Long Landscape
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 16"
SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping.
Detail Below.
Another palette knife landscape, also covering up another painting that didn't work. This time I was able to do a bit of manipulating with clouds and sky. That seems to have worked. This is a fairly bright painting, lots of fresh color, not much subdued here. You can see from the detail how much paint gets layered on the canvas this way.
Just a Pear
Oil on Linen Panel, 6" x 6"
SOLD at $35.00 plus $5.00 shipping.
Slowly using up my very small panels. I was thinking about "taking a stand" while I was painting this one, and how sometimes that's fairly precarious, as this pear seems to be. A little ponder for painting.
Grogan Road, Barre
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 18" x 24"
SOLD at $80.00 plus shipping.
This is one of my favorite paintings, but it never sold. I did some revising on it, and thought I'd offer it again, and lower the price a bit. It does have some presence , at the larger size. I love the light on the tree trunks here.
Forest Fantasy Walk
Oil on Canvas Panel, 16" x 20"
SOLD at $65.00 plus $15.00 shipping.
This is a repeat of the Techniques Landscape I did a couple of weeks back, done by request for a collector who wanted that one, but it was already sold. I used both brush and palette knife for this one, mostly the knife, since it makes such neat marks. I left the underpainting to dry overnight, and then went back on top with the knife, which worked out well. Since I had the first painting to work from, this one is more deliberate looking.
Blustery
Oil on Gessoed Board, approx. 16" x 16"
SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping.
Detail Below
A combination painting, some brushwork, some palette knife work. I do like the palette knife for foliage, but not so much for sky and water, though I did use it a little in both areas. I really am happy with the sky in this one, and if you wanted to, you could saw the bottom of the painting right off, to accentuate the sky more. I mean, of course, if you bought it, you could, LOL.
Transitions Pepper
Oil on Linen Panel, 6" x 6"
SOLD at $35.00 plus $5.00 shipping.
Another in the "Just a..." series, using up the little linen panels. This was an interesting pepper, with a lovely gradual transition color from green to yellow.
Palette Knife Landscape
Oil on Canvas Panel, 8" x 8"
SOLD at $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping.
I worked on two terrible paintings today, and gave up. Not my day to paint, one is scraped off, the other is about to be scraped. But I did this one the other day, just a simple imaginary scene, without much to it. Done with the palette knife, I wanted to see if a sky would work. Not so well, but the land seems to be very easy with the palette knife, foilage especially.
Orchard Road, Palette Knife
Oil on Canvas Panel, 11" x 14"
SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping.
Detail Below.
The palette knife is a cool but tricky tool for painting. I wanted to show the trunk in detail, because it came out with such "magic" to it. Those happy accidents can happen with brushes too, but it's very different with the palette knife. I have no idea what I did that made this work so well. There is a lot of subtlety in this piece that doesn't show up in the photo, but by seeing the detail, you can imagine the kinds of things happening in the rest of the painting.
Just a Pepper
Oil on Canvas Panel, 8" x 8"
SOLD.
I must admit that I reclaimed this from a painting that didn't sell, simply perking it up and changing the background. Like it much better now.
Pair of Purples
Just an Apple
Oil on Linen Panel, 6" x 6"
SOLD at $35.00 plus $5.00 shipping
The 6" x 6" panels in linen that I bought are just sitting, since I can't seem to paint that small, so I thought to do a "Just an..." series, using these little ones up. This will be the first, just an apple. Thanks for looking.
Techniques Landscape
Oil on Canvas Board, 16" x 20"
SOLD at $65.00 plus $15.00 shipping.
Detail Below
This one is big, another reclaimed canvas (used to be sunflowers.) I was mainly interested in playing again with the palette knife technique to see if I could combine broken color painting, with splots and dots, with the palette knife work. I haven't yet figured out how to put color onto a canvas with a knife, but once it's there, I'm getting more of a feel for how to mush it around. The detail shows a bit of the combination of blending with the knife, and dotting with the brush. It's a fun way to paint, but really not exact. I don't think I'd attempt much but a landscape yet.
Wild Blooming
Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 12"
SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping.
I have always loved the photo I took of this wild spot in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Gone now, razed to the ground, but it must have been so beautiful in it's heyday. There was a lovely old Victorian house there too, which I painted as "Tattered Lady" but I'm sure that's gone as well. Anyway, I really am happy with the way this one turned out, the colors and shapes came together so well. Love it when a painting works!
Blowing In
Palette Knife Painting
Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 12"
SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping.
Detail Below.
I think I must be in an "experimental" phase, since I'm a little restless doing the same things I've done before. Maybe I need new material to paint from. At any rate, while we were in the middle of a nice fierce thunderstorm yesterday, I mixed up all the leftover greens, blues, purples on my palette into neat greys and muted colors, then did this with a palette knife, in a polishing sort of style. Using just the tip of the knife to push the paint into the little canvas divets. I worked from memories of places similar to this, and based it on what was happening outdoors. I really like the colors and flavor of it.
Bending Irises
Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board, approx 16" x 16"
Available at $80.00 plus shipping.
A little different point of view, looking into a couple of irises in bending positions. I liked the complexity of this one, and all the colored edges. Thanks for looking.
Cherub Face Sketch
Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 12"
Not Available, have reclaimed the canvas.
I really debated whether to post today's effort or not. I love the look of portraits that have carefully rendered faces, and sketchy backgrounds, so that's what I was aiming for. There is still some raw canvas in this sketch, just so you know. But..the face isn't really where I wanted it to be. Not quite as cute as the statue really is. But one thing I have learned, is that sometimes what I am not happy with, someone else may like a lot. So.
Purple Crimson Iris
Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board, approx 16" x 16"
SOLD
I had an easy painting session today. The Dark Iris from the other day on one easel, a blank canvas on the one in front of me next to it, and since the canvases were the same size, all I had to do was copy and make changes. Nice to not have to work quite so hard. Painting isn't easy for me, maybe for some, but it's an effort and a struggle most days to get something to come out right. Or right enough. This one was simple pleasure.
Garden Cherub
Oil on Canvas Panel, 12" x 12"
SOLD at $45.00 plus shipping.
Yes, this is quite different for me. A model that didn't move! My daughter and I were at Hobby Lobby the other day, I needed white paint after all the lilies, and these gardent ornaments were on 1/2 price sale. She said she wouldn't mind it in her garden, it's really quite cute, so I figured I'd paint it a couple of times to see what I could do with it. I like the little smirky smile, and I'm thinking a face next. Where would you put a painting like this? A "garden room?"
Creamy Rose
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10"
SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping.
Not quite done with white florals yet. Though this really is more cream than white. It's from a photo I took at Brookside Gardens in Maryland some years back. I think the rose may have been white, but the photo looks like cream, so that's what I painted today. There's not much drama here, but lots of "subtle." Hope you all had a wonderful, meaningful Easter.
