Pink Pansies

Teddy Bear Painting on Pillow

This is a piece of muslin that I painted and turned into a pillow.

Smeared Lipstick

3 x 5 in oil painting on canvas board

Sunflowers original painting

16 x 20 in gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Original Pear Painting

16 x 20 stretched canvas
gallery wrapped
no frame needed

Cake Painting

this one is a huge 4 ft x 2 ft. very festive and fun.

Children's Personalized Original Paintings

it's been a while

and it's been an unusual couple of months, lost a dearly loved one, and was part of the starting up process of our local artist co-op retail store in historic Mass. which is why i have not posted, but today i begin again.

i'll post some of the things i've been working on.

Lasting Beauty

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. - Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Mother Teresa

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
 ~ Mother Teresa

Vibrations

4 x 4 oil on unstretched canvas

oil 6 x 6 x 1.5 in

Newport, Rhode Island

a couple of shots from the mansions along the ocean.

bleeding heart wip oil

pink lips

4 x 4 x 1.5 in.

oil painting

lion finished with oil glazes

i told you it was hard for me to leave a painting like this alone, but this was really the last one.

this is unstretched canvas 16 x 16 in.

Good Morning

original abstract painting Lobster Traps

this painting is artist grade acrylics on unstretched canvas, and my interpretation of the lobster traps i saw on my way to Plymouth.

eleven

Moon Dance

Thanks for your music Van Morrison ...... painted this while listening.

March came in like a lion in New England

Added some color glazes to bring the lion out more, and calling it done. (not something i can easily do).

after posting i see that the thalo green blue shade is showing too prominently in the photo, i'll have to try to fix that with gimp.

Lion con't

adding color, but not going crazy. waiting for the paint and glaze to cure before finishing.

WIP lion

started out with a charcoal sketch, which of course does not stay down very long, and i can't bear the smell of retouch varnish, but it gives me a good visual of placements before putting down the paint.

monochromatic at this point, not sure if i'll glaze color over when completed or not.


16 in x 16 in canvas
(flat, not stretched)

Fading

4 x 4 oil on canvas paper

the image looks like it was taken on an angle, but this was taken straight forward, it only appears that way because one side is clearly contrasted and the other is fading out.

12 x 36

Love Struck

gallery stretched canvas. 1.5 in. deep 4 in x 4 in square. painted with multiple layers of artist grade acrylics.

My Heart is Yours

I've finally returned yesterday from my New Jersey trip and can post some of the paintings I've been doing for a local showing. They are all small chunky stretched canvas. 4 in x 4 in x 1.5 in.

Many layers of artist grade acrylic applied very thickly with a palette knife.

Lips, an oil painting

this may be hard to believe, but i started out sketching Bruce Springsteen's lips from an old Rolling Stone cover, i love that underbite. male lips done in charcoal on paper turned into pink in oil on canvas. i really never know how things are going to turn out. it works well for my personality.

the last pic shows the small chunky canvas.....a 4 in square gallery wrapped canvas with 1.5 in depth.

artist grade oil paints, no mediums for faster drying so it will be a bit before i can glaze.

The Rooster by Marc Chagall

"Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing." ~ Marc Chagall

The Color of Love by Chagall

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Marc Chagall


painting by Chagall

The Lovers

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Marc Chagall

The painting is by Marc Chagall
I thought it was a good choice for yesterdays quote as well.

(I've been painting hearts, but cannot find the wire that takes the photos from the camera to the computer. Unfortunately, I'm quite unorganized.)

Live under the Sun, Love under the Moon

Happy New Year

My precious company from the past ten days has gone now, and it's time to turn the guest bed back into a horizontal surface for my oversize painting papers, foam boards, supports etc. It's time to enjoy the Christmas lights for the last time, and replace the cookie cutters with the juicer. The distractions of the beautiful Christmas season are over and I'm starting to recognize the familiar signs of that slippery slope of the January slump. If I don't fight it, I'll end up spending the entire month wondering when I'm going to start painting again, and when I'm going back to the gym.

