My Woods Today - SOLD

My Woods Today, An Impression
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 9" x 12"
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A palette knife painting of a bit of the woods behind our place, all shaded and dappled on this wonderful sunshiny summer's day. A lot of texture in this one.

Mountain Stream - SOLD

Mountain Stream
Oil on Canvas Panel, 11" x 14"
SOLD.
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The result of a lesson with another private student on values. We first established all the values using only blue diluted with mineral spirits to get dark, mid tones and lights.

Mountain Azaleas - SOLD

Mountain Azaleas
Oil on Canvas Panel, 11" x 14"
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Just an imaginary, made up scene, somewhere I'd like to be, without the buggies of course.
Let's just imagine there is a nice breeze, so we can have a lovely mid-day picnic. What shall we eat?

Golden Summer Creek - SOLD

Golden Summer Creek
Oil on Canvas Panel, 16" x 20"
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Here's another one on reclaimed canvas, this time a panel, which KM found for me at Goodwill. Yay!
It's a perfectly good canvas, still had it's plastic wrap on it, and it was wonderful to paint on today. The landscapes come so much more easily to me than say, grapes. Thanks for looking.

Grapes in Green Bowl

I revised this one today. I have no problem whatever attacking a painting that needs revision. Don't you think it's much better? I changed the shape of the bowl (it was wonky on the left side,) made the background dark, changed the color and shading on the bowl, and went over the grapes more carefully. NOW it's nice.
It has a bit of a formal look to it, but that's okay.

Here's how it looked before.

Grapes in Green Bowl
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 9" x 12"
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A simple bowl of grapes, but this one took me a long time today.
I'm not sure if I like it or not, I've been looking at it for awhile.

To the Meadow - SOLD

To the Meadow
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14"
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You've seen this similar pieces, before. I've used the reference photo a few times. But I had this lovely canvas, and wanted something easy to paint, just for the pleasure of using such nice canvas.

Woods on Red Ground - SOLD

Woods on Red Ground
Oil over Acrylic on Canvas Panel, 11" x 14"
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Here is a close up detail of the palette knife stroke:

This one started out as a lesson in acrylics for my private student, Kelly, yesterday. I wanted to show her how you could use a solid color (red in this case) as an undercoat, and let bits of the color show through.
Today I decided to paint over it with a palette knife, and sometimes that's just right. Using the very tip of a palette knife is almost like drawing with a pencil, there's so much control, and you can get such nice  variations, and color shifts. Isn't this one nice, in site of it being out of season?

Hydrangeas in Cools - SOLD

Hydrangeas in Cools
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14"
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One of my earliest collectors was in town visiting her son, so we got together this week and gallivanted. She brought me art goodies, (thanks, KM!) including some older canvases. Estate sale, or maybe a thrift shop, or flea market; wherever they came from, they are a dream to paint on. Even after sitting for who knows how long, this one had perfect tension and a perfect stretch from the get go. The canvas was lovely to paint on, good tooth, nice fabric. It isn't a known brand, just an old no-name stretched canvas, but even then, the quality of  this older canvas makes me wonder where the pride went. It was nicer to paint on than anything branded that I've bought at Michaels in forever. Today you get decent canvas only when you pay crazy top dollar. (Sigh.) Is it like that with most things today?
Tell you what, I'm looking in Goodwill and the Sal for canvas whenever I can. Thrift shops, you bet.

Little Red Maple - SOLD

Little Red Maple
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10"
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Using the same reference photo as the other day, I made a few imaginary changes.
Whole different painting.

Daisies on Lavender - SOLD

Daisies on Lavender
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 10"
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Another sketch of daisies.

Light and Shadow - SOLD

Light and Shadow
Oil on Canvas Panel, 11" x 14"
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This is my favorite kind of painting, landscape with lots of color variety and light play.
It actually feels like today's weather here in the DC area. Gorgeous sunshine, not too hot, nice breeze.

Daisy Sketch - SOLD

Daisy Sketch
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 10"
SOLD at $20 plus $8 shipping.

This one is very loose and sketchy. I did the daisies a little differently, laying down all the shadow color first, then going over it with white. The white picked up the color underneath. I kind of like it this way, though next time I'll go darker with the flowers in shadow.

Iris Watercolor- SOLD

Iris Watercolor
Cast Shadow Iris
Watercolor on Arches Paper, 12" x 16"
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Bowing to the general consensus that this one wasn't worth $40, I am dropping the price.
Thanks for looking!

Muguet des Bois - SOLD

Muguet des Bois
Watercolor and Colored Pencil on Watercolor Paper, 6" x 8"
SOLD at $12 plus $5 shipping.

There will be two posts (hopefully) today. This is just my little tribute to the precious Lily of the Valley growing in my yard. The poor plants are so crowded that there aren't many blooms. But what does bloom is fragrant and sweet. I had to something with them. This one I drew, then did colored pencil, then watercolor.

Glowing Farmhouse - SOLD

Glowing Farmhouse
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
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I thought I'd stay with the buildings for a little, but oh, my, they take so much nit-picky time.
All those little angles and tiny shapes...
Anyway, I do like how this one turned out.
Thanks for looking.

Seaside Cottages - (Two Versions) SOLD

Seaside Cottages
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD at $18 plus $8 shipping.

Yesterday I watched a demo by Johannes Vloothuis, you've heard me talk about him before. It was a subject that I need work on anyway, buildings. So after church today, I ran the video again with pauses so I could paint along, after a fashion. I've got some wonky lines here, but it does have a bit of charm, regardless.

Monday: Another version for a collector who really wanted yesterday's. Also SOLD.

This one is more deliberate, I think. Which appeals more?
The more sketchy first one, or the more exacting, careful second one?

Afternoon Marsh - SOLD

Afternoon Marsh
Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 9"
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Water and grasses, and trees in the distance. Done from a Barre reference photo.

Iris with Cast Shadows

Iris with Cast Shadows
Watercolor on Arches Paper, 12" x 16"
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Vase of Cherry Blossoms - SOLD

Vase of Cherry Blossoms
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD at $22 plus $8 shipping.

This one didn't sell, so I revised it, and am offering it at a lower price.

Iris Watercolors - SOLD

Purple and Lavender Iris
Watercolor on Arches CP Paper, 12" x 16"
SOLD at $30 plus $8 shipping.

Lavender and Sienna Iris
Watercolor on Arches CP Paper, 9" x 12"
SOLD at $20 plus $8 shipping.

Two more watercolors, since I'm out of canvas at the moment. And because folks always like the watercolors. (They just take so much longer than my oils.)