Chickadees - SOLD

Chickadees Acrylic on Gessoed Illustration Board, 10" x 22" Sold I have decided to put birdies above the powder room door as part of my mural work, and so wanted to paint some patterns today, for positioning and color. There will be a fifth one, but he's flying and wouldn't fit. My daughter saw these little guys and wanted them. I thought she meant in the house, above one of her doors, and she said "No, Mom, Those!" So they are sold. Thanks for looking.

Wrapped Grapefruit

Wrapped grapefruit Acrylic on Canvas board, 11" x 14" Available at $75.00 plus shipping. When we go grocery shopping, I generally look for beautiful fruits to draw, but I actually bought these because they were heavy and juicy looking. (Don't you crave a good grapefruit in the winter?) But one of the EDM (Everyday Matters, a wonderful Yahoo group) drawing challenges was to draw something in celophane or plastic wrap, and when I saw these sitting in their bag on the kitchen counter, I decided to try them. The glazing worked well for these. Thanks for looking.

Red Pears with Pumice Gel - SOLD

Red Pears with Pumice Gel Acrylic on Canvas Board, painted with Pumice Gel, 8" x 10" Available at $60.00 plus shipping. On 24 hour HOLD. I ordered the wrong pumice gel from the art supply store, and decided to try it out anyway. I wanted the fine, but ordered the coarse. I've tried the fine before, and it doesn't really show in the acrylic paint, just adds body. As you can see from the photo, the coarse pumice does show, but it also adds interest. Thanks for looking.

Little Hillside - SOLD

Little Hillside Acrylic on Canvas board, 8" x 10" Sold at $50.00 plus shipping. Continuing with the pastoral landscape practice in acrylics, I did this little guy today. I really like the implied cloud shadow on the moutain, and the colors of the mountains in general. Assorted photos and some imagination. Thanks for looking.

Red Pears in Square - SOLD

Red Pears in Square Acrylic on Canvas Panel, 8" x 8" Sold at $40.00 plus shipping. Acrylic Mediums are my friend. It's just a matter of playing with them, in combination with each other and my new Stay-Wet palette, seeing what can happen. So much of learning a new art medium is experimenting until you figure it out. Half play and half frustration, until you "get it." Thanks for looking.

Valley View - SOLD

Valley View Acrylic on Stretched Canvas, 22" x 28" Sold at $150.00 plus $20 shipping. This is the second sectional painting for my mural work. Hitched together, the two paintings look something like this, which I'm pretty sure will work for the main area I'll be working on, with adjustments for hill lines and color tones. If you are interested in purchasing this one, please be aware that I'll be holding on to it as a model for the mural, which is coming up in a week or so. Thanks for looking.

Julia's Water Lilies - SOLD

Julia's Water Lilies Acrylic on Canvas board, 12" x 16" Sold at $115.00 plus shipping. My young second cousin, Julia, asked her Dad to send me some beautiful photos of water lilies, and I've been wanting to paint them. I also purchased some glazing medium for my acrylics, and the water seemed like a great chance to try out glazing. There are probably 15-20 coats of glaze in some parts of the water, and lots of glazes on the leaves as well. It's a beautiful but painstaking way to paint. But oh, what jewel tones you can get! Thanks for looking.

Winter Weave - SOLD

Winter Weave Watercolor on 140 lb Arches watercolor paper 10" x 14" Sold at $100 plus shipping. A departure into slightly "funky" for me today. I actually started on this one yesterday, but it involved painting two of the same painting and then weaving it together. (The lines of cutting really are straight, I've got a little distortion in the camera.) From a distance it's fractured colors and the impression of winter. The idea came to me on the front porch, where the tree limbs seemed woven with the sky. Thanks for looking.

Vase with Daffodils - SOLD

Vase with Daffodils

Watercolor on Cold Press 300 lb watercolor paper

9.5" x 14" image area

Sold at $40.00 plus shipping

I am working on two unusual techniques right now, and wasn't able to finish either piece for posting today, so this is a loose watercolor done for Kate Johnson's online class in watercolors from last year. I really like how the vase turned out on this one. Sometimes it's nice to have some older pieces on hand. Thanks for looking.