Hopefully.............. I'll be posting a painting tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. I'm wondering if posting this to my blog will do for me what it did two years ago when I started it......accountability and establishing a routine. Self discipline is not one of my strong points.

I wish you the most wonderful new year full of love, good health, peace and God's blessings.

Narnia

i feel like i'm in Narnia.
it's been snowing for three days non stop.

My True Love Gave to Me

Five Golden Rings

Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful

But The Fire is so Delightful

Angels in Watercolor

my favorite christmas carol

I HEARD THE BELLS ON CHRISTMAS DAY

if you like getting goose bumps, go here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7670CXvPX0&feature=channel

Calla Lily original oil painting

hurricane with no rain......

that's what the weather was like while at the shore, so once i got there i only went out a few times and there was NO picture taking. i could hardly see through all the flying hair. it was crazy.

here's the story with this 5 ft. painting......... last summer i painted this for someone who needed something 'large' . i very much enjoy painting large, but found out the person was going to cut it down ! i suppose i am way too attached to my paintings, because i was not going to hand it over and let it be altered in any way. money is never a motivator for me, and definitely not with my art. so i took it back and took it to the shore with me to give to my son for his dorm room. that didn't go over very well, so ..... long story short i went to visit someone and there was my painting, looking very beautiful on their wall, and aside from what was lost when it was stretched.....it was as it was supposed to be.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. -Poe

Jersey Shore

On my way back to New Jersey for a few days.......won't be painting, but bringing my camera, hopefully will post some winter ocean, bay, river, marina shots.

Here's a quick sketch done in charcoal / conte. Angle of pic is poor, and I liked it better just in black and white charcoal before I added the color w. conte .

Plymouth Rock...........very cool

LOVED that trip. i LOVE places chocked full with history, and you don't get better than this in America. It was actually in Dec when they arrived, I can't imagine how they stayed warm. brrr it was cold there today, even my wool beret didn't keep out the cold, but flat Stanley was an excellent 'model'.

As far as inspiration for a painting, it's so incredibly funny how (for me at least) inspiration always seems to come from the strangest places, rarely where you would expect.........like this trip, as fantastic as Plymouth was, there was nothing that inspired me to do a painting. Maybe on some level I knew it would not happen because on the way I saw my inspiration on the highway. A huge flatbed truck filled with colorful lobster traps........yellow, green, and orange. I felt that 'hit' of desire to record what I was seeing in paint with whatever interpretation would come at the time. and that was that.

Anyway here's some pics

DRACULA

made those changes.

(the first dracula i drew looked more like eddie munster.... by elongating the face it made all the difference from looking like a child.

Plymouth Rock

I'm off to take flat Stanley to Plymouth Rock. hope there's a good painting somewhere in that.

DRACULA

another in my romantic movie quote series

have to change a couple of things , like the quote script, glue and spray

after all i read about how this is one of the favorite quotes of all time, and how he looked into her eyes when he said it, i'll have to watch the movie.

dracula is done in charcoal as well as the bats, the bats i may paint.

working on this oil painting

16 x 20 stretched canvas
i did leave the challenging part for last, the skin tones and facial features of adult and child.

True Love

True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist,
Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Anonymous

on earth PEACE angel quote collage WIP

began a new collage yesterday with watercolor, ink, rhinestones, ancient map print, so far.

Gray

Free Indeed

Autumn Confetti II palette knife painting

16 x 20 stretched canvas gallery wrapped acrylic.

$125.00

I painted this the day after the first one I posted in Oct, but am only posting it today, I was unsure if I wanted to sell it. The first position is the one I painted it in...... vertically, or ''portrait'' . My inspiration.... a bit in the distance..... two tall trees next to each other, in these colors. (remember this was October in New England) . Anyway, this is the TRUTH........... it was the same day I painted the other confetti (the leaves looked like colored confetti slowly falling) and the exact same thing happened when I turned the canvas to paint the sides, I saw a heart.


I took it as a sign.

Angel Gate

I didn't paint today, but here's an awesome house I walked past, and was very glad I had a camera with me.

From a nearby historic coastal town.

