Soft Yellow Roses - SOLD

Soft Yellow Roses Oil on Canvas Board, 10" x 10" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. I was trying here for the softest possible yellow toned colors I could get. Contrasting with just a few spots of bright white and yellow to set the pastels off. I think it's a fun little piece. Thanks for looking.

Summer Still

Summer Still Oil on Canvas Board, 10" x 12" Available at $85.00 plus shipping. I simply love this image. The quiet heat of summer, and a lonely, abandoned house at the end of a dirt lane. Thanks for looking.

Triplets - SOLD

Triplets Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" SOLD at $90.00 plus shipping. Yellow and purple irises might be one of my favorites. I'm not sure if they grow in Louisiana, maybe. It will be interesting to see all the different kinds of flowers that thrive in the South. I really like this one. Of course, by next spring, I hope to look at it again, and say, wow, I've come a long ways since then. Thanks for looking.

Garlic Row - SOLD

Garlic Row Oil on Canvas mounted on board, 5.5" x 12" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. Simple garlic in a row. What I really like about this one is the tiny spot of light shining between the two on the right. Thanks for looking.

Brookside Again

Brookside Again Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" Available at $80.00 plus shipping. Just because I wanted to try this one again on a different surface, canvases being like everything else, of varying characteristics. The one I used yesterday was smooth toothed, and the paint wouldn't slip the way I'm used to. Nice for fine work. This felt better, though. Thanks for looking.

Brookside Walking - NA

Brookside Walking Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 16" Not Available, I must have reused the canvas. On Mother's Day, a gorgeous day except for the nasty buggies, we decided to take a nice walk in Cook's Canyon, and I was able to shoot a few photos. I loved the reflections of the new bright spring green at this spot, and the kids liked the water and rocks (they make such a nice splash.) My daughter used this one on her new blog, Natale Times and called it "Ducks in a Row". Isn't that cute? Thanks for looking.

Peppers on Plate - SOLD

Peppers on Plate Oil on Canvas Board, 10" x 10" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. This one was originally done on Novemver 12th, but it was always too much green, so I changed the background, and I like it much better. I am leaving the price as initially posted. Thanks for looking.

Top Heavy

Top Heavy Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 16" Available at $115.00 plus shipping. So full, it's bending over with bloom. This one is a bit different, with it's off kilter composition, but I think that's interesting. Thanks for looking.

Blues and Greens - Not Available

Blues and Greens Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" Not available. Lovely blues and turquoises, soft cool and warm greens, in a simple imaginary landscape. Right now there are covers of dandelions all up and down the road, in open grassy fields. I did have that in mind when I did this one, but changed the colors to wildflowers. Thanks for looking.

PinkTulip - SOLD

Pink Tulip Oil on Canvas Board, 6" x 8" SOLD at $20.00 plus shipping. Something soft and simple today. My granddaughter clipped the tulip for me from her mama's garden, and I set it across my little white bowl. I always have trouble with all the curves, but this one turned out pretty well. Thanks for looking.

Late Light - NA

Late Light Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" Not Available. You know the light that shines in your eyes in the late afternoon, back lighting whatever you see? That's what I was after here, using a photo I took at Fairways Condominiums, where I lived in Maryland. I love that late afternoon light. Thanks for looking.

Soft Pansies - NA

Soft Pansies / Diptych
6" x 8" each piece, 8" x 12" total
Not Available, Gone in for Revision.

These will be sold together, and are intended to be framed side by side. However, the buyer of the set may certainly decide to hang them separatedly as well. They will work independently. Thanks for looking, and thanks to Jill for the photos of her pansies. Aren't they delicate?

Frosted Purple - SOLD

Frosted Purple Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 16" SOLD at $145 plus shipping. The canvas panel I used for this one had a smooth weave to the fabric, so I was able to do some precise work on this with nice blending. You can click on the photo to see the brush work. The flower in the photo I used had this wonderful white blue frosted look to it, and I was able to paint that in. The background is a flat gray green, very pale. Thanks for looking.

