Halloween Rose - SOLD

Halloween Rose Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10"x 10" SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping. Okay, it's not a pumpkin. I tried pumpkins and I don't really do them well, so here's a rose interior, with touches of orange and pink. Happy Halloween, everyone! And thanks, MG, for the use of the photo from your garden.

Brush PLay Landscape - SOLD

Brush Play Landscape

Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8"

SOLD at $30.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

I am more and more enamored of brush work, what you can do with it. Today I took a bristle brush, which I don't generally use, and just went at an imaginary landscape, swishing paint. I love the texture of thick paint, don't you? I am also intrigued with the lovely grays you can mix, so this one is pretty much high key with lots of gray.

Housewarming Lemons - SOLD

Housewarming Lemons Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8' x 16" SOLD for a housewarming gift. Isn't that nice? My cousin's friend saw his lemons and wanted her own. I love it when my paintings generate more paintings. What good little ambassadors!

Red Passion Hydrangeas 3 - SOLD

Red Passion Hydrangeas 3 Oil on Stretched Canvas, 9" x 12" SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping. This is my last experiment with the Red Passion Hydrangeas. I think this will be the way I'll handle the larger painting. I sat down and actually drew these out tight on the canvas, sprayed the drawing with fixative, and painted loosely. This way I'll have a choice on a large canvas whether to go realistic in spots and loose in others. I like it, plan to do about five blooms on the larger painting.

Magnolia on Turquoise - SOLD

Magnolia on Turquoise Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 24" x 24" x 1.5" wrap SOLD to Collector Another really big magnolia for my commissioned piece. The wrap is an extension of the leaves and background.

Shiny Red Pears - SOLD

Shiny Red Pears Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 16" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. I am actually very happy with the folds of the drapery on this one. The pears, too, but the drape is the success story on this one. Maybe a little more darkness under the right pear, which I can fix, but otherwise, it's pretty okay.

Turning Trees - SOLD

Turning Trees Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. Another incredibly gorgeous day in Maryland. I went to my current favorite spot, and found my trees in more color, and less leaf. Ahhh, October! I love my job.

Red Pear, Wrapped Canvas - SOLD

Red Pear, Wrapped Canvas

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 6" x 6", by 1.5"

SOLD at $45.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

Detail of Side included above.

After the large painting yesterday, I felt like something sweet and manageable today. Hence this elegant and simple red pear. Sides are painted extensions, no framing needed.

Double Magnolias - SOLD

Double Magnolias Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 24" x 24" SOLD at $225.00 plus shipping. This one is really big. This is actually the first time I've seen it, since it's so big that when I worked on it yesterday and today, I really couldn't "see" it, it's too big to see it up close. I'm glad it turned out as well as it did! The wrap will be painted in the blue green, muted tones of the background. The edges to the wall are 1.5" in depth. No framing needed. Thanks for looking.

Apple Wedges - SOLD

Apple Wedges Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8" SOLD at $30.00 plus shipping. Changes and variations are sometime subtle. Today I noticed a slight change in the way I'm doing my brushwork. I like it, I'm pushing paint around with the brush as much as stroking it. Neat. I know, very slight difference, but it's those tiny increments that move us in a new direction.

Chintz Painting 3 and 4- SOLD

Chintz Paintings 3, and 4

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 6" x 6"

Wrap of 1.5", pattern extended.

SOLD at $80.00 the set plus shipping.

Another set of Chintz fabric paintings. These have a wrap of 1 and 1/2" and are intended to be hung without framing. The pattern is extended around all four sides, though I expect some of it won't show in the hanging. Tricky to handle wet paintings to paint their edges, but I wanted to use the colors while I had them mixed.

Chintz Painting 1 and 2 - SOLD

Chintz Paintings 1 and 2

Oil on Stretched Canvas, 6" x 6" with .5" wrap, painted in the dark color

SOLD the set at $70.00 plus shipping.

This is the first set of two of either Cretonne or Chintz fabric painting. One of my collectors sent me an arm chair cover of this fabric, and I'm having fun making up paintings to match it. The next set will have a 1.5" wrap, so no framing will be needed. On to the next set.

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Goldens Posing - SOLD

Goldens Posing Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 16" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. The lemons fit on my little stand better than these guys, but since I had the canvas, I thought I'd give them a whirl. They didn't turn out as interesting as the wonderfully colored Seckel pears, but still neat to paint.

October Turning Trees - SOLD

October Turning Trees

Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"

SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping.

Even though I had scheduled more requests today, it is one of those absolutely glorious fall days, pure blue sky, sunshine, warm, but crisp. Ahhh. So I went outdoors and found these trees just past the cut-through that I've painted before. Beautiful to sit outside and paint, especially now that I've had some recent plein air time. It really isn't so much about the painting today, as just having an excuse to be out in the beauty of it all.

Blue Apples 2 - SOLD

Blue Apples 2 Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8" SOLD at $45.00 plus shipping. There was more response to my silly blue apples than I had imagined, and one of my collectors requested a redo, so this one is for her. These are blatantly blue, but same idea, playing with values, not colors.

Floral Blues, Hydrangeas - SOLD

Floral Blues, Hydrangeas Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. Little by little, I am catching up on some of my requests. Of course, I do the easier ones first, so here's another hydrangea painting done on request. If you are waiting for a painting, I'm getting there!

Deep Sienna Iris - SOLD

Deep Sienna Iris Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 16" SOLD at $125.00, includes shipping. I was doing a small iris this morning for a commission, and just kept on going, with this lovely dramatic iris. I've used the photo before, and every once in awhile, a big old iris is just what I want to paint.

Tiny Cradled Iris 2 - SOLD

Tiny Cradled Iris 2 Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 6" x 6" Sides 1.5" Extension from Wall SOLD Side Details, top and bottom will also be painted. No frame needed. This one is sold to a collector who liked the first Tiny Cradled Iris.

Woodland Light 2 - SOLD

Woodland Light 2 Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 16" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. This one is a repeat of an earlier painting, done for one of my collectors. Don't you like the strong sense of light? (The shore line is actually straight in the painting.)

Fall Goldens - SOLD

Fall Goldens Oil on Stretched Canvas, 9" x 12" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. Looser than I usually paint, lots of color and swish, but still paying some attention to color and shadows. I think this might be a new direction to explore.