Knife painted roses

zoom in for detail

Knife painted abstracted floral

palette knife painting on gallery stretched canvas

rose heads

18 x 24 watercolor
2 sisters who shop till they drop and (at the time i painted this) wore their hair in up twists, which when i painted it, went right into rose heads.
they liked it.

Abstract 3 ft x 4 ft gallery wrapped stretched canvas

$1,200.00

from City of Angels

mixed media collage


the charcoal image is seth , still an angel, just before he jumps from the high bldg so he can become human and be with the one he fell in love with

Nov 9

haven't posted because i've been DISTRACTED.

trying to reel myself back in, remembering why i started this blog almost 2 yrs ago.

uh oh. my darling son just came home and i must go feed him. garlic shrimp and fettuccine Alfredo.
I LOVE MY KIDS and i'm a great cook.

i'm back.

i try to post each day for two reasons..........
1. my tags will come up in searches on closer pages the more often i update my blog.

2. the reason i began this blog and trying to post each day was because of the daily painters movement. i knew that by belonging to this group of painters i would develop a discipline that i wanted and needed. it's been so beneficial on so many levels......... as was the testimony of the painters who encouraged me to begin this in the first place.

it would be good if i could encourage another artist reading this now.

i haven't painted the past couple of days because of a rather large delivery and i had to tie up lots of lose ends first and i can now continue on with my movie quote collages. next is ''City of Angels'', the quote from the character Seth (Nicholas Cage) to Maggie (Meg Ryan) : ''when they ask me what i liked best, i'll say it was you.''

ok for tonight.

4 The Honey Bees

oil paint applied with palette knife on canvas paper, black beveled mat 5 x 7

had to photograph on angle, paint is not completely dry and causes glare.

Poppy Collage Print

Original not available

print 8 x 11 $25.00

i can cut a beveled mat for you in the size you need to fit your frame for an additional $10.00

Autumn Confetti palette knife painting

16 x 20 acrylic on stretched gallery wrapped canvas.

Here's what happened with this painting........... I did it a couple of days ago, looking out my back windows for inspiration, there is plenty in Oct in Massachusetts. The leaves were falling like a slow dance of color. When I felt like it was finished, I turned it around to paint the sides, and I saw a heart. It was a great and happy surprise. I was remembering a day that I was driving along a highway and saw a formation in the clouds of a heart with an arrow going through it. I am not exaggerating. A HEART !!!! WITH AN ARROW GOING THRU IT . IN THE SKY. IN THE CLOUDS. do you see it in this painting when it's turned upside down? which is now right side up.
smile.

$125.00

WIP and 1st in movie quote series this one about KISSES XOXO

spoken by Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind

charcoal, watercolor, acrylic

love the quote, not sure of the way i'll do the printing or the background color yet.

11 x 14 140 lb wc paper

preparing some paintings that can transfer well as prints for some upcoming shows.

CLICK ON PIC to read quote.

even though i do not post the comments publicly on my blog, i appreciate them and thank you. so if you know of any quotes that you want to share, please do.

Tripod... a tool worth using for better pics

I'm constantly trying to improve my camera skills so I can post better pics to the websites I sell on. Setting up an area with the tripod, and using NO flash have made a huge difference. Right up there with the day I learned to 'crop' out the background.

I have a new Sony digital camera, which takes amazing close ups but I haven't taken the time to study the user booklet. I'm just so comfortable with my old Nikon. Here's a shot of a Rose of Sharon with the 'micro'.

Scroll down to the Degas ballerina ATC;s and see the diff with the zoom with and without the tripod. If you need to take good pics for posting, you need to do it with a tripod.

Missing........

The river in Island Heights, New Jersey.

Autumn Winds palette knife painting

They were really kicking up last night........and as well as autumn, I also love the wind.

series of 5 x 7 original watercolor and ink studies

click on the photo for a great zoom in shot

Tito cleaning the yard after a BBQ

our little chihuahua trying to bring in the booty from his trash picking.

how cute is he !!!