Crazy Red - SOLD

Crazy Red Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" SOLD at $145 plus shipping. Okay, deep breath, here we go with the new price structure. This one has a base of $.80 an inch, and I've put it on the low end of the slide. Red irises, yes. I wanted to do something with a variety of reds today, so here's a rich red color scheme. Thanks for looking.

Iris for Anne - SOLD

Iris for Anne Oil on Stretched Canvas, 20" x 20" SOLD at $125.00 plus $25.00 shipping. This is a repeat of the square Garden Iris form the other day. It takes awhile to cover this large a canvas, so I've actually been working on it for two days. It was done as a promise at the old prices. Figuring under my new pricing structure, it would be somewhere between $267 and $294. I'd probably price it at $270. (Just getting you used to the new prices. Some of my collectors have told me they have sticker shock, LOL.) Thanks for looking.

Touch of Gold - Revised and SOLD

Touch of Gold 16" x 20" on Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas Revised and SOLD. (See December 30, 2008) The gallery wrap on this one is 1.5", buyer to specify color for the wrap. No frame necessary. This was an older painting that I really liked. I was especially happy with the way the top of the trees are in the light, and the shadow is falling across the bottoms. I revised it, changed a few things and am offering it again. When I bought this canvas, I didn't know what "Gallery Wrap" was, and thought it was just an extra deep canvas. So the wrapped edges were not painted, and can be painted to fit with the buyer's decor in whatever color of your choice. I've been told so many times over the past few months that my prices are too low, in spite of the fact that I've been slowly raising them. I got some coaching about this from a fellow daily painter, who does awesome work, Jimmy Longacre, who tells me that one professional way to go is by assigning a $/per square inch base price with fluctuation for size. Then once you have a base price for the size, there's a 5% slide on either side for complexity and difficulty level. It DOES make sense. Soooo...my new pricing structure, very mathematical (I won't tell you how much time I spent with the calculator) is basically this: $1.00 per square inch is my base. Smaller pieces go up to $1.40, and the larger pieces go down to $.60 per inch. A couple of examples, small, medium and large: 5" x 7" = 35 in. x 1.40 per inch= $49.00, slide is $46 to $52 10" x 12" = 120 in. x 1.00 per inch= $120.00, slide is $114 to $126 30" x 32" = 960 in. x .60 per inch= $576.00, slide is $547 to $604 The smaller pieces stay more of less in my current range, but my larger ones will certainly be more. For example, tomorrow this painting posted would be priced at (base of $.80 for 16" x 20") $250. (The slide is $243 to $269). I really don't think this is exhorbitant, and I can't imagine anyone minding paying $.80 per inch of work for a painting. So you see, this one is a "deal." Thanks for looking, and thanks for the patronage, always.

Iris in the Garden - SOLD

Iris in the Garden Oil on Stretched Canvas, 20" x 20" Sold on Commission. Big and busy, and really nice to do, from a photo taken by the lady who commissioned it. (Thanks, Judy) I apologize for the photo here, taken under flourescent lights tonight. I'll replace the photo tomorrow with a natural light shot. The painting isn't nearly as washed out as it appears here. Thanks for looking.

Pattycake Field SOLD

Pattycake Field Oil on Canvas Board, 6" x 8" SOLD at $25.00 plus $5.00 shipping. Since I was switching up to acrylics to do the chickadees below, I was throwing away my oil palette paints, and wanted to at least use some of the paint, not waste all of it. So I did this little painting out of imagination "as fast as I could" and call it Pattycake Field.Very fast, very thick and very swishy. Thanks for looking.

Chickadees for Michelle

Doorway Chicks, 7" x 22", Acrylic on Canvas Board Vertical Chicks, 8" x 20", Acrylic on Canvas Board Chickadees for Michelle Acrylic on Canvas Board SOLD on commission.

White Floral - SOLD

White Floral Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" SOLD at $80.00 plus shipping. I realized about half way into this one that I'd done it before, but smaller. Last time I called it a peony, but I'm truly not sure what it is. It might be a double tulip. At any rate, it's from a photo I took I don't remember where. So there you go. Thanks for looking.