PinkTulip - SOLD

Pink Tulip Oil on Canvas Board, 6" x 8" SOLD at $20.00 plus shipping. Something soft and simple today. My granddaughter clipped the tulip for me from her mama's garden, and I set it across my little white bowl. I always have trouble with all the curves, but this one turned out pretty well. Thanks for looking.

Late Light - NA

Late Light Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" Not Available. You know the light that shines in your eyes in the late afternoon, back lighting whatever you see? That's what I was after here, using a photo I took at Fairways Condominiums, where I lived in Maryland. I love that late afternoon light. Thanks for looking.

Soft Pansies - NA

Soft Pansies / Diptych
6" x 8" each piece, 8" x 12" total
Not Available, Gone in for Revision.

These will be sold together, and are intended to be framed side by side. However, the buyer of the set may certainly decide to hang them separatedly as well. They will work independently. Thanks for looking, and thanks to Jill for the photos of her pansies. Aren't they delicate?

Frosted Purple - SOLD

Frosted Purple Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 16" SOLD at $145 plus shipping. The canvas panel I used for this one had a smooth weave to the fabric, so I was able to do some precise work on this with nice blending. You can click on the photo to see the brush work. The flower in the photo I used had this wonderful white blue frosted look to it, and I was able to paint that in. The background is a flat gray green, very pale. Thanks for looking.

Crazy Red - SOLD

Crazy Red Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" SOLD at $145 plus shipping. Okay, deep breath, here we go with the new price structure. This one has a base of $.80 an inch, and I've put it on the low end of the slide. Red irises, yes. I wanted to do something with a variety of reds today, so here's a rich red color scheme. Thanks for looking.

Iris for Anne - SOLD

Iris for Anne Oil on Stretched Canvas, 20" x 20" SOLD at $125.00 plus $25.00 shipping. This is a repeat of the square Garden Iris form the other day. It takes awhile to cover this large a canvas, so I've actually been working on it for two days. It was done as a promise at the old prices. Figuring under my new pricing structure, it would be somewhere between $267 and $294. I'd probably price it at $270. (Just getting you used to the new prices. Some of my collectors have told me they have sticker shock, LOL.) Thanks for looking.

Touch of Gold - Revised and SOLD

Touch of Gold 16" x 20" on Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas Revised and SOLD. (See December 30, 2008) The gallery wrap on this one is 1.5", buyer to specify color for the wrap. No frame necessary. This was an older painting that I really liked. I was especially happy with the way the top of the trees are in the light, and the shadow is falling across the bottoms. I revised it, changed a few things and am offering it again. When I bought this canvas, I didn't know what "Gallery Wrap" was, and thought it was just an extra deep canvas. So the wrapped edges were not painted, and can be painted to fit with the buyer's decor in whatever color of your choice. I've been told so many times over the past few months that my prices are too low, in spite of the fact that I've been slowly raising them. I got some coaching about this from a fellow daily painter, who does awesome work, Jimmy Longacre, who tells me that one professional way to go is by assigning a $/per square inch base price with fluctuation for size. Then once you have a base price for the size, there's a 5% slide on either side for complexity and difficulty level. It DOES make sense. Soooo...my new pricing structure, very mathematical (I won't tell you how much time I spent with the calculator) is basically this: $1.00 per square inch is my base. Smaller pieces go up to $1.40, and the larger pieces go down to $.60 per inch. A couple of examples, small, medium and large: 5" x 7" = 35 in. x 1.40 per inch= $49.00, slide is $46 to $52 10" x 12" = 120 in. x 1.00 per inch= $120.00, slide is $114 to $126 30" x 32" = 960 in. x .60 per inch= $576.00, slide is $547 to $604 The smaller pieces stay more of less in my current range, but my larger ones will certainly be more. For example, tomorrow this painting posted would be priced at (base of $.80 for 16" x 20") $250. (The slide is $243 to $269). I really don't think this is exhorbitant, and I can't imagine anyone minding paying $.80 per inch of work for a painting. So you see, this one is a "deal." Thanks for looking, and thanks for the patronage, always.

Iris in the Garden - SOLD

Iris in the Garden Oil on Stretched Canvas, 20" x 20" Sold on Commission. Big and busy, and really nice to do, from a photo taken by the lady who commissioned it. (Thanks, Judy) I apologize for the photo here, taken under flourescent lights tonight. I'll replace the photo tomorrow with a natural light shot. The painting isn't nearly as washed out as it appears here. Thanks for looking.

Pattycake Field SOLD

Pattycake Field Oil on Canvas Board, 6" x 8" SOLD at $25.00 plus $5.00 shipping. Since I was switching up to acrylics to do the chickadees below, I was throwing away my oil palette paints, and wanted to at least use some of the paint, not waste all of it. So I did this little painting out of imagination "as fast as I could" and call it Pattycake Field.Very fast, very thick and very swishy. Thanks for looking.