Abstract Rose Garden

Palette Knife oil painting 6 x 9 in on canvas paper, mounted to backing board and matted to 9 x 12 in. ready for standard size open frame. oil paints never use glass.

$75.00

Midnight

Four 6'' square stretched canvas with gallery wrapped canvas sides 3/4 in.

Each canvas is a 6 '' sq.

arrange them in any configuration horizontally, vertically or squared.

signed on back

The canvas is primarily black, two of them have barely visible tones of magenta, and two purple.

Thank You Mary- have some of my cranberry biscotti

Yes I have heard of propay, but their fee is for one year period and since I only have 2 shows left for the year, I was looking for other options that fit my needs. I did hear of a plan that charges only for the months you use it. Again, thanks for the comment.

What I learned from Sunday

I learned that if I want to sell off line, I need to have a system for accepting credit cards. I thought with the laptop customers could pay with their card through paypal online. In the sun, there was nothing really visable on the screen, and the outdoor internet kept going in and out, so that is apparently not an option for outdoor shows.

hmm. looking into what services are available today.

Boston Open Market

Looks like tomorrow will be a beautiful day for the market in Boston. Stop by and say hello.

I'll bring this huge 3 ft x 4ft painting on wood panel.

Earth Abstract

another one that is different for me, maybe if I do enough of them, they will no longer be the 'different ones'....... though I doubt I'll ever stop wanting to paint in a representational form.

3 stretched canvas gallery wrapped and painted on sides as on front.

they are signed on the back so that they may be hung in any direction.

YIN YANG ish PUMPKIN in oil paint

well, kind of. you be the judge

Red Earth

Two stretched canvas, gallery wrapped with the image painted around sides.

total size : 16'' x 40'' (two 20 x 16)

or

total size: 20 x 32 depending of if you hang them vertically or horizontally

This was an exercise for me in being able to paint my vision and LEAVE IT. It wasn't easy, I kept wanting to turn the vertical lines into the things people were seeing , such as telephone poles after a storm, or pilings in water at a marina. But I want to leave it for the viewer to see what they will, and leave it named after the paint hue. This was a first for me as far as the minimalist style, not sure if I like it, or not. In my own taste and life I'm moving from fussy, shabby chic, romantic, too much is never enough, .........to IKEA.

I traded my big comfy couch with the ruffled skirt and much fluffy pillows for a minimalist leather with steel legs. I wish Ikea was closer to me, I would want to work there. The energy is undeniable every time I'm there......good good good. I love IKEA.

click the zoom in to see the close ups

$95.00

Metallic Abstract 16 x 20 mixed media

Another mixed media, acrylic paint, metallic paint, paper, acrylic medium.

Depending on the direction you hang it, you either see alot of yellow or you don't. This is due to the texture of the paper.

You can see a bit of the side here, it is identical all the way around.

tiny calla lily in oil 2.5 x 3.5

Abstract ACEO

oil paint on mat board

Chocolate Icing Cupcake

Here's the choc cupcake you asked for. : P

Just Blue

Painted this large canvas for a show last Sun in Boston, but we were rained out.

$175.00

after Degas

oil on board, can't get the pic right though


this is oct 28 and i'm posting pics now taken with same camera, but using a tripod.

after Degas

oil on board

after Degas

oil on board

cupcake oil painting aceo

,painting on hardboard

you can purchase this image on a number of different items at my cafe press store:

http://www.cafepress.com/LittleCupcake

everything from t shirts to baby items, mugs and paper products

Cupcake Queen

4 x 4 in oil painting on canvas paper

rhinestones glued on with archival medium

see this painting on a number of products in my cafe press store:

http://www.cafepress.com/CupcakeQueen

Cupcake Fairy

This is my version of a vintage rose flower fairy illustration.
Mine is a cupcake, the rose is icing.

Cupcake Princess, and Angel Food cupcakes

These pics are not good, but just posting until I do better ones.

They are painted in acrylic on watercolor paper, 140 lb cold press
the crowns have rhinestones glued to the tips, you can see better if you click on the photo.

the wings have alot of texture

City Abstract

16 x 20 stretched cotton canvas

paint applied with a palette knife

gold,bronze,copper metallic paint

pink beach umbrella

one of my favorite things, pink beach umbrellas. I had to embellish this with another of my favorite things, pink ribbons flying in the breeze.

