Pond Light - SOLD

Pond Light Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD This is a pond in South Barre, which I've used before, but I like the light in this image and wanted to practice painting water today, as well as clouds. Thanks for looking.

Pink Clouds - SOLD

Pink Clouds Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. Sky practice today, with lots of lovely pink and lavender and orangey mixes. Enough left over, in facr, to do a painting of pink irises tomorrow. Thanks for looking.

Wauwinet Shadows - SOLD

Wauwinet Shadows Oil on Canvas panel, 12" x 16" SOLD at $70.00 plus shipping. A departure from the irises today, and back to landscapes. I'm really starting to itch to be outside, but today was simply still too cold and windy. There are robins though, so spring will eventually come to New England. Thanks for looking.

Iris Sectional Two - SOLD

Iris Sectional Two Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. This is a repeat of the Sectional piece from the other day, with a slight shift in the cropping of the photo. Since irises are my favorite flower, and I've been shooting photos of them for probably 20 years, I don't think I'll run out of images for awhile. This one is more subtle in person, the colors are somewhat garish here, especially the bright orange, which isn't really that intense. Thanks for looking.

Lavender Sectional Iris - SOLD

Lavender Sectional Iris
Oil on Stretched Canva, 12" x 12"
SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping.

Wihtout access to my Photoshop, I'm apologizing for the image here. Not as sharp and clear as I like, but you get the picture, (no pun intended.) I was able to install software to download photos onto my daughter's computer from my camera, so I will be able to continue to post my paintings, until my computer is healthy again. Thanks for looking.

Technical Difficulties...

Please Stand By. Remember when that used to appear on the TV from time to time? Yes, that dates us, doesn't it? I went to post my painting for today, and fizzled my computer. Guess I've stored one too many photos, so no painting for tonight, although I do have one to put up. I'll see if I can't work with my camera and my daughter's computer tomorrow, but for now..."we are experiencing technical difficulties..."

Iris Sectional One - SOLD

Iris Sectional One

Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12"

SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping.

I really do like doing these square formats with portions of flowers showing. They seem so comfortable to do, rich colors, sensual forms. I do expect to do more of them. Thanks for looking.

Portrait Party Swap

Jana in Green T watercolor on 300 lb Richeson Paper NFS My first watercolor portrait, and even though it doesn't exactly match the photo, it has a nice feel to it. This is Jana Bouc, one of the artists I've come to know a bit through EDM. We are participating in a Portrait Party Birthday Contest on the Portrait Party Swap blog. What fun. You can see Jana's portrait of me, on her blog, and although it's done as a caricature, it feels like me. Anyone can participate, so if you're interested, the instructions are on the Portrait Party blog, and all you need is a willing partner.

Red Tulips Two - SOLD

Red Tulips Two Watercolor on 140 lb Arches watercolor paper, 14.5" x 19" image size SOLD at $100 plus shipping. This one was done on thinner pape, which needed soaking, stretching and stapling, so the image size is smaller, but there's plenty of stapled paper to work with for matting and framing. Paper size is 15" x 21.5", or half sheet size. This is the more formal, straightforward version of the same tulips as yesterday, from a sitting viewpoint. I've posted the two side by side in the next post. Thanks for looking.

Side By Side

Just kind of fun to see the two watercolors together.

Red Tulips One - SOLD

Red Tulips One Watercolor on 300 lb watercolor paper, 15" x 22.5" SOLD at $100 plus shipping. My oldest grandson, Jimmy, aged 9, was shopping with the family, and noticed the tulips. He asked his Mom if he could bring them home for me, knowing how I love flowers. Wasn't that thoughtful? I drew out two, and this is the first. This is the stand up version. I'll try to finish the second one today, which is the same vase from a sitting viewpoint. Thanks for looking.

Garlic Oil Sketch - SOLD

Garlic Oil Sketch Oil on Canvas Board, 6" x 8" SOLD This one was just about the technique. I wanted to try paint layers in the background and foreground, letting them mingle. It worked for the background pretty well, you can see the underpainting showing through. For the rest, it's simply a swishy sketch, and if anyone likes it, please just email me and make an offer. Thanks for looking.

Easter Road - SOLD

Easter Road Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 16" Sold at $75.00 plus shipping. I've used this image before, but wanted to paint it again. It just seemed perfect for the Easter weekend. Can't you almost feel the sunshine at the end of the road? Thanks for looking.

Breaking Clouds - SOLD

Breaking Clouds Oil on Stretched Canvas, 20" x 20" SOLD at $100.00 plus $15.00 shipping. Back to the landscape today. This is a larger stretched canvas, but I just felt like having a roomy painting surface in front of me. Big brushes, space to move around. Here I was making an effort to use different grays, keep the colors subdued, to show a soft light. Thanks for looking.

Again Irises - SOLD

Again Irises Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. Now I thought I was going to stop for a bit on these, but okay, one more. Thanks for looking.

Hyacinths Watercolor - SOLD

Hyacinth One - SOLD

Hyacinth Two, with Inking added - SOLD

Watercolor on 300 lb Richeson paper, 11" x 15" SOLD at $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping each

The smell of this small Easter plant is so incredible, it was nice during naptime to just sit and smell it. No studio painting today, since my daughter and I are doing "sincere cleaning" (as opposed to "need to clean" basis) for tomorrow's appraisal of the house. I'm not really happy with either one of these, but that's how it is with the watercolors, hit or miss. Thanks for looking.

Blood Orange Reflections - SOLD

Blood Orange Reflections Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 10" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. Despite the fact that the color on these oranges is just wonderful, lining them up in various ways was just boring. Round, and more round. So I put them on a mirror , and much more interesting shapes and shadows. I still might try cutting one up, see what I can do with that. Thanks for looking.

Irises Squared - SOLD

Irises Squared Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. This is the third in the series, and although I'm not yet tired of looking at these guys, I'll move on to something else tomorrow. I will do more irises soon, but for now, this little series is finished. Thanks for looking.

Iris Close Up - SOLD

Iris Close Up Oil on Linen Panel, 9" x 12" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. I had all thsoe lovely yellows on my palette and I wasn't tired of the irises, so I rolled right into this one after finishing yesterday's painting. I really like the cropped feeling of this image, for the composition of it. The last of my linen panels for awhile, I do really like the feel of this fabric as a surface. Thanks for looking.

Iris in Lavender and Yellow - SOLD

Iris in Lavender and Yellow Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. I like working on stretched canvas, and I love the square format, so this one was just plain fun to paint. I think it's a good combination of swish and definition. Thanks for looking, and I hope you are all having a good weekend and avoiding the flu that's going about.