Cherries with Copper Pot

Cherries with Copper Pot Oil on Stretched Canvas, 5" x 7" Available at $50.00 plus $5.00 shipping Have you bought cherries yet this summer? I could not believe the price at the DC Safeway, wowza! So I bit the bullet and bought some anyway; filled this little copper pot (from the laundry room) with a bunch, but only painted three in front of the pot. Another cherry painting coming up, while I munch on a few as well. Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com

Victorian Lady Pansies - SOLD

Victorian Lady Pansies
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 5" x 5" x 1.25"
SOLD to my Pansy Collector
Detail Below


My cousin still had a few gasping pansies (getting too hot for these little guys), and I noticed this color, so very lovely. I have a collector who adores pansies, and had mentioned pink pansies as something she might want, so this one is for her. Sort of a soft pinky lavender, and it looks like something in a Victorian style, doesn't it?

Burnt Orange Pansies - SOLD

Burnt Orange Pansies Wrapped Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 8" x 10" x 1.25" SOLD. This one is for a collector who missed out on the burnt orange pansies last time, and requested a slightly larger one with gallery wrapped edges. I hope she likes it! I clipped a few lavender ones left in the garden, and they said it would be okay if I changed their color. Gracious little pansies. Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Hal's Hydrangeas - SOLD

Hal's Hydrangeas Oil on Gallery Wrapped Linen, 11" x 14" x 1.25" SOLD at $80.00 plus shipping. It's been awhile since I've posted, and it's because I've waited for paintings to dry, anticipating a little move. I'm house sitting for my favorite cousins (it's their way of giving me a little vacation, their place is so lovely.) I feel like I'm on sabbatical or something, or maybe at a retreat. Anyway, I found one of their handmade pottery pitchers ( made by my cousin) and clipped some nice hydrangea stems, and set it up with the soft yellow wall in shadow as background. It's the rougher type of painting I sometimes do and I like how it came out. The painting will continue around the sides, so no frame is needed. Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Coral Irises Set - SOLD

Coral Irises One and Two

Watercolor on 140 lb watercolor paper, 8" x 19" each

SOLD

Awhile back I did a full sized peony watercolor, and now these two are to be bookends to that piece, and to match corals in the decor of the room. The background color of the paper is actually the same, since they are painted on the same sheet of paper, but I adjusted them each a little differently. Didn't they turn out nicely?

Inviting Path Four - SOLD

Inviting Path Four

Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"

SOLD at $65.00 plus $10.00 shipping.

Since the collector who graciously bought Inviting Path Three really wanted a lighter look, and had asked me to lighten that one up, I decided to just paint one more of these guys, same size, but everything a little lighter. So she'll have her pick between Three and Four. Whichever one she doesn't want will become available.

Note: She picked this one, the lighter version, so Three is available.

Nel

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Pears and Lemons on Chartreuse - SOLD

Pears and Lemons on Chartreuse Oil on Canvas Panel, 10" x 10" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. The texture of a palette knife piece makes for an interesting still life painting, but I think I'll stick to landscapes for knife paintings, the precise edges of bowls and such are difficult with the knife. Hope all the dads out there have had a lovely Father's Day! I helped my two year old granddaughter, Kayla, cook a nice dinner for her daddy, but she refused to give up the balloon intended for "Daeey", saying "Balloon, mine!" in no uncertain terms. Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Lonely Pear - SOLD

Lonely Pear Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8" SOLD at $20.00 plus $7.00 shipping. Back to my brushes today for a bit. It seemed like such fast painting, after all the palette knife work. Doesn't this pear look lonely, like he missed the boat? Not the best composition, so I priced it low. It might appeal to someone for the colors. Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Inviting Path Three - NA

Inviting Path Three Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" Not available, revised on 9/24/10

This one is by request, for someone who wanted the second Inviting Path, but it was already sold. I think I'm done for the moment. Hope you haven't gotten too bored, looking at these. It's actually kind of fun, seeing how they turn out so varied, even though you're trying each time for the same thing.

Note: The collector chose the 4th version of this, which is lighter.

This one is available, but in it's revised version. Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Dappled Creek Two - NA

Dappled Creek Two Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14" Revised July 24, 2010. This one is repeat of the painting I posted on May 7. Again, a combination piece, both brushwork and palette knife. The water seems to feel better with brushwork, and the sky, but I love doing foliage with the knife. Thanks for looking! Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Fieldwork Two - SOLD

Fieldwork Two Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8" SOLD at $45.00 plus shipping. I liked the little square canvas of this field corner so much, that I painted it again. Isn't it interesting how differently two paintings of the same scene can turn out? Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com

Fieldwork One -SOLD

Fieldwork One Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8" SOLD at $45.00 plus shipping. I have a photo of a farm scene (from Butler's Orchard), which I've used before, but cropped it way down to just a corner of a hillside, love the colors. Palette knife work again. Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com

Inviting Path Two - SOLD

Inviting Path Two Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping. One of my regular collectors wanted the painting from day before yesterday, and so I painted the same thing again. Acceptance of a redo is always optional, so if you're interested in this one, send an email. Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Lovely Tree - NA

Lovely Tree Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 10" Not available, Gifted. I am posting this one again, since my membership to the DP Gallery had expired (oops!) when I last posted it, so it had limited exposure. Isn't this one lovely? Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Inviting Path - SOLD

Inviting Path Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping. Detail Below. This one is another version with the same photo reference I used on Tuesday, but in a square format. I like this one too! It's a combination technique with a brush underpainting, and then palette knife over top. That seems to be my new technique for landscapes. I DO really like the control and the fresh colors that you can get using a knife, though it does take a long time to finish. Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Varigated Lilac Pansy - SOLD

Varigated Lilac Pansy
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8"
SOLD at $35.00 plus $5.00 shipping

Another of the pansies, while they are still blooming, though they are getting "leggy." And of course, as long as they are still selling, grin. (It does figure into my painting decisions.) Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Lace in the Treetops - SOLD

Lace in the Treetops Oil on Stretched Linen, 11" x 14" SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping. This one is really nice. I started it with brushes, and concentrated on getting some good mid tones, which I have some trouble with, and then switched over to palette knives. I also tried to work a little faster than I do normally with the knife, and consequently, got some real loose, swirly strokes. These might also be my favorite colors for a landscape, the softer mauves and lavenders with greens. Thanks for looking! Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Burnt Orange Pansies - SOLD

Burnt Orange Pansies Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 8" x 8" x 1.5" SOLD at $40.00 plus shipping. You know that pansy color? It's an orangey-browny-maroony color that is just so enticing to try to paint. This is one of those paintings that's so much better in person, the subtleties are lost in the photography here. The pansies wrap around top, sides and bottom, so no frame is needed. Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Rainbow Apples One and Two

Rainbow Apples One Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8" SOLD at $35.00 plus $5.00 shipping. Rainbow Apples Two Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8" Reposted on January 8, 2011. Aren't these fun? I painted the first one as I would have done an underpainting for a palette knife painting, but completed the masses. Then I wondered what would happen if I blended the colors, as though it were a "normal" still life painting. So I did a second one. The colors did muddy a bit, but it still looks neat. I was also thinking about what a great exercise (value study) this would be for an intermediate class in oils, which is something I'm thinking about for fall. Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/

Shades of Green - NA

Shades of Green Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14" Not available. Detail below. I did something a little different today. I haven't done this before, but have heard of painters who do. I used one of my Massachusetts photos on my computer screen to paint from. My laptop was far enough away that it almost felt like plein air painting, except of course, no changes in light and no bugs, but then no fresh air and bird sounds either. Another palette knife painting, which I am so enjoying. Nel http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/