Peony - SOLD

Peony Oil on Linen Panel, 9" x 12" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. Aren't you just eager for flowers, for growing things? This is from some photos I took a couple of years back in the neighbor's yard in Maryland. She grew wonderful peonies. Thanks for looking.

Minneolas - SOLD

Minneolas Oil on Canvas board, 8" x 10" SOLD at $20.00 plus shipping. Have you seen these? I picked some up at the produce place the other day, along with the tomatoes, and they have a Sunkist label on them. Beautiful orange red skins and these odd little knobs at the growing end. I had to try painting them, and got to use some of my more transparent paint colors. Thanks for looking.

Marsh Morning - SOLD

Marsh Morning Oil on Linen Panel, 11" x 14" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. I wanted something beautiful to paint today, and this photo of the morning light on a marsh did it for me. It was pure pleasure to paint. I am so grateful for the beauty that God gives us to enjoy every day. Thanks for looking.

Waterfall - NA

Waterfall
Watercolor Crayons on Richeson 300 lb Rough Paper, 11" x 15"
Not Available

New toys to play with. Lyra Aquacolors are a densely pigmented water soluble crayon (yes, crayon) that you can draw with dry and then wet to watercolor, or use a wet brush to pick up pigment from the crayon and simply paint. Very fun. This one was done as an exercise on depicting water for Kate Johnson's watercolor pencil class, and the photo was taken and shared by a classmate. Thanks for looking.

Tomato Six Pack SOLD

Tomato Six Pack Oil on Linen Panel, 9" x 12" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. I stopped with my friend Susan from church, at a wonderful little fruit and veggie place today, and bought these tomatoes, which really are on a six stem vine. Very cool. They reminded me of a six pack, a natural one, that is. Thanks for looking.

Grapes with Orange

Grapes with Orange Oil on Linen Panel, 9" x 12" Available at $50.00 plus shipping. I blocked this one in, and started to "finesse" it, blending, overworking, clarifying lines, but then, stopped myself. Before I got to the grapes and the orange. I'm trying to paint more freshly and directly. Aren't the grapes nice that way? Thanks for looking.

Floral Watercolor /Negative Painting - NA

Floral Watercolor/ Negative Painting
Watercolor on 300 lb Cold Press Paper, 15.5" x 17"
Not available.

This one was done as a demonstration in my watercolor class (a couple of years ago), and then finished in detail later because I liked it so well. We were working on negative painting, painting the space rather than the form, explained so well by Linda Kemp in her fine and inspiring books. It could be cropped almost anywhere and still make sense. Thanks for looking.

Light with Apples - SOLD

Light with Apples Oil on Linen Panel, 9" x 12" SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping. While I was painting this one, which is really about light and lost edges, I kept thinking of the little rhymne that goes: One for the Money Two for the Show Three to Get Ready, (but then in my head it was...) Go, Dogs, Go! I know that isn't right, but you know that children's book, Go, Dogs, Go! Can you tell that I live with kids? Thanks for looking.

Humility - SOLD

Humility Oil on Canvas Board, 10" x 12" SOLD My first self portrait, and it gives me great humility to post it. Looks like some old witchy woman, and the sad part is, not that it doesn't look like me, but oh goodness, that it DOES. At one point in the sketch, my brother popped out of the face, which was weird. "Oh, Hi Bruce, there you are!" My daughter says that the nose and face are too long, so next attempt, I'll give myself better light, and maybe be kinder (whatever helps, right?) Nothing much to do about the dumbo ears and the saggy bags, though. Sigh. Thanks for looking.

Fall Creek Scene - SOLD

Fall Creek Scene Watercolor Pencil on 140 lb Rough Richeson Paper, 8.5" x 11" Sold at $40.00 plus $5.00 shipping. A small departure today, since I got a new block of nice watercolor paper, and am working on some exercises for the online Watercolor Pencil Class given by Kate Johnson. This one took as much time as any watercolor, since it's all strokes of pencil, and then water added to the pigment. It still has a bit of sketchy feel to it, since some of the pencil marks are left showing. Done from a resource photo in the Wet Canvas library. Thanks for looking.

