Pink Rose Watercolor - SOLD

Pink Rose Watercolor Watercolor on Arches CP paper, 7" x 7" image area SOLD at $35.00 plus $5.00 shipping. A small painting today, and since I had my watercolors out anyway, figured I'd try a rose. I didn't quite get the glow I was after, but I like the little rose anyway. Hope you are enjoying the days after Christmas with family and friends, and a spot of vacation.

Palmetto Fronds - SOLD

Palmetto Fronds Watercolor on Arches 140 Cold Press Paper, 12.5" x 19" SOLD at $85.00 plus shipping. I haven't done a watercolor in awhile, and my daughter's beautiful and colorful palmettos have been calling me since we moved here in July. I've taken lots of photos of them, and decided today for a change of pace, to draw one out. It took me lots longer to paint than I anticipated, but all those little spaces, well... The palmettos are actually a lot bushier and fuller than this, but I like it anyway. It just means I'll try it again. It can certainly be cropped to a more standard size.

Christmas 2008 - SOLD

Christmas 2008 Oil on Canvas Panel, 10" x 12" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us..." Amazing the Love. Christmas blessings to all.

Road from the Orchard 4 - SOLD

Road from the Orchard 4 Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 16" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. This one is larger than yesterday's painting, and here I attempted to use the crispness in the details but still have a sense of impressionistic mystery, some blurred edges, to let the viewer use his own imagination. It is on hold, as the collector who has requested this image decided against yesterday's piece, and I thought to try again. Not a very Christmasy image, but I do hope you are all enjoying a meaningful and joyful Christmas Eve day.

Road from the Orchard 3

Road from the Orchard 3 Oil on Linen Panel, 11" x 14" Available at $40.00 plus shipping. This is the third of the same scene. The collector who requested it loves detail, so this one has more careful leaf formation and a bit more detail in the trunk and branches of the main tree. Just generally a slower piece with more small brush work. It is a bit warmer in person than this photo shows. What do you think? Do you like the detailed work? Update: The collector has decided on a larger version or a different scene, so this one is available.

Winter Rose - SOLD

Winter Rose Oil on Canvas Board, 10" x 12" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. This is actually the same rose I have painted before, but from a different view. I came across the stray photo when I was hunting for something else. My studio is like that, and really hasn't been reorganized since I jumbled everything off low spaces and tucked away as much as I could before the hurricanes this past fall. So hunting is a pretty normal activity for me, LOL.

Valley Greens - SOLD

Valley Greens Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 20" SOLD.. Lots and lots of greens. Another possible protoype painting for a larger version.

Brook Path, Diptych - SOLD

Brook Path, Diptych

Oil on Canvas Panels, each 8" x 10"

SOLD the set at $40.00 plus shipping.

Still working with the panorama idea, but I didn't have any square canvases. This represents an imaginary place, patched together from a bunch of my photos. It was a complete struggle, since I read in the brochure that you can mix the water soluble oils with regular oils. Well, make that "sort of" because the two did not play nicely together for me. It is chemically feasible, but it got either very slimy or quite tacky in the doing.

Christmas Apple - SOLD

Christmas Apple Water Soluble Oils on Canvas Panel, 6" x 8" SOLD at $20.00 plus shipping. Still messing around with the water miscible oils, to see what I can do with them, and the limited palette. A small and simple painting today.

Woodland Panorama - NA

Woodland Panorama Water Soluble Oils on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 16" Not Available. Since some of my students will be working in water soluble oils, I found a small, student grade set on sale and also picked up a Thinner and a Medium for the paints. I figured I had better at least try them out, so I can relate to the students who are using them. I am also in the planning stages for a diptych that will be proportionate to this small one, and thinking in terms of what will work for that. So this piece is experimental in two ways. The paints act quite differently than my oil based oils. To me, at this stage anyway. Maybe the artist grade paints act more like oils, I'll find that out.

Poinsettia 2 - SOLD

Poinsettia 2 Oil on Canvas Panel, 8" x 10" SOLD at $40.00 plus $5.00 shipping. Isn't this one a little gem? I decided to try again with the poinsettia and be more concerned with the values than the actual colors. Even though the colors aren't correct, they "read" right, and I think that's due to the values.

Poinsettia - SOLD

Poinsettia Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. Have you actually ever heard anyone pronounce this correctly? Don't we all say "point..." when it's actually "poin...". I know I do. Anyway, the trick with this one was trying to get the light red bright enough to suggest the velvety intense color while still using little to no white. I think I'm going to try it again, and see if I can't improve the color, though I'm happy enough with this one.

Apples in Bowl by Bev Halpert - SOLD

Apples in Bowl by Bev Halpert Oil on Canvas Board, 8" x 8" SOLD. I've used this little pottery bowl before, and it's got such a nice shape and color (lovely glazing) that I decided to use the stripes and apples again with this pottery. Fun to paint with all the variations in the glaze. The bowl was done by potter Beverly Halpert.

Blue Glass with Apples - Sold

Blue Glass with Apples Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. One of my collectors liked the Apples in Red, White and Blue from the other day, and asked if I would be doing another, so this one is for Nancy if she wants it. This time there are three apples, and the lighting and fabric are a bit different. Still fun to do though, i am liking how these are turning out.

The Color "Sky" 2 - SOLD

The Color "Sky" 2 Oil on Gesso Board, 8" x 10" Sold at $30.00, includes shipping Someone had asked me if there would be another painting similar to The Color Sky that I did a couple of weeks ago. I remember registering the request in my head, but now can't find the email, so don't remember who asked for it. If it was you, here you go. Different, but similar, focusing on the colors of an evening sky.

Apples in Red, White and Blue - SOLD

Apples in Red, White and Blue Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" Sold at $75.00 plus shipping. I like this one. The stripes always seem so appealing. I actually didn't realize it was so July 4th in color until I was well into it. Maybe I should have called it "Confused Apples," since this one is confused about the holiday. (Or maybe it's the painter...)

Road from the Orchard 2 - SOLD

Road from the Orchard 2 Oil on Canvas Board, 11" x 14" Sold at $40.00 plus shipping. Often I like to work in a small series, and this one I did in early November, but didn't post it. It's a second version of the post from Halloween day, more blended, more soft, and a bit more carefully rendered. Since we had snow this morning in Louisiana, and the studio is unheated, my paints and fingers are too stiff to make much headway on the painting I started this morning. I'll plug along with frequent trips into the house to warm up, and maybe have it done tomorrow.

Magnolia 4 - SOLD

Magnolia 4 Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD. Another magnolia in the square format, by request. Are you getting tired of these white flowers yet? I try to make each one a bit different, and that's a challenge. Busy today getting my lesson plans done for the class, which is already a lively group, even though we haven't "officially" started yet.

Red Pine Path - SOLD

Red Pine Path Oil on Canvas Board, 10" x 12" SOLD at $40.00 plus shipping. I've done this one before, I think I shot the photo in Maryland, but it could have been Massachsetts. Anyway, I used some transparent colors in this one, primarily the path itself, and doesn't it glow a bit? White of the canvas shining through.

Saltpepper 3 - SOLD

Saltpepper 3 Oil on Canvas Panel, 5" x 7" SOLD at $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping. Last one, I promise, for a while anyway. I'm not sure why this is an appealing subject matter, but I've had such fun with making every one a bit different.