Rose Face and Two Pears

Rose Face
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
Available.

Three Pears
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

A couple of leftovers, done in oils over old acrylic paintings.
The pears are done with a palette knife, so highly textured.

Knife Landscape - SOLD

Knife Landscape
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Painting over some canvas panels previously used for class. This one is done with a palette knife, and does have some nice subtle passages in it.

Pink Tulips - SOLD

Pink Tulips
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Some happy pink for a sloppy, cold December day.

Young Man - SOLD

Young Man
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Close Up Below:

I thought I would try some faces. Not portraits, mind you, just faces off the Internet. Perhaps the likenesses will come with practice, because although this looks like a young man, it isn't very close to the reference.

Farmhouse on the Hill - SOLD

Farmhouse on the Hill
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

I thought this one was sold, but since I couldn't promise pre-Christmas delivery, the collector decided to pass on it. Hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas Day yesterday.

Snowy Stream - SOLD

Snowy Stream
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Wishing you each and every one a blessed Christmas, and a meaningful and prosperous 2013.

Candy Cane Floral - SOLD

Candy Cane Floral
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 10" x 10" x 1.5"
No frame is needed.
SOLD.

Okay, it's a stretch, isn't it? But it did remind me of a candy cane when I was painting it.
I haven't posted for a few days, since once we got our Internet back, I got sick with the flu. (Maybe getting a flu shot would have been a good idea, coulda shoulda woulda.)

Hope all your plans for Christmas are shaping up nicely, and you are well.

Knife Landscape, Small

Knife Landscape, Small
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8"
Available.

If you are interested in this little palette knife landscape, please send an email to NelVanL@aol.com.
Don't worry if I don't respond right away, as our Internet is down at home (I'm having withdrawal) and I'm writing from our local McDonalds. (No TV either, which means no CNN in the background while I paint.)

This is what happens to lemon paintings that don't turn out well, or earn their keep by selling.
Bad lemons! December 15. (or maybe the painter wasn't quite on the ball...)

Detail (close -up) Below:

Farmhouse on a Hill - SOLD

Farmhouse on a Hill
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

This is another one of the Saturday paintings, done last evening and this morning.

Best-Offer Class Paintings - SOLD

Fall Landscape
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Winter Light, Revised
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 20"
SOLD.

We had a very long class (8 hours) yesterday (my paint-along with Johannes Vloothuis) and out of the three paintings Joe did, I was only able to complete one, the fall landscape. Today I revised the winter light piece, (thicker tree trunks, more barkiness) and I am offering the two at "best offer" prices. Please send an email to NelVanL@aol.com if you are interested in making an offer on either one. Please don't forget that I'll add $7 shipping to the smaller one, and $12 shipping to the larger one.

Lemons and Brush Pot - NA

Lemons and Brush Pot
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 9"
Not available.

A little still life for a Saturday morning.

Sale Paintings - SOLD

Frosted Hydrangeas
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD.

The Open Path
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD.

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

Green Bower
Acrylic on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Lavender Wildflowers
Acrylic on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Sunset Field
Acrylic on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Poinsettia
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD.

Time for a pre-Christmas sale.
If you are interested in more than one painting, I can ship them together, and you pay shipping once.

Winter Light -SOLD

Winter Light
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 20"
SOLD.

This was our painting (mine is somewhat altered from the class painting) for this past Saturday, but because my little granddaughter, Kayla, was here visiting, I only got a couple of hours of painting in. Then used the video and finished it up yesterday and today, several hours each day. Don't you love the colors?

I do plan on doing it again, and now that I know where I'm going, I think I'll have even more success.

Open Path - SOLD

The Open Path
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD.

A revision of an earlier painting called "Greens."

Red Bowl with Holly - SOLD

Red Bowl with Holly
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD.

Another holly clipping from the neighbor's hugs bush.

Poinsettia - SOLD

Poinsettia
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 112"
SOLD.

A pretty poinsettia from the local grocery store, an interesting subject for this time of the year.

Winter Gold - SOLD

Winter Gold
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14"
SOLD.

I wanted to see how different a pre-painting would be from the guided step-by-step painting we'll do in class tomorrow, so I used tomorrow's reference photo and did this one. We'll see what changes there are tomorrow.

Winter Woods Sunset - SOLD

Winter Woods Sunset
Acrylics on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Done with my private student this afternoon.