Metallic Pear 5 x 7 hand painted greeting card

if you click on the pic you will see the metallic paint better, as well as the full moon card just below this post.

$10.00

Greeting cards that are original paintings will come with a white beveled mat, so the art may be framed in a standard 5 x 7 frame.

Signed and dated on the back.

more greeting cards

all are 5 x 7 and have envelopes with a little matching illustration

Hand Painted greeting cards 5 x 7

hand painted greeting cards 5 x 7

All cards are initialed on front, and signed on back ''hand painted art card'' and a title if the painting has one.

All envelopes have a small illustration on the front and or back .

ACEO tulips in pen and ink

Some of my ACEO's are available as prints or originals

Rose Buds in oil ATC

Artist Trading Card

original oil painting on canvas paper.

ACEO rose oil on canvas paper

Wicked Good

(because I live in New England)

aceo pen and ink, part of my ACEO whimsical cupcake series.

http://www.cafepress.com/WickedCupcakes

see this design on many functional items for the home, or wearable art.

ACEO ink illustration

watercolor paper and ink

white rooster

14 x 18 '' acrylic on canvas board.

dark blue background with detailed head and impressionistic body.

click on the pic for close ups of the knife painted feathers.

the second more blue pic is the actual color.

$60.00

Impressionistic Calla Lily knife painting

This is cotton stretched canvas, 16 x 20 in. gallery wrapped, and painted around the sides, ready for hanging.

$150.00

Thickly painted with a palette knife using only 3 colors plus white. Yellow Oxide, French Ultramarine Blue, Magenta. The mixing of the paint on the canvas with a knife causes the color mixing to very visable rather than blended. You can see from the close ups if you click on the photo what I mean. Though the colors are bold, when mixed they become subtle but striking.

Metallic Abstract

16 x 20 cotton stretched canvas.


I've used paper and acrylic matte medium along with metallic bronze and copper to create this abstract.

Artist grade acrylic blues and yellows, which when mixed together on the canvas with a palette knife create many different hues and interesting texture and blendings.

Click on the pics to see the detail and texture.

I loved doing this collage.

Plight of the Honey Bees

Abstract in Oil Paint on canvas paper. 6 x 9 in a beveled mat measuring 9 x 12. ready to drop into a standard open frame. (no glass for oil paints)

Abstract Rose Garden

Knife painted in oil.Very thickly painted on canvas paper, matted in a beveled white mat. 9 x 12 ''
actual painting, 6 x 9

Artist Trading Cards collectible Cupcake Art

Lean on Me
Retro Cupcake
Cherry
Tipsey
Cupcake Stand
Royal Icing
Over the Moon
Cupcake Topiary
Cupcake Pedistal

artist trading card CUPCAKE on Pedistal oil onw.c. paper

The very popular size of ATC's (artist trading cards) 2.5 x 3.5 ''
This one is oil on 140 # watercolor paper, with a small white border.

ACEOs are miniature pieces of art that measure 2-1/2" x 3-1/2". If a small piece of art has different measurements than this, it does not qualify as an ACEO.

The acronym "ACEO" stands for Art Cards, Editions and Originals. They can be original art, print editions or photographs.

ACEO history

ACEOs stemmed off of Artist Trading Cards (ATCs), an idea developed by the artist M.Vänçi Stirnemann. He based the size of ATCs on sports trading cards. ATCs can only be traded or given away. Their purpose is to share art and to encourage creative exchange between artists.

Dream Bakery

I finally glazed and added contrast to the bakery window painting, which was too pastel in my opinion. It turned out looking a bit 'dreamy' ? to me, so that is the new painting title.
12 x 36 acrylic stretched canvas.

16 x 20 in stretched canvas
acrylic

The Arrow of Love

The arrow of Love has pierced my heart.
I will be true, right from the start.
I'll love with all, and not in part,
The arrow of Love, has pierced my heart.
(unknown)

9 x 12'' watercolor on paper in beveled white mat

Three Full Moons

Three full moons has been the subject of a few of my dreams.

