Pink Iris 6 - SOLD

Pink iris 6 Oil on Canvas Panel, 10" x 12" ASOLD. I like this one. I found a shape of another colored iris that I really liked, and borrowed it for the shape here. That worked!

Pink Iris 5 - SOLD

Pink Iris 5 Oil on Canvas Panel, 10" x 12" SOLD. Another one with soft colors. Slight changes from the earlier delicate iris in this series. Number 3, I think.

Pink Iris 4 - SOLD

Pink Iris 4 Oil on Canvas Panel, 10" x 12" SOLD at $30.00 plus shipping. Another in the Pink Iris series.

Pink Iris 3 - SOLD

Pink Iris 3 Oil on Canvas Panel, 10" x 12" Sold at $50.00 plus shipping. I was steering towards delicate on this one. You know that almost white soft pink color? I'm not sure how successful I was with that, but I do like the background a lot.

Pink Iris 2- SOLD

Pink Iris 2 Oik on Canvas Panel, 10" x 12" SSOLD Another in the pink iris series. Fun trying to see how many subtle shades of pink I can come up with. I plan to do about six or seven of these, and the collector can then pick and choose from the set.

Pink Iris 1 - NA

Pink Iris 1 Oil on Canvas Panel, 10" x 12" Not Available. I'm trying to get back into the swing of painting, and slowly getting better from my fall. Still hobbling around with a walker, but each day is a little better, a little less pain. This may be part of a four iris series for a commission, I'll see if the collector likes it.

Rocky Creek - SOLD

Rocky Creek Oil on Linen Panel, 6" x 6" Sold at sale price of $10.00. This little linen panel was so slick to work on. Maybe becasue it's oil primed, but I did want to try linen again. It could be also that I've forgotten how to paint. That happens when you're away for a few days. Slowly getting better.

Small Peony - SOLD

Small Peony Oil on Linen Panel, 6" x 6" Sold at Sale price of $10.00 I am borrowing my daughter's computer again, since mine has died. You don't want to know how long it takes me to hobble sideways up the stairs, leaving the old lady security of my walker at the bottom of the steps for my return. Since troubles come in threes, I am waiting to see what's next. Meanwhile, I have been able to get out to the studio to paint a bit,. This one is actually more purple pink (fushia) than it looks here on this monitor. SALE: Because it is difficult for me to paint and post right now, I am having a "Make an Offer" Sale. I will accept any reasonable offer for the paintings that have not sold. If you have seen a painting that you like, but it was a little too much, make an offer now before it's gone. Simply scroll backwards in the blog to see what's still unsold. Thanks, everyone, in advance.

Simple Serene - SOLD

Simple Serene Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD at $40.00 plus shipping. A small landscape with the emphasis on trunks and branches in the trees.

Magnolia 5 - SOLD

Magnolia 5 Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board, 16" x 16" SOLD. This one was a long time in getting done, as I just couldn't find single canvases in 16" x 16". I did find them at Jerry's (where I do some online ordering of art supplies) but I would have had to buy two boxes of 6 each, I think it was. I finally went to Lowes, where a very nice guy named Tom cut a huge sheet of masonite into pieces for me. (Thank you, Tom!) It took quite some time with him kneeling and measuring, and I really appreciated it, so gave him a business card for his wife and a little discount promise. I like the way this one turned out, and it feels good to have one more request completed.

Drapery Study with Plums - SOLD

Drapery Study with Plums Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14' SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. Sometimes you have to wait a while to let a painting speak, as it were. This one never quite hit it with the pear, and this weekend it just said "plums" and so I revised it. I like it so very much better now. I also revised the background color to harmonize with the other colors, ahhh, much better now. And extended the back bit of drapery to look more natural. This is how it looked before:

Little Waterfall - SOLD

Little Waterfall, from the Creeks of Home Series Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" Sols at Sale Price. Another small creek painting. I am just enchanted with the colors of the water in creeks, where the light shines through and shows the color of the creek bed underneath. It's a nice little series for me. Thanks for looking.