Bowl of Holly - SOLD

Bowl of Holly (on Holly Dishcloth)
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10"
SOLD.

I clipped a couple of sprigs from the neighbor's bush, and used a dishtowel that I found at Tuesday Morning. Fun stuff.

Pink Clouds and Wildflowers

Pink Clouds and Wildflowers
Oil over Acrylic, on canvas panel, 9" x 12"
Available.

Just a happy little landscape, done over yet another class painting.

Little Stone Church, Winter - SOLD

Little Stone Church, Winter
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD.

I participated in our online class yesterday with Johannes Vloothuis ,which is a 6 hour paint-along, and although he was doing his church in watercolor, I picked up a lot of good information for oils as well. Isn't this charming? Thanks for looking.

Sky and Wildflowers - SOLD

Sky and Wildflowers (or maybe Tulips?)
Oil over Acrylics on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Another class piece, painted over with oils.
At first I was thinking wildflowers, but now they look a bit like tulips to me.

Greens - SOLD

Greens
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
Revised and SOLD.

Playing with all sorts of greens here, with pink and lavender counterpoints.

Sunset Lavender Fields - SOLD

Sunset Lavender Fields
Oil over acrylic on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Done with my private student this afternoon.

Marsh Light - SOLD

Marsh Light
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

This is another oil over acrylics, a painting started for class, and never completed.
(I hate to waste canvas.)
You can decide if it's sunrise or sunset light.

Fall Leftovers - SOLD

Fall Leftovers
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

This one started out as a fall (acrylic) demo in class, but we didn't complete it. So today, so as not to waste the canvas, I finished it in oils. I left little tiny bits of the underpainting showing through, a nice effect. Click to see it larger.

Pink, Green Hydrangea - SOLD

Pink, Green Hydrangea
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
Revised and SOLD.

Since I had a lot of the greens left over from the Hydrangeas commission, I decided to do one for the blog.
The composition is a little different for me, I like it.

Hydrangea Set - SOLD

Hydrangea Set: SOLD

Each 16" x 16" x 1.5"

Oils on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

I think the set turned out nicely. Just have to paint the bottoms and a couple of the sides and tops.

Mountains and Shoreline - SOLD

Mountains and Shoreline
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 20"
SOLD.

I was way out of my comfort zone on this one, which was done as a follow-along painting with Johannes Vloothuis yesterday. The 6 hour class was through a video stream. His palette is different than mine, and I couldn't get the reference photos (later I used Firefox and was able to get them) he was using, so I really was limping along.(Besides not "knowing" mountains.) But I thought it might appeal to someone, so here we are.

Blue Sky of November - SOLD

Blue Sky of November
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD.

A repeat post, since this one hasn't sold yet.

Landscape Color Play - SOLD

Landscape Color Play
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 20"
SOLD.

I finished up revisions on a large canvas today, done by request, so for the blog, I just wanted to redo an older canvas. Using the palette knife technique with color merges, this evolved. You can click on the image to see some of the texture.

Soft Sky, Country Fields - SOLD

Soft Sky, Country Fields
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD.

This  one is a revision of the Delaware Sky I posted about a week ago. I still love the sky, but made the foreground a little lighter, added the field grass.

Pear and Lemon - SOLD

Pear and Lemon
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 6" x 6"
SOLD.

A quick fruit portrait for today. Nice for a kitchen corner, with a little frame.

Pears on Artichoke Dish Towel - SOLD

Pears on Artichoke Dish Towel
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD.

It's been awhile since I did anything complicated with a still life, but I was gifted some treasures from Tuesday Morning, (thanks so much, B.) and a couple of new dish towels were calling me to paint them. The cloth here is a graphic artichoke design, and I love the colors. The light is actually a soft cream color, not white.

Country Road, Revised - SOLD

Country Road, Revised
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD..

I softened the hard lines of the road, balanced the foliage a little more, and reshaped to simplify some of the cast shadows. I also added dropped leaves in the road, which makes more sense.

Fence Glories - SOLD

Fence Glories
Oil on Canvas Panel, 11" x 14"
SOLD.

This one was done by request, but the collector decided to pass on it.
So it now becomes available.
The fence looks so bare now, since the Morning Glories got nipped, and I had to tear them all down.
I plan to have more next year, yay!

Country Road, NA

Country Road, NA
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"

Revised on 11/15/2012

Delaware Sky - NA

Delaware Sky
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
Revised and SOLD.

A simple sky study for today.