Summer Blues - SOLD

Summer Blues
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10"
SOLD.

While the hydrangeas last, another little painting from life.

Dancing Beach Towels - SOLD

Dancing Beach Towels
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 24" x 30"
SOLD - Going to My Favorite Beach House.

This is a revision of an older painting, which has been bugging me for about a year now, hanging out of the way on a back wall. The towels always looked like they were dragging on the ground, there was too much boring sky, and there was a wrong-sized chair and laundry basket in the foreground (very carefully drawn and painted, but the wrong size.) I finally got just the combination of courage and pissed-offedness to attack it properly, doing surgery on the stuff that wasn't working. I actually like it now, but don't look too closely at what the shadows are doing. I know... it's artistic license. It's too big to ship, so it's a pick up.
Thanks for looking!

Single Sunflower, Revised - SOLD

Single Sunflower, Revised
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8"
SOLD.

And this is what it looked like before (below). Much improved, yes?
I trimmed it up, added some highlight yellow, and changed the background color. I like it a lot better now.

Beach Baby - SOLD

Beach Baby
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Just for a change of pace, a summery little beach baby. I think I may have gotten the reference photo from Flickr, I don't remember, it's been sitting in my photo resources for awhile now. As happens with figures, as soon as I had completed this one, I wanted to do it again, to improve it. Always it's the underlying drawing that needs fixing. Still in all, I think she is sweet.

Last of the Sunflowers - SOLD

Last of the Sunflowers
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14"
SOLD.

Happy Fourth, everyone!
Hope you have plans for a nice picnic or a get together, backyard barbecue, go see the fireworks, all that lovely family stuff. Especially if you have kids or grandkids!

When I went to move my sunflowers around, all the petals started falling off. They have already curled up, but I figured I could fudge that. So this will be the last of the current sunflower series. Hope you have enjoyed it.

Clouds and River - SOLD

Clouds and River
Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

A quick little landscape, since I've been missing painting clouds.

July Sunflowers - SOLD

July Sunflowers
Oil on canvas panel, 12" x 16"
SOLD.

I'm still experimenting with the greenish background. This time I used Viridian, Lavender and White, and I'm pretty happy with it. Not too dark and just subtle enough. This is the largest of the oils of sunflowers so far. I still have to figure out how not to have a double light source, as I have one light on my palette to the right, and one light behind me to the left, and it makes for confusing light on my subject.

Summer Ramble - SOLD

Summer Ramble
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 16"
SOLD.

A landscape for a nice change. Fresh, yes?

Sunflowers on Blue-Grey - Sold

Sunflowers on Blue-Grey
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14"
SOLD.

I turned my jar around to make these guys face more front. No guilty kids today.

Monday Sunflowers - SOLD

Monday Sunflowers
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"
SOLD.

I didn't realize it when I was sketching these out, but they remind me of kids...."Who marked with crayons on the wall?"...and everybody turns away. Wasn't me...Crayons?...Where?

Summer Landscape, Sunflower (SOLD)

Sunflower on Grey-Green
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 9" x 12"
SOLD.

Experimenting with a green-grey background.

Summer Landscape
Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 16"
Available.

A landscape for a change, after all the florals.

Single Sunflower - SOLD

Single Sunflower
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8"
Rvised and SOLD..

A little one for today.