The Lovely Stragglers - SOLD

The Lovely Stragglers

Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14"

SOLD at $35 plus $7 shipping.

Every winter I so appreciate that there are a few trees (is it the oaks?) that keep some of their leaves. In the right light, they glow a lovely faded orange. My lovely stragglers.

Simple Winter Sunset - SOLD

Simple Winter Sunset
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Practice with sky and snow colors.

Birch and Snow

Birch and Snow
Oil on Canvas Panel, 11" x 14"
Available at $23 plus $7 shipping.

I've been doing some fussy detailed work lately, on commission (see below) so it felt good this morning to just do a swishy landscape. Quick and easy brushwork.

Apples on Holly Dishtowel - SOLD

Apples on Holly Dishtowel
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 16"
SOLD.

A patterned dishtowel with some Fuji apples.
The apples look very flat here, they actually look so much better than this.

Farmyard in Snow - SOLD

Farmyard in Snow
Oil on Canvas Panel, 11" x 14"
SOLD at $25 plus $7 shipping.

A farmyard covered in snow and quiet.

Winding Winter Water

Winding Winter Stream
Oil on Canvas Panels, 11" x 14"
Available at $25 plus $7 shipping.

A simple landscape with winter colors.

Winter Stream - SOLD

Winter Stream
Oil on Canvas Panel, 11" x 14"
SOLD at $30 plus $7 shipping.

A little runoff stream that winds along Wauwinet Road, in Barre, Massachusetts. Brrrrr.

First Snow - SOLD

First Snow
Oil on Canvas Panel, 11" x 14"
SOLD at $30 plus $7 shipping.

It's so cold out right now, that I thought it was time to find the beauty in the snowy landscape.
This one is done from a reference photo  I took in Massachusetts, but it feels appropriate for this week.

Abandoned Cabin - SOLD

Abandoned Cabin

Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"

SOLD at $23 plus $7 shipping.

I had such a nice response from posting my first challenge entry to Daily Paintworks, that I wanted to do another one. This was done from the posted reference photo. I'm pretty happy with it. Again, here I am using the Zorn palette of colors: Cad Red, Yellow Ochre, Black and White. (No blues, greens, purple or orange.)

You can see all the challenge entries here:

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/challenge/the-zorn-palette-challenge/201

Interesting collection of paintings!

Zorn Palette Plus Blue - SOLD

Landscape, Zorn Palette plus Blue
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD at $20 plus $7 shipping.

I had a lot of paint left over, and wanted to use the same colors again, but with blue added. Here I am using Ultramarine Blue, and it does influence all the other mixes...the green, the purple grey.
So, the limited palette here is:

Yellow Ochre
Ultramarine Blue
Cadmium Red
White
and Ivory Black

Fun stuff!

Zorn Landscape - SOLD

Zorn Landscape
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD thru Daily Paintworks, at $20 plus $7 shipping.

The "challenge" this week at Daily Paintworks is to use the Zorn palette for a painting.
This color palette includes: Ivory Black, Titanium White, Yellow Ochre and Cadmium Red, that's it.

Pretty cool how many colors you can get out of just these four.
Just for fun, I have submitted it for the challenge.
You can see it here:
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/challenge/the-zorn-palette-challenge/201

Beside a Brook - SOLD

Beside a Brook
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD at $20, includes shipping.

What do I want to paint on a sleeting, freezing day? Green, of course! Out of my imagination.
(We did get to go to church before it got too bad out, here in the Maryland, DC area.)

Path Thru the Pines 2 - SOLD

Path Thru the Pines 2
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14"
SOLD.

A short "series" this time, with just two paintings. This one is done using the same reference as day before yesterday's posting. With a different format, rectangular instead of the square format, (which I love using.)

Puddle in the Road, Revised - SOLD

Puddle in the Road, Revised

Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 20"

SOLD at best offer plus $10 shipping.

I actually repainted most of this one today. I liked it well enough, but there was something lacking.  I think it may have been detail. I used the palette knife for a lot of the foliage, especially where it overlapped, to give some fine leafy edges. I straightened the road, and made the puddle edges crisper. Repainted the sky, the puddle, ....you get the idea.

Much better, I think.

Here is what it looked like before:

See what I mean?

Path Through the Pines - SOLD

Path Through the Pines
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD at $28 plus $7 shipping

This one was so hard, took me hours. I just forgot how to paint. Isn't that weird? But sometimes it happens. I have been busy with other things, and when I sat down to work, I just wasn't sure how to paint. Eventually it came back, after much hesitation and slow going.

Poppy a la Georgia 2 - SOLD

Poppy a la Georgia 2
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD at $25 plus $7 shipping

Even thought there is a terrible glare on the black center, if you tilt your screen, you can get an idea of how this actually looks.  (At least that works with my laptop.) I apologize for the glare.

I had so much red and orange paint left over from the other day, that I thought I'd better make another poppy painting. I'm happy with this one. A splash of red on a grey December day.

Quiet Grove - SOLD

Quiet Grove
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

A good place for a fall meander.

Poppy a la Georgia - SOLD

Poppy a la Georgia
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 20"
SOLD.

It is almost impossible to get a good photo of anything red with my little camera. This one actually has a nice variety of rich, deep reds to fire engine reds to orangey reds. Sadly, none of that is showing up here. Trust me, it's a lot better, and more painterly, than it's looking here.

Farm in the Valley - SOLD

Farm in the Valley
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD.

I wanted to paint a sky, for some reason today. So with memories of West Virginia, and a bit of imagination, here's what came out. Simple, I know, but it has a nice distant feel  to it.