16 x 20 stretched canvas painted in acrylic with a knife and brush.

vibrant limited pallet.

signed on the back so it may be hung in any direction.

ps.
after seeing the posted pics of the painting, it seems i need to take some better photos as the colors don't look right , maybe it's just my monitor.

Uncommitted Heart

16 x 20 in stretched canvas
original knife painting in acrylic
limited palette of magenta,and ultramarine. mixing just these two colors with each other, and then either white or black has given this painting an endless variety of hues.
This painting is sold, as is the following one titled ''Love is Eternal'' but there will be more.

City Moon

16 x 20 '' original acrylic painting on stretched canvas

This is not meant to be any particular city, just an abstracted cityscape with one of my favorite things...........THE FULL MOON . How blessed I am to have a skylight to paint under, and in the evening.........I see the moon.

The colors in this painting are much more low key than I usually use, but I wanted it to be a bit moody and peaceful.

One Dozen Roses

12 x 36 in. stretched canvas, original acrylic painting.

The inspiration for this painting was a doz of light brown eggs. I'll probably still paint those, but I saw rose heads in those egg containers. I'm working towards a more abstract style at this time, more contemporary and looser. The paint is quite thick, and since it's acrylic it's already dry, unlike the oils I did many weeks ago, which are still shiny.

Abstract Evening Iris Garden

4 x 6 oil painting on 140# paper of an iris garden in the evening

i have a new laptop and am still learning how this one works with color etc, so far, not so good.
this painting is very deep purple and white with heavy texture, even though it looks blue here.
so i'll call this a test .

this is now october and i'm using a tripod and the photo adjusting tools and it looks much better. in fact i deleted the original.

also added a black mat and foam core backing board. the 4 x 6 image is now ready to drop into a 5 x 7 frame, and the oil paint is just about dry.

the thickly applied paint is showing up much better now too.

Scales of Justice

This is for my son Damian, who is in lawschool with bare dorm walls.

watercolor 18 x 24

Butterfly Abstract

24 x 36 acrylic knife painting on canvas board

watercolor

I'M BACK. for real this time. i hope.

Today is the fourth of July.

I now have a new laptop, and have realized WHY I was not yet painting in this new (not) house. The room I set aside as a studio room did not turn out to be as well lit as I thought it was. There is another room in the house which is though, and I had to do A LOT of rearranging in order to make it my studio. So, even though I haven't posted I have been painting, and it's been good.

The other problem was that the computer was in a part of the house that I DON'T GO TO. So that, of course, made posting impossible. Probably the biggest problem though, was that the move from New Jersey was an incredibly emotionally draining one. I was depressed, and missing so many things about my old house, and the Jersey shore. While I still miss those things, I'm realizing that this is just another time of growing and stretching and letting go of things that, in the long run, just don't matter. What does matter is LOVE. Relationships, and mostly...growing closer to God every day. So, even though this has been hard, I know that difficulty and struggle is what helps us (like the butterfly) change and emerge.

Speaking of butterflies, I've just painted a canvas panel in a style which I do like, but rarely paint, kind of outsider and abstract. It changed from what I originally intended it to be into something darkish because I was painting during a thunderstorm, just under a skylight. It was intense and beautiful. (I love storms). The butterfly seemed to be bowing ''to The Lord of the storm''. Anyway, I ended up turning the painting and changing it completely. I'm not happy that I did that, but I did.

As I was just looking over my old posts, I realize that most of what is posted is no longer available, so please don't push any ''buy it now'' buttons without emailing me first. I'll get to removing those paypal buttons, ............ soon.

WARM LOVE.

jan 8

still here. just not painting yet. sigh.

CAN'T BELIEVE

another month has gone by and i've hardly unpacked. what a slow process.

sigh.

at least when i do start painting again, it will be in a room with excellent lighting.

ok then.........just a bit of an update.

PURPOSING !!!!!!!!