Golden Muffins - SOLD

Golden Muffins Oil on Gessoed Board, 5.75" x 7.75" Sold at $60.00 plus shipping. I never did have a chance to do actual "browse around" Christmas shopping this year (all online buying) so today I went to the nearest Stop and Shop, about 25 minutes from here, and just poked around. Bought another poinsettia for $2.00 and a cyclamen, along with these yummy looking corn muffins. They were just so golden that I had to get them to paint. I love the browns and oranges against the white. (They tasted good too!) Thanks for looking.

Garlic Bulbs - SOLD

Garlic Bulbs Oil onn Canvas board, 8" x 10" Sold at $65.00 plus shipping. This probably seems like an odd subject matter, but I love seeing loose garlic in the grocery store. The interesting colors, the shapes, the dry skins. Anyway, this was a tough painting, I'm not sure why. I think it was one of those days when I just forgot how to paint. They happen now and again. Thanks for looking.

Poinsettia Watercolor - SOLD

Poinsettia Watercolor and Watercolor Pencil on watercolor paper Image size 14" x 18" Sold at $75.00 plus $15.00 shipping. We didn't have a poinsettia for Christmas, what with the little ones, but when I was at the grocery store the other day, there were two leftover, raggedy plants sitting in the back room. I took one to the checkout and it was free, so I wanted to honor it with a painting or two. I'll keep it in the basement with me, and maybe paint it again before it's done. Thanks for looking.

Winter Creek Blues - SOLD

Winter Creek Blues

Oil on Canvas board, 16" x 20"

Sold at $100 plus $15.00 shipping

I've been wanting to do something with snow shadows since we've had so much snow (another 8" last night.) The other day I went for a nice little drive, when the sun was shining and took a bunch of photos. This is a little feeder creek across from Moss Pond. It's been altered a lot, since I could barely see the creek through all the brambles and branches, but it was great working with all these blues and lavender grays. Thanks for looking, and the best to everyone for 2008.

Lemon Meringue Pie - SOLD

Lemon Meringue Pie Watercolor, Watercolor Pencil and Gouache on Watercolor Paper 8" x 8" Sold at $45.00 plus shipping. As a thank you and a small tribute to our Daily Painters Gallery administrator (and creator) Micah, some of the members are posting cakes, pies, and pastries for his birthday tomorrow. I hope there are bunches on the gallery tmorrow, that would be fun. Happy Birthday, Micah! This is an older piece, mixed media, but small and sweet. Thanks for looking.

Orange Fan - SOLD

Orange Fan Oil on Canvas Panel, 8" x 8" Sold at $50.00 plus shipping. This was a delight to do today, just because it was oils. Oil blends like you want it to, it moves as you want it to, it can be as subtle as you want it to, or as bold. It felt like a homecoming. Thanks for looking.

Foggy Pond

Foggy Pond Oil on Canvas board, 8" x 16" Available at $50.00 plus shipping. The third of this series. It felt so good to pull out the oil paints again, like a comfortable and familiar place to be. Ahhhh. Thanks for looking.

Creek Colors

Creek Colors Acrylic on Canvas board, 10" x 12" Available at $50.00 plus shipping. So far with the acrylics, I've been trying to make them behave like oils, adding mediums to beef them up and slow them down (drying time.) Today I decided to just go with the flow, and paint as the paints wanted to act. There is almost no blending in this one, just popping colors in where they needed to go, in the approximate shapes in the scene. Putting them overtop of one another. I like the way the foliage turned out, but it does lend itself well to this kind of painting. I blended a little in the water, but that's about it. What do you think of the results? Thanks for looking.

Shade Tree for the Cows - SOLD

Shade Tree for the Cows
Acrylic on Canvas panel, 12" x 12"
SOLD at $40.00 plus shipping.

The perfect pastoral subject, and I like painting them too. Cows are so restful. And I know where I can find some to photograph. More cows? Could well be. Thanks for looking.

Doray House Winter - Sold

Doray House Winter Acrylic on Canvas board, 12" x 16" SOLD This one was a redo of the Winter Neighborhood from a few days back. The neighbor's liked it, since it was of their house, and asked for a repeat. This one is for Sharon, Happy Birthday! Thanks for looking.

Pine Needle Path - SOLD

Pine Needle Path Acrylic on Canvas board, 12" x 16" Sold at $50.00 plus shipping. I liked the subtle play of colors on the path when I took this photo, the bright sienna color of the pine needles, against the darkness of the trees. Still playing with the acrylics. Thanks for looking.