Merry Christmas

6" x 6" original oil on panel

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Merry Christmas to all.  Wishing you joy and happiness today and all thru the year!

Sweet Holiday

6" x 6" original oil on panel

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Another holiday themed painting for you.  I love that lime green and red color combination.  

Holiday Decorating

6" x 6" original oil on panel

$95 unframed - free shipping

"Tis the season!  Enjoy.

The Blues

6" x 6" oil on panel

$95 unframed - free shipping

I continue to paint flowers and this hydrangea seemed soft and dreamy.  A quiet place to be before the excitement of the holidays!

Sunflowers and Pear

8" x 8" original oil on panel

accepted in WPSE Exhibition and Sale - Imagine Gallery, Franklin, TN
April 20 - May 20

A fun small painting.  I have been trying out these lighter backgrounds and like the way the shadows add to the composition of the painting.  Trying not to have too much negative space.

Mom's Garden

6" x 6" original oil on panel

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Another flower painting.  This one from a photo taken by my Mom.  So pretty!  I used transparent oils for the background to give the illusion of foliage and a brick wall.  You see that, right?

Daisy Light

6" x 6" original oil on panel

Daisies are always fun to paint.  It is hard to imagine that November has arrived!  I am off to another workshop tomorrow.  I'm ready to study with Connie Winters.  I've got my paint, panels and brushes all set.  Corse Gallery and Atelier in Jacksonville is a  great place to study!  Maybe I will see you there!

Apple Gift

6" x 6" original oil on panel

$95 unframed - free shipping

Fall is an apple time of year.  This delicious, shiny, red apple is the perfect thing for trick-or-treat, a Thanksgiving feast, or a Christmas gift.  Bake it into a pie with cinnamon and spices, add some vanilla ice cream and YUM  my kind of dessert!

Wheels

8" x 8" oil on panel

workshop painting - NFS

On workshop day 3 we painted from our own photo reference.  Colorful bicycles were in every small hilltown that we visited in Tuscany.  I could not resist taking pictures of them.  My bike at home is lavender, so you know I love that...but I do not have a bell or a basket filled with flowers.  I am going to have to work on that.  Thanks, Dreama, and Corse Gallery and Atelier for a great workshop!

Workshop Fun - Day 2

12" x 12" oil on panel

workshop painting NFS

Day 2 of the workshop and we painted a colorful garden scene.  Full of more flowers than buildings!  Looks like someone has a green thumb.

Workshop Fun - Day 1

12" x 12" oil on panel

workshop painting NFS

I painted this colorful painting in a fun workshop in Jacksonville with teacher, Dreama Tolle Perry.  I love her palette of lively colors!  Very cheery.

Picnic Time

6" x 6" oil on panel

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Here is another painting that I repainted as a demo with my newest student.  It is always interesting to repaint the same project.  Each one turns out completely different!  Happy picnics to all today!

More Complements

6" x 6" oil on panel

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Complements - colors opposite each other on the color wheel...OR...Compliments - an expression of praise.  In this case, complementary colors - purple and yellow.

Plum Crazy

4" x 6" oil on panel

$30 unframed - free shipping

My DPW challenge entry this week.  The complementary challenge.  (Using 2 complementary colors (i.e. orange and blue, yellow and purple, green and red) take one color in both directions on the color wheel (for example, orange, red orange and yellow orange) and do not mix the complement (blue) unless it's to make grays (mixed with oranges). You can use white sparingly.)  Don't you just LOVE purple?

Street View

6" x 6" oil on panel

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This challenge had me stumped for most of the week....What to include from the reference photo?  What to leave out?   How to get the perspective of going down hill and back up again in the distance?  I had fun trying to figure it out!

Old Wheels

6" x 8" oil on panel

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My first try to paint a truck....there is a lot going on with a truck...I painted this one for the Daily Paintworks weekly challenge...

Fresh Picked

6" x 6" oil on panel

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Pears have such a recognizable shape.. You have to love that!  I do!

Rosie

6" x 6" oil on panel

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Painted from a photo reference for DPW challenge this week.  Roses, hard to paint and simplify, but fun to try!

Primaries

6" x 6" original oil on panel

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A DPW challenge to "Paint it Primary" - red - yellow - blue.  Good fun!

Daisy Fresh

Artist Trading Card - 3.5" x 2.5"

NFS - for trade in the Daily Paintworks Challenge

Another trading card....I like little!  

ATC

2.5" x 3.5"

Artist Trading Card

NFS - traded on Daily Paintworks Challenge

Last week the challenge was to paint small.  I painted this one on canvas paper and cut it to size.  I got to trade it with another artist in the challenge.  Nora MacPhail is sending me a watercolor of a cute bear..can't wait to get it in the mail.  You can check out all the challenge entries by clicking on the DPW link...It is always fun to try these challenges!

Apricot Season

6" x 6" original oil on panel

$95 unframed - free shipping

Back to the easel after a fabulous workshop with my friend Elizabeth Robbins.

America's Birthday

6" x 4" oil on panel

$30 unframed - free shipping

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Celebrate America!

Picnic Anyone?

6" x 6" oil on panel

$95 unframed - free shipping

I can bring the cold and juicy watermelon!

Fun Shades

3"x5.5" oil on linen panel

$30 unframed - free shipping

Ready for a holiday picnic?  

Standing Tall

6" x 4" oil on panel

$30 unframed - free shipping

Squinting and looking for shapes and values.....trying to keep it simple without too much detail...Harder than it sounds!

Simplicity

6" x 6" oil on panel

$95 unframed - $5.95 shipping

More fun at the easel!

Stripes?

8" x 8" oil on panel

Painted for DPW "stripe challenge".   One of my favorite vessels to paint, fun stripes and a fluffy flower!

Little Dots

6" x 4' oil on panel

I tried this small painting on a new brand of panel that I was given.  I liked the surface, a lot!  It is  Centurion  deluxe oil primed linen by Creative Mark....Last week the DPW challenge was polka-dots.  It is always fun to participate and to see how other artists paint the challenge.

Left Behind

6" x 6" oil on panel

$95 unframed - $5.95 postage

A certain sign that summer is almost here!  Sun, sand and beach toys...