Chickadees for Michelle

Doorway Chicks, 7" x 22", Acrylic on Canvas Board Vertical Chicks, 8" x 20", Acrylic on Canvas Board Chickadees for Michelle Acrylic on Canvas Board SOLD on commission.

White Floral - SOLD

White Floral Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" SOLD at $80.00 plus shipping. I realized about half way into this one that I'd done it before, but smaller. Last time I called it a peony, but I'm truly not sure what it is. It might be a double tulip. At any rate, it's from a photo I took I don't remember where. So there you go. Thanks for looking.

Hydrangea Tumble - SOLD

Hydrangea Tumble Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" SOLD at $100 plus shipping. I gave my hydrangea plant to my grandson for his garden, so this one was done from some photos of a neighbor's bush in Maryland. It is one of those bushes that has both blue, lavender, and mauve colored blooms on it at the same time, very cool. Thanks for looking.

The Bug Hunter - SOLD

The Bug Hunter Oil on Canvas Board, 16" x 20" SOLD at $100.00 plus shipping. My grandson Jimmy and I went for a walk and I snapped this photo of him, my daughter's Nature Boy. He hunts bugs, and has a fancy zippered plastic and mesh container for them. Again, painting not so much the objects, as the way the light makes them look. I really like this one, especially the way the purples and blues work in it. Thanks for looking.

Sunlit Vines - SOLD

Sunlit Vines Oil on Canvas Board, 16" x 20" Sold at $125.00 plus shipping. Didn't this one turn out beautifully? Does anyone remember the radio ad that had as a quip "I aMAZE myself!" ? My daughter and I used to use it in fun, and now we can't remember the whole bit. Write me if you remember it, won't you? I've done this one before. I used it for a December 5th post, but it was smaller, and it's fun to see that I've added more subtleties here. Change and grow, that's what it's all about. Thanks for looking.

Golden Afternoon Creek - SOLD

Golden Afternoon Creek Oil on Stretched Canvas, 20" x 20" SOLD at $125.00 plus shipping. This is a larger painting, and I totally enjoyed doing it. I'm thinking about why I like doing "woods scenes" so much, and it occurred to me that a creek was the first plein air piece of artwork I ever did, back when I was in my teens. My parents framed it, and I think it's still floating around at one of my brother's homes. Maybe it's the sense of peace and stillness that I love, and I also love the dabbing, broken colors. Anyway, thanks for looking.

Blue Hydrangea '08 - SOLD

Blue Hydrangea '08 Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" SOLD at $100.00 plus shipping. Early this morning I was notified with screams that the little one, Katie, aged 2, had gotten into my paints. Oh my, did she ever. She had wandered downstairs and proceeded to sit in my painting chair and work on this painting, and herself, and everything else within range of the brushes. Her clothes had to be trashed. She had to be cleaned up with OMS (arms, hands, legs, belly, ears, cheeks) and then a bath, and the palette looked like someone had done a fingerpainting. Oh, yeah, somebody had! So I had HELP with this one. But didn't it turn out beautifully? Thanks for looking.

The Line Up - SOLD

The Line Up Oil on Canvas Board, 10" x 12" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. Yesterday I noticed how nice a little scene there was outside the basement door, where we had lined up the pansies I've been painting, waiting to be planted. I took my new hydrangea out and put it on the little wall with the rest, and pulled up one of the lawn chairs this afternoon during naps. There were good strong shadows, and the pots all showed up so nice. I didn't quite capture the color of the shadow of the cement wall here, but it's still a fresh little piece for someone. Thanks for looking.

Jonquils Abstracted - SOLD

Jonquils Abstracted Oil on Canvas Board, 6" x 8" SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping. This one is my personal favorite. I just took a big brush, loaded it with paint, and swished. It's clean and fresh, and it says "daffodils" to me. It's more of a suggestion of jonquils than a drawing, but maybe that's why I am really pleased with it, and happy to show it off. Thanks for looking.

Jonquils Three - SOLD

Jonquils Three Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. I'm getting closer to having some daffodils I like. The colors are closer, the forms more correct. A couple of them really please me. Thanks for looking.

Iris in Watercolor Pencil - SOLD

Iris in Watercolor Pencil Watercolor Pencil on 300 lb Richeson Paper, 11" x 15" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. I've been saving this study done for the last online class given by Kate Johnson, for a rainy day. Although it didn't rain today, it was another struggle with jonquils, which I'm determined to tackle again tomorrow. But for now, I'm glad to have something to post for today. The paper is actually more white than this shows, but the photo was taken in warm bulb light. Thanks for looking.