Blue Glazed Drape with Apples

Blue Glazed Drape with Apples Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" Available at $40.00 plus shipping. This is another of my revised pieces. It looked like this before I revised it today. Much better, yes? I glazed the greenish looking drapery with blues.

December Garlic - SOLD

December Garlic Oil on Canvas Panel, 8" x 10" SOLD at $40.00 plus $5.00 shipping. I did this milder version earlier this fall, and decided that I really wanted to punch it up. Good day to be inside painting, with the snow and slippery roads in the DC area today. A nice time at class this morning, when my dear ladies surprised me with a Christmas treat, a nice fat GC to Plaza Art, our local fine arts store, yeehaw! Thanks, ladies!

Red Pears Watercolor

Red Pears Watercolor Watercolor on Aquabord, 8" x 8" Available at $25.00 plus $5.00 shipping. This one is on Aquabord, which is a wooden panel, treated to accept watercolor. I will be spray-fixing it, and then a coat of varnish, so it can be framed like an oil or an acrylic, with no glass or matting (unless you want it.) It can be shipped tomorrow.

Lemons with Pear Napkin - SOLD

Lemons on Pear Napkin Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14" SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping. People seem to like my cloth napkins, so here's another one. This one I've used before under pears. This time with some lemons.

Intermediate Oils Class Online

I've been working on a follow up class for my alumni for awhile now, adding ideas, reading and studying on my own. And I've gotten things to the stage in the writing where I can start enrolling. Class will begin the week of January 10, 2011, and with a couple of weeks off, we'll finish up the second week in March. Perfect for getting through the cold months. We have a new Yahoo group for the class, where lessons will be posted: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Intermediate_Oils and we will also have a new Flickr group or you can simply put your work on your own Flickr or blog, as before. You can enroll with this button, but also send me an email, so I can "invite" you to the new group. Cost of the class is $75.00.

Lemons and Mustard Bowl - SOLD

Lemons and Mustard Bowl
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8"
SOLD.

I wanted a warm painting. The background is not one of my usual colors, but it does look warm. (It's 23 degrees outdoors, no wonder I wanted warm!)

Field and Sky - SOLD

Field and Sky Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. I really want to work on skies this coming year. Clouds are something I've never been able to do to my own satisfaction, so there's one of my art goals right there. Though these clouds are fluffy and colored okay, they don't have the magic that I'm after. However, not a bad landscape, I like the colors in the field a lot, and that little bit of frost suggested.

Pears on Cherry Napkin - SOLD

Pears on Cherry Napkin Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $65.00 plus $10.00 shipping. One of the things I bought awhile back at Tuesday Morning was cloth napkins. This is one of my favorites, but I hadn't used it in a painting yet. It just seemed to be the time. Made for a bit of a busy painting, but with the contrsting color of the pears, I think it works.

White Onion - SOLD

White Onion Oil on Artbord Panel, 6" x 6" SOLD at $20.00 plus $5.00 This is the last of my fall paintings that were claimed but not purchased. This one is all set to go, so no waiting.

Red Delicious Apples - SOLD

Red Delicious Apples Oil on Linen Panel, 9" x 12" SOLD at $45.00 plus $7.00 shipping. Every once in awhile I treat myself to some linen. It is just so delicious to paint on, a completely different feel from cotton canvas. This is one of those splurge paintings. Didn't the apples turn out nicely?

Amherst Autumn - SOLD

Amherst Autumn Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $50.00 plus $10.00 shipping. This one was claimed but never purchased. So I've dropped the price, and am offering it again. It is dry, signed and varnished, so can go out right away, in time for a nice Christmas gift for someone who loves these kinds of colors.

Grandma's Kids - SOLD

Grandma's Kids
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 12" x 24" x 1.25"
SOLD.

This is one of the last of my Christmas commissions. It was hard to push myself to do it, figures are hard, but once I got into the painting part, it was fun. One of the little guys still gets a couple of back -of -the -ear pieces for his glasses, but otherwise done. Isn't it sweet?

November Pansies Repost - SOLD

November Pansies, Repost Oil on Artbord, 8" x 8" x 1/2" SOLD at $40.00 plys $5.00 shipping. This one was posted in November and was wanted ("sold"), but never redeemed or paid for. So now becomes available again. The edges are painted, so no frame is needed.

Rock Creek, Palette Knife - SOLD

Rock Creek, Palette Knife Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 16" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. If you have been watching my work for a time, you know that I love painting landscapes with lottsa trees and maybe a creek. This is from one of my fall photos in Rock Creek. I really like the front shadows.

Bay Sunset - SOLD

Bay Sunset Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $40.00 plus $8.00 shipping. OK. I did paint this afternoon, but didn't get one done. So here's this sunset one last time, with the water darkened. I promise that I won't post it again.

Two Apples, Pears and Bowls - SOLD

Two Apples, Pears and Bowls Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD at $40.00 plus shipping. Time for a still life. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Poinsettia 2010 - SOLD

Poinsettia 2010 Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $45.00 plus shipping. This is one from last year that didn't sell at $75.00. It was probably too close to Christmas, but I've always liked it. So I pulled it out this morning, and spruced it up a little, darkening some of the reds, brightening up the background a little. It might make a nice "get it out for the holidays" painting for someone.

Red Barn Three - SOLD

Red Barn Three Oil on Stretched Canvas, 14" x 18" SOLD. This is another one of the red barn paintings, this one larger by request. I even had a little room for the fence on this one. Thanks for looking.

Winter Hydrangeas - SOLD

Winter Hydrangeas Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD at $55.00 plus shipping. Don't you just love these colors? Even dried out from the bush, these are gorgeous flowers.

Deep Fall Hydrangeas - SOLD

Deep Fall Hydrangeas Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8" SOLD at $40.00 plus shipping. I've had a wonderful time away. I was invited to go along to the Eastern shore with my dear cousin's family, and filled my senses with the wonderful sights, sounds and smells particular to "the beach house". Now back refreshed, thankful. And on the way back, I clipped some still beautifully colored hydrangeas off my cousin's back bushes. Ahhh. I've got another painting for tomorrow, slightly larger.