoy the feel of it under my brush. So satisfying. Thanks for looking.

Mug of Tea - SOLD

Mug of Tea Oil on Canvas Board, 6" x 8" SOLD at $20.00 plus shipping. I picked up this mug at a consignment shop, and I like the shape of it. It has Starbucks etched into the glass, but it's easily ignored. I've been thinking what to paint with it, so today I just made some tea, and set it on beige paper. This is more towards how I want to paint, realistic to a point, but still painterly, using the beauty of the oils themselves. Thanks for looking. As an aside: Welcome to the World, little miss Kayla, my newborn granddaughter!

Garlic Abstracted - SOLD

Garlic Abstracted Oil on Canvas Board, 10" x 12" Sold at $70.00 plus shipping. On this one I just tried to get the basic shapes and values. Big brushes and swishy strokes, lots of paint. It came out pretty stark, I think, but somehow I really like it, too. Thanks for looking.