IT'S ALMOST ONE MONTH........... feels like so long since i've painted anything. there's so much work and wall painting to do between the new house and the one i'm trying to sell.

finally resolved to take it off the market until things normalize and rent it out. that actually involved more work than even selling it. almost done, looking forward to getting my studio set up and painting every day once again.

Sunrise Sunset

Here is another acrylic 12'' x 36''. It is available for sale, at $150.00, but I will not be able to ship it until after Oct. 8th. I've been in the grueling process of moving out of state and my house is still on the dead stopped real estate market. Most of that time I've not been able to paint in oils because of the smell.......or so I was told by my realtor. So now that I'm finally getting settled in I can get out the oils again. AND.......I finally have my own studio room.

The Bakery Window

12'' x 36'' acrylic on stretched canvas. Much of the painting on the cakes was done with a knife, so there is a lot of texture. Click on the 4th pic down you can see it somewhat.

I had recently purchased ten canvases in this size. This may be no. 5

The others, abstract carrots, pear line up, wild roosters, ok, it's no. 4

It's been fun thinking up paintings to fit this size canvas, on this somber day of 9/11 I found myself wanting to paint something HAPPY.


The full price of this painting will go directly to orphans in third world countries, where this amount of money can go very very far towards their health care.
THANK YOU.

This painting has been sold, but I can paint something similar for you.

Pear line up

12 x 36 '' stretched canvas
original painting in acrylic

bold colors and form
unfortunately, the layers of glazing and pigment are not showing up in the photo.
this is another 'foodscape' done on my batch of 12 x 36 canvases.

watercolor abstract floral

The actual painting size is 4.5'' x 8.5''

If you want to purchase this painting, and would like to have the double mat ( 9 x 12 ) that it is photographed with I'll include that.

This painting was an experiment, and since I liked the way it came out, I'm offering it for sale at $25.00.

First I wet the watercolor paper, then put down some very wet color which I spread around randomly with a small water spritzer. The way that green line formed over the yellow area, I immediately saw a flower begin to appear, then I carved out the petals with a damp clean brush, added some darks for definition, and tried to leave it alone.


price: $25.00 plus actual shipping

email me for a paypal invoice at Artists4Orphans@comcast.net

100 % goes directly to orphans in Africa this October. That amount is not much at all here, but in Africa..........it can literally save a life.

Kind Regards

Sunflowers in Pastel

double matted to size 16'' x 20''
pastel on paper, 8'' x 10''
for sale $150.00 plus actual shipping
click on the pic for a zoom in

Roses in Oil

18 x 24 Pink Calla Lily

watercolor on 140 lb paper

Five Colorful Roosters 12'' x 36''

I finally took a few min. and figured out how to crop my photos so you don't need to see my deck and pool. I also realized today that if I turn off the flash, and take the photos outdoors, I no longer have GLARE issues. YAY !

scroll down to purchase this painting with the 'buy now' button to paypal.
100 % of the purchase price of this painting will go to charity for orphans.

abstract carrots 12 x 36 acrylic canvas

Five Colorful Roosters 12'' x 36''

I recently bought 10 canvases in this size, this is the first. I should stop trying to plan out a painting before I paint it, as it rarely turns out anything like the plan. This started out with a red background, the roosters were all to be white. I have no idea how or why this turned out this way, but I'm glad it did. Maybe tomorrow I'll try it again...... all white roosters. We'll see.
acrylic on 12 x 36 in. stretched canvas, sides painted black. $250.00 through paypal, includes shipping and insurance.

Bottom Heavy ....Pears, Original Painting

16 x 20 acrylic on stretched canvas
Pears are a favorite subject for most artists, myself included. I also enjoy painting things in a representational, but stylized way.

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Cherry Cake Cover

I love to paint on any surface. This was a vintage tin cake cover, primed then painted in acrylics and sealed.

Wild Rooster

6'' x 9'' acrylic on hardboard
back and sides are painted black for easel display, or drop into standard open frame

one of my favorite quotes is from Degas:
"A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people."

