Clinging Leaves Two - SOLD

Clinging Leaves Two Oil on Stretched Cnavas, 11" x 14" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. A second version, equally pleasant to paint. Love these colors.

Mini Yellow Onion - SOLD

Yellow Onion, Mini Oil on Ampersand Panel, 5" x 5" SOLD at $20.00, includes mailing This is the last of my red gessoed little mini panels. I've enjoyed doing these, and may decide to buy some more. They are happy little pieces.

Clinging Winter Leaves - SOLD

Clinging Winter Leaves Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14" SOLD at $60.00 plus shipping. Although I worked from an old photo from Massachusetts, there are a few of these golden guys hanging on to the trees outside my Maryland apartment. I love it when the sun catches them, and become so grateful for their touches of color against all the subtle winter shades.

Blues and Greens, Revised

Blues and Greens, Revised Oil on Stretched Linen Canvas, 10" x 10" Available at $50.00 plus shipping. Ahhh, much better. Straightened out the mug, made the shadow cleaner, made the bowl bluer, you know.

Thinking Pink - SOLD

Thinking Pink Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $75.00 pus shipping. It's cold out, winter is wearing a little thin...time to think flowers, spring, sunshine, green growing things and pink!

Rock Creek Paintings

Panoramic Creek Scene Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 24" Revised on March 1, 2011. Large Rock Creek Scene Oil on Stretched Canvas, 20" x 20" SOLD. Since I was working on this creek scene today, by request (the larger version), I decided to go ahead and do a second one to be available. I kind of like seeing the different feel in the two of them.

Landscape Practice - NA

Landscape Practice Oil on Linen Canvas, 10" x 10" Revised, see Feb. 14, 2011. Switching gears to landscape, and doing a little practice beforehand. I've got a couple of larger landscapes to do for commissions. For those of you who are keen football fans, enjoy today's SuperBowl.

Fruit Singles - SOLD

Single Green Apple Oil on Ampersand Panel, 5" x 5" SOLD at $20.00, inlcudes shipping. Single Yellow Pear Oil on Ampersand Panel, 5" x 5" SOLD at $20.00, includes shipping. Another couple of singles, to use up these tiny panels. What a nice time I had today, reconnecting, laughing, listening with some old high school girlfriends. We so need our "buds," don't we?

Blues and Greens - NA

Blues and Green Oil on Linen Canvas, 10" x 10" NA, Revised on February 9, 2011. I'm pretty happy with this one, shapes and colors playing well together.

Delicate Magnolia - SOLD

Delicate Magnolia Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 12" x 12" x 1.25" SOLD at $80.00 plus shipping. This one is gallery wrapped and will need no frame. I just felt like something soft and delicate today.

Apple and Chintz - SOLD

Apple and Chintz Oil on Stretched Linen Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD at $45.00 plus shipping. I was excited about this one, until I realized that I'd kind of lost the cups in all the fun chintz fabric. I've had trouble with these cups before, they are such an odd color of green gray. No reason I shouldn't be able to paint them, though. Hmmm. Another try, I guess.

Single Green Pear - SOLD

Single Green Pear Oil on Ampersand Panel, 5" x 5" SOLD at $20.00, includes shipping. Last time I was at Plaza Art I picked up some little Ampersand boards on sale. But they are tiny, only 5" x 5", so I'll probably just use them for singles. They have red tinted clear Gesso (red acrylic paint) on them, so there could be tinges of red shining through.

A Little Less Boring - SOLD

A Little Less Boring Oil on Stretched Linen Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. My still life work, has been admittedly, traditional, but a little boring. Stripes help, certainly, and those are interesting. So I am going to try to make them a little less boring, for you and for me. More unusual compositions, different lighting, that sort of thing. Isn't this better?

Palette Knife Still Life

Palette Knife Still Life Oil on Stretched Linen Canvas, 10" x 10" Available at $45.00 plus shipping. A textured still life to finish up January. Maybe a landscape tomorrow. I am missing trees.

White and Lemons - NA

White and Lemons
Oil on Stretched Linen, 10" x 10"
Not Available, Painted Over.

A very simple still life today. It actually turned out more "stark" than I thought it would, with all the soft orange of the cloth. The white of the dishes looks very white, doesn't it?

Still Life with Lemons and Grapes - SOLD

Still Life with Lemons and Grapes Oil on Stretched Linen Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. Another winter still life, but this time with heat and light, ahhhh (our power is back on.) And on linen, always a treat to work on.

Snowstorm Apples - SOLD

Snowstorm Apples Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 16" SOLD at $45.00 plus shipping. I am still trying to use more "lush" paint in my work. This one went through some changes, as I started it with the light on the right, and then we lost power in the DC area, due to a very heavy snow that knocked trees and power lines down all over. I had to change the light to whatever natural light was coming in my sliding glass door/window from the left. So everthing shifted and became less dramatic. I painted it with about five layers on as the apartment got colder. BUT I painted! Hence, the Snowstorm Apples. (The photo shows a very washed out left side, taken with natural light. The painting isn't that washed out.)

Mug and Apple - SOLD

Mug and Apple Oil on Canvas Panel, 6" x 8" SOLD at $20.oo, includes mailing Just trying to loosen up, and paint more directly. Problem is in remembering to "draw tight, paint loose." If you've got it in your head be loose, it's tricky out of the gate to remind yourself to draw carefully beforehand. This one should have been lower in the format.

Palette Knife Pears

Palette Knife Pears Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" Available at $65.00 plus shipping. This is the same still life as yesterdays, but done with a palette knife, rather than with a brush. And no stripes. Just a completely different look, and really bright and fun.

Pears and Bottle - SOLD

Pears and Bottle Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. I like the soft, analogous colors here, and how they all play so well together. It really is quite nice in person.