Wild Azaleas 
Pink Dogwoods
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
Available at $65.00 plus shipping.
Same view as the previous post, but under an overcast sky. And substituting pink for white dogwoods. I don't do buildings very well, so it's good to practice and work on getting better at architecture, all that perspective and all those straight lines.
Spring Greens and Dogwoods
Mixed Apples on Red
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10"
SOLD at $45.00 plus shipping.
Revised from Apples on the Edge, March 28, 2010.
I changed the background on this, and I think the color works better now.
Going Green
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8"
SOLD at $30.00 plus shipping.
I should have posted this one yesterday, right? All this green.
Thanks for looking.
Light Play Landscape
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping.
I had some lovely red peppers all set up to paint, but once I got sketching them, decided that today was instead an easy and fun little imaginary landscape. Just wanted to swish some paint on the canvas. With landscapes, where I really want to learn is how to paint light and air. Pushing in that direction anyway.
Golden Lit Creek
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 14" x 18"
SOLD at $100 plus shipping.
Not the best photo, but a really nice painting. At least I'm pleased with it. It's got a nice warm glow to it, and is fairly good sized.
Dappled Creek
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14"
Not available, redone on May 7, 2010.
I'm pleased with this one, and it feels like a nice change from all the "window view" paintings that I've been doing lately. Nothing like a good landscape, and it seems there's a small series going here, creek scenes.
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Spring Forest
Oil on Stretched Linen, 11" x 14"
Not available, see revised version 4/28/10.
I always think it's a treat to paint on linen, but I forget to take advantage of it's fine properties, and wind up painting as I normally would. One of these days I'll remember to paint something fine and careful on linen.
Rocky Creek
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 12" x 12" x 1.5" wrap
Not available, revised on May 12, 2010.
Detail of Edge below.
This one is gallery wrapped and painted around the edges, so no frame is needed. One of my favorite subjects, creeks with dappled water.
Polka Dot Bowl
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10"
SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping.
Another painting with one of the new little bowls. It's so cute, isn't it?
New Bowls
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10"
SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping.
Do you have a Tuesday Morning store where you are? It's such a fun place to snoop around. I found this bowl set there, and I suspect that there might have been a third that broke, so it was on the clerance shelf. $6 for two cute bowls? I'll take it!
Early Spring Overcast
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping.
Another view out my window, this time under overcast skies. Love that mauve purple color. (Called Caput Mortum, or Mars Violet.) Yum.
Early Spring Sunshine
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD at 60.00 plus shipping.
The view out my window from today, cool but crispy and sunshiney.
It feels so good to be painting every day again.
Little Apple
Oil on Canvas Panel, 6" x 6"
SOLD at $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping.
Simple apple, lottsa color!
Early Spring Impressions
Oil on Canvas Panel, 10" x 10"
SOLD at $30.00 plus shipping
It always take a while to "get back into the groove" with painting outdoors. This one could have a lot more structure, but I was so excited about being "out" painting that I wasn't paying close attention to the painting, if you get my drift. I intend to try this view again, as it's very handy, just outside my window. This tree was in my snow paintings too.
Apples on the Edge
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10"
Revised, reposted on April 23, 2010.
I thought you might like to see the middle stages of a painting done with this technique. All the lights are blocked in with warm colors and all the shadow colors are blocked in with cool colors, mostly primary and secondary colors. This is the "adjusting" stage, when you start scanning and comparing, adding other colors to the blocked in areas. Cool, isn't it?
Apple Tumble on Green
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10"
SOLD at $35.00 plus shipping.
Another apple painting on green, using the techniques from the new book. This one is for a collector who wanted yesterday's piece, but missed it, if she wants it. (Yes, she did.)
Goldens on Green
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8"
SOLD at $35.00 plus shipping.
This is another painting done by trying to use the techniques in the book I'm studying right now. Except I did blend this one more than the first. I still like it, and I'm getting so much out of this book. (Capturing Radiant Light and Color with Oils and Soft Pastels, by Susan Sarback. )
Mountain Road with Stone Wall
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 24" x 24"
SOLD.
This one turned out so nicely, though it appears a bit washed out here. It was a larger version of a plein air piece I did a few years ago when I was visiting a friend, Carl Wolfram, at his home in the mountains of Massachusetts. He and his friends made the stone wall, and it's huge and beautiful, although it doesn't appear that big here.