I have found that it is quite a bit more discipline to be free and loose, than to include all the details and lines. It feels something like when you don't dot an i , but it's a discipline I'm working towards.

3 little ships

beginning a study for a large painting for a new baby's room.

this is the first drawing and the color sample for approval by client.

Pumpkins

acrylic on gessoed paper, a 9 " x 12 " study for a 4' x 6' painting. i'm trying to get the stems and vines to come together to form a heart. easy on the small one, much more challenging on the large one.

http://www.cafepress.com/LittlePumpkin

pears acrylic 6 x 9 hardboard knife painting

knife painting red pears

6 x 9 acrylic on 1/4 '' thick masonite
painted black back and sides

pictured here on easel, not included.

knife painted calla lily

6 x 9 acrylic on masonite

2 doz. roses

16" x 20"
stretched canvas
acrylic

poppy abstract 4' x 3' HUGE

stretched canvas
acrylic

rose squared

10 x 10 gallery wrapped stretched canvas

original acrylic painting

Sunflowers in Oil

primed hardboard 5 x 7
painted back and sides for easel display, or drop into standard size open frame.

impressionistic landscape/waterscape knife/brush

6 x 9 acrylic on primed hardboard. sides and back painted.

strawberries in oil on board

5 x 7 primed hardboard, painted with black paint on back and sides ready for display easel, or to drop in a standard size open frame.

knife painted pears

THANKS JAY !!!!!

the fragrance is intoxicating, and i can't wait to paint them.
xoxo

pink tulips, finished

Pink tulips

I was looking out the window yesterday while my cousin and I were chatting, and through the pretty little panes was the most beautiful color combinations of pink (from the cherry blossom trees in full bloom) and sky blue with a touch of green from the leaves. As I was about to paint a new tulip canvas I knew what my colors would be, and anyway, I'm tired of the colors I've been using.

This is the beginning of the painting, I'll post the finished one soon.........I'm just wondering what color I"ll do the vase.

Rooster 36 x 30 stretched canvas

When I put my house on the market, I had to take down the huge pumpkin painting so people wouldn't think it was an old autumn decoration that I never took down, so I had to replace it with something else colorful to fill a kitchen wall.

Pear in oil on hardboard 6 x 9

red tulips

orange tulips

16 x 20 stretched canvas
acrylic

tulips

garden abstract

I have been painting, but not posting....... mostly due to the photos not turning out well. I hate to post a photo of a painting with huge glare spots, or not looking like the true painting at all, such as my latest rooster painting. There is so much knife work and it is so textured, but none of that shows up. Also certain colors (yellow / red) seem to stand out in a neon kind of way that does not represent the painting at all.

Last night I got a scanner and will see how the smaller works turn out.

Calla lily garden

16 x 20 acrylic on stretched canvas

a valentine for my husband (he plays the violin)

Happy Valentines Day

I'll post a painting of my favorite coffee mug. One in oil, one in acrylic, one in watercolor.
Of course you recognize the watercolor, I hope it looks like morning to you from the colors and the cast shadow. My kitchen is very bright in the morning, and as the sun comes up, the gold and pink colors are just amazing. Every morning I'm amazed and in awe of how it never gets old.

The acrylic is a knife painting 6 x 9" on hardboard. (YOU CAN GET A BETTER VIEW BY CLICKING ON THE PIC FOR A ZOOM IN)

In my hardboard paintings, the sides and back are finished in black for convenient easle display rather than in a frame. What I like about easle display is how easily you can change the color and decor in a room , the affordability of not having to frame every piece of art you want to collect, and it's the answer to 'no more wall space'.

heart shaped calla lily 24 x 36 " acrylic

knife painted pear in acrylic

6 x 9 masonite
painting on hardboard (looks good on a small standing easle.)

if you put the mouse over the pear and click, you will see a close up of the strong texture which is characteristic of knife painting. You will also see the many underlayers of paint showing through the various stages of the painting.

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this is oil, i may have to do one in another medium to eliminate that glare.

i had to return the new camera, it took 2 batteries which only lasted 15 or so min.
UNBELIEVABLE.
the downloading of the photos was also convoluted

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