Promising Thoughts - SOLD

Promising Thoughts

Oil on Linen Board, 11" x 14"

SOLD at $80.00 plus shipping.

It's snowing tonight again. It snowed and slushed yesterday. My daughter shoveled today and we'll probably have to shovel again tomorrow. No wonder everyone here is thinking of green and warm, sunshine and soft skies right now. This one was just a delight to paint. I think that because linen is more expensive, I slow down and simply enjoy the feel of it under my brush. So satisfying. Thanks for looking.

Mug of Tea - SOLD

Mug of Tea Oil on Canvas Board, 6" x 8" SOLD at $20.00 plus shipping. I picked up this mug at a consignment shop, and I like the shape of it. It has Starbucks etched into the glass, but it's easily ignored. I've been thinking what to paint with it, so today I just made some tea, and set it on beige paper. This is more towards how I want to paint, realistic to a point, but still painterly, using the beauty of the oils themselves. Thanks for looking. As an aside: Welcome to the World, little miss Kayla, my newborn granddaughter!

Garlic Abstracted - SOLD

Garlic Abstracted Oil on Canvas Board, 10" x 12" Sold at $70.00 plus shipping. On this one I just tried to get the basic shapes and values. Big brushes and swishy strokes, lots of paint. It came out pretty stark, I think, but somehow I really like it, too. Thanks for looking.

Small Boat Waiting - SOLD

Small Boat Waiting Oil on Canvas Board, 10" x 12" Sold at $25.00 plus $40.00 shipping, this one to Australia. A quick painting today with soft colors and the thought of summertime. Thanks for looking.

Leaning Irises - SOLD

Leaning Irises Watercolor on 300 lb CP Arches Paper, 22.5" x 16" Half Sheet Size Sold at $80.00 This is the last of the "winter iris" paintings, drawn out in May last spring, and waiting to be painted. I had so many beautiful plants, that there was no time to paint them all. So they just got drawn, and now it's fun to paint them. Thanks for looking.

Anyway Roses in Rose - SOLD

Anyway Roses in Rose Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 16" Sold at $75.00 plus shipping. Practice with Roses. The top photo is the actual way I painted this one, but in Photoshop, I realized that it could actually be hung any way at all, and still look correct. For the resource, I used a couple of photos and a couple of silk roses from the craft store. And I definitely got some practice painting roses. Thanks for looking.

White Tulip - SOLD

White Tulip 10" x 12", Oil on Canvas Board Sold at $60.00 plus shipping. In Maryland, if you're lucky to live close to Brookside Gardens, there are new delights almost every week during the spring and summer. The outdoor tulip displays were amazing year before last, and I took some photos of them, always intending to paint them "someday." It's today. Thanks for looking.

Tree Study with Birches - SOLD

Tree Study with Birches Oil on Canvas board, 12" x 16" Sold at $70.00 plus shipping. I had a lot of reds and oranges left from the orange floral painting, and didn't want to waste them (expensive colors in oil), so found this photo of the wonderful trees at the top of my daughter's driveway. You see a lot of these trees in this part of the country, gnarly trunks covered with lichen, and of course, birches. This was taken in the fall, when some trees had lost their leaves already, but there was still a lot of color. Thanks for looking.

Purple Iris Profusion - SOLD

Purple Iris Profusion Watercolor on Lanaquarelle, 300 lb paper, full sheet 22.5" x 30" Sold at $130.00 plus $20 shipping. This is another of the drawn-out but not painted paintings. It's on a full sheet of Lanaquarelle, which is an incrdibly soft paper. I don't remember using it to paint on before, but the paint doesn't run nearly as much as on other paper I've used, and it works well for the modeling I do on the petals. This one took a lot of time, and I'm pleased with the final result. Thanks for looking.

Orange Floral - SOLD

Orange Floral Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 8" x 10" Wrap is 1.5" Depth Sold at $60.00 plus shipping. Just for a blaze of color, lots of reds, yellows and oranges, to offset the cold and grey of winter. This one needs no frame, since it's gallery wrapped and painted around all four sides. See detail below. Thanks for looking. Detail of wrapped edge.