Bowl of Beads

Bowl of Beads Watercolor Pencil on 300 lb Richeson Watercolor paper Image size is 7" x 11" on 11" x 15" paper Available at $40.00 plus shipping. Happy Mardi Gras, everyone! It's a big deal here in Louisiana, the kids had Fat Monday and today off school. Our first time experiencing the traditions of Mardi Gras, some of them anyway. Like King Cake, which I'd never heard of. We walked up to the end of the neighborhood on Saturday to watch a parade go by, people on horseback, people in the LA version of floats (flatbeds decorated, and toting people, barbeques, port-a-potties), all of them throwing treats to the crowds: we got plastic cups, small toys, lots and lots of strings of beads, candy, stuffed animals, you name it. People passed out beer, jello shots, yes, lots of drinking going on too. All very happy and friendly, and you're supposed to call to the folks with treats "Throw me sumthin, mista!" So we have a thousand strings of beads around the house, and I took pieces of my babysitting time yesterday while my daughter, sil, and his visiting brother went to New Orleans to draw this bowl of beads.

Rocks and Ripples - SOLD

Rocks and Ripples Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12" SOLD at $35.00 plus shipping. Isn't this fun? It was fun to do as well. I guess once you do two or more it becomes a series, so it would seem that I am doing a "creek" series, which is just fine with me. I think they are wonderful to paint. This was from one of my Maryland creek photos, a small sectional of one photo. It was very swishy to paint.

Regal Onions - SOLD

Regal Onions Oil on Canvas Panel, 8" x 8" SOLD at $40.00 plus $5.00 shipping (in the US) I have been thinking that maybe I don't love my darks enough. I wanted to try something with more mystery to it, more rich dark. So I shone my light on these two onions, then built a tent with some cardboard to block a good deal of the light, and used some purple paper underneath. The back onion was actually even darker than this, but it seems to work here. What do you think?

Pink Peony in Light - SOLD

Pink Peony in Light Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16" x 20" SOLD at $125.00 plus shipping This one was not so much fun to do, I probably should have mapped it out first, but drew it in pencil and then just started painting, section by section, going at it blind. I was fortunate that it turned out as well as it did, but I'll probably do it again, and tone the canvas in blocks next time. It does have a feeling of sunlight on it, which is what I was going for.

A Couple of Medium Onions - SOLD

A Couple of Medium Onions Oil on Canvas Panel, 8" x 8" SOLD at $35.00 plus $5.00 shipping (in the US) This just felt like a part of a recipe. Take a couple of medium onions, chop fine.... Not easy colors to see and paint.

Looking Into Hydrangeas - SOLD

Looking Into Hydrangeas Oil on Canvas Panel, 9" x 12" SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping. Because I've been working with spots of paint lately (all the Broken Color landscapes), some of my hyrdrangea photos caught my eye again. But I wanted to do them a little differently than what I've done in the past, so this one is less formal, less organized. It's more like you're just glancing into the bush, seeing parts of the glorious blossoms. I like the way it turned out.

The Creeks of Home - SOLD

The Creeks of Home, in memory of Ben Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. I still had a lot of greens left over from yesterday, so wanted to do a water and green scene. Found one of my creek photos from Maryland, and as I was working on this one, I was thinking of my brother Ben, who was always to the creek first, did amazing feats of daring, and built the most incredible "forts" at our childhood creek. I hope you were fortunate enough to grow up in and around creeks, they are a special set of memories.

Grogan Road 2 - SOLD

Grogan Road 2 Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. A smaller version of the landscape from the other day. "Broken Road" again. I also wanted to be able to use this as a step-by-step, so took lots of photos, start to finish. We are studying landscapes right now in the class I'm teaching, a very big subject indeed, so I need lots of demos. I am still really liking these trees.