Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Sunflowers in blue vase with fruit

"Bistro Bouquet", 12x16, oil on linen (Raymar) panel-$345

This painting was done with palette knife only and has passages of thick impasto. It just came out of a show, so I am able to offer it for sale here. Please use the Paypal button below to purchase.

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Monday, July 06, 2009

Island Magic-18x24

"Island Magic", 18x24, oil on panel-$395

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Thursday, July 02, 2009

The Getaway Cottage-plein air, alla prima

"The Getaway Cottage", 9x12, oil on wrapped canvas-$145

I visited St. Augustine this week and it seems I never get tired of the quirky architecture in that ancient city. You can pass a gorgeous Victorian mansion on one corner, turn down a side street and be greeted by an old ramshackle house with a tin roof . The main style of architecture in the historic district was strongly influenced by the Spanish for a time. The later colonial period brought the architecture of colonial America into play, and the two and three story wooden houses with the second story porches is the style that I most readily connect with St. Augustine. Whatever style you prefer- St. Augustine homes are old-very old- and like fine wine and mature women, their facades are filled with character and a comfortable familiarity that borders on déjà vu.

Even though the heat was practically unbearable this week, (96 degrees with very high humidity) I got out and painted for a few hours yesterday. This cute little house with a tin roof and wooden shutters was the result. I think it looks inviting, don't you?

This was painted with palette knife only and has thick passages of paint. To see the impasto better, check out the photo below, in which I photographed the painting outside and the impasto shows clearly: (You can also click on the photo to see it better)



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Monday, June 29, 2009

Bellissima World-Sunflowers in a white pitcher

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"Bellissima World", 12x16, oil on linen panel-$145

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Days of Wine and Roses (and ugly tomatoes)

"Days of Wine and Roses-(and ugly tomatoes)", 12x16, oil on gallery wrapped canvas (sides are painted as well, so a frame is note required- see image below)-$225


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I LOVE this painting!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I love ugly tomatoes! Especially when you slice them and dip them in flour and fry them in butter! Yum! Add some corn on the cob and mashed potatoes and you are set to go!!!!!

The main reason I love this painting is because it will brighten up an all -white kitchen (like I have) with the vibrant colors. Much of my husband's family is Italian, so as a result I have learned to make "gravy", aka Spaghetti or Marinara sauce. Thursday nights were family rituals in which the family would gather around the dinner table for a big dinner of pasta, "gravy", crusty bread and a salad. Now that sounds even better than fried tomatoes! I miss those family dinners now that the kids have grown and we all live far from each other. Big sigh inserted here.



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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Swansong- ballet art

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"Swansong"- 14x18, oil on canvas-$550

Odette is the tragic heroine in the classical ballet Swan Lake. The music by Tchaikovsky was commissioned by the Russian Imperial Ballet in 1895 and is incredibly inspiring-and the ballet was originally fashioned after Russian folk tales in four acts. Odette is a princess turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart's curse, who wants his evil daughter Odile to wrestle the handsome Prince Sigfried's heart away from the gentle Odette. The ballet is a love story of enchantment and tragedy, as only the Prince's undying love can break the curse and free Odette and the other swan maidens of the sorcerer's curse.

When I was artistic director of my ballet company back in the 1990's, we performed a full length Swan Lake 2 or 3 different times. The challenges of staging a ballet of this magnitude on a small company were tremendous, but I was ambitious and the rewards of re-creating the magic of that ballet eventually overshadowed the work that was involved. I painted this scene in memory of the many hours of love I put into the restaging of the ballet , after the choreography of Marius Petipa. I can tell you that I didn't work nearly as hard on creating this painting, as I did in re-staging that ballet!

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Washington's Headquarters-Valley Forge

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"Washington's Headquarter's-October", 9x12, oil on wrapped Masterpiece linen canvas-$350

I did this piece a while back, but didn't post it, because I had not decided to sell it until recently. I have such fabulous memories of hiking and biking in the foothills of Valley Forge National Park, when I lived in the area not that long ago, and Washington's Headquarter's was an all-too familiar site for me in those days of living, working and playing in beautiful Chester Country, Pennsylvania.

With the birthday of America's independence right around the corner, I decided to offer this painting for sale. For savings on other paintings of Valley Forge and American landscapes, please click my holiday sale page here.

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Fourth of July Sale! Paintings celebrating America!

To celebrate America's upcoming 233rd birthday, I am offering some very deep discounts on the selected paintings listed below for one week only. The paintings below depict America as we know and love it, from historical Valley Forge in Pennsylvania to the incredible big skies and rugged coastline of the Great Western parts of our beautiful country! This sale will end on July 4th at midnight with no exceptions, so please take advantage of this artist's patriotic heart and purchase an original oil painting of beautiful America, at ridiculously low prices! Here's wishing all of my friends, collectors and fellow artists a
very happy, safe and relaxing holiday!



"Winter's Chill- Valley Forge", 8x10 , oil on canvas- $75

I once lived a short drive to Valley Forge National Park and the beauty of the place never ceased to amaze me. Whether it was deer grazing in autumn meadows, or the deep fog that sometimes encompassed the valleys on a chilly winter morning, I'll always love Valley Forge, and I miss the bike rides that my husband and I would take there on Saturday mornings to unwind after a hectic week of work. In winter, Valley Forge has an almost mystical quality to it. I tried to capture some essence of the quality of a cold wintry day in that historically mystical field when I painted this.

If you would like to purchase "Winter's Chill" in a gorgeous mahogany plein air frame as shown below, please add an additional $25 to the purchase price, or email me for a new invoice.


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SOLD- "Oh Beautiful, for spacious skies!", 16x20, oil on wrapped canvas-$225-, (Was $450!)

Big Sky country! It could be Montana, Colorado, or Arizona! The beauty of the American landscape is indisputable, and as varied as its sunsets! This painting can frame up to 20 x25 and even larger and would look lovely in a western decor. Lavish color and palette knife impasto need to be seen in order to be appreciated.

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SOLD- "A Fisherman's Sunset", 12x16, oil on canvas panel-$79-(Original price-$160)

This painting could be a tiny edge of a New England coastal town or a simple crab shack in the Florida Keys! You decide! A dramatic painting filled with wild passion and emotion- thick impasto and powerful knife strokes make this a definite conversation piece wherever it may hang!

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SOLD-"Family Vacation", 12x16, oil on canvas panel-$89.00-Original price $145

Soft color gives a happy relaxing feel to this painting about life's little pleasures. Painted with brushes in a limited palette. Note: If you click on the image you'll notice the bearded guy in the background. That happens to be my sweet adorable husband who happened to be with me at the beach the day I painted this piece!

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"Roses and Periwinkle", 11x14, oil on canvas- Framed as shown- $75.00

The cool of the periwinkles against the warm-colored roses adds a nice tension to this painting. This painting would look lovely in almost any room and especially where a warm red or cool blue is an accent color. As you can see from the image below, a typical American home would be a perfect setting for this lovely floral. It is being sold ready to hang in this lovely silver/pewter frame which is included in the sale price!


Note:This painting is not to scale with the room depicted above. The painting has been sealed with a protective high gloss enamel.

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"Pacific Blues", 12x16, oil on canvas panel-$150- Was $350!

This is the 4th painting that I have done of the Big Sur Coastline, and I'm sure it won't be the last. The push and pull of the painting is in the drama between the warm earth tones and the coolness of the water, sky and bluffs. It is guaranteed to hold captive anyone who has ever fallen in love with the Pacific coast.

Big Sur is located along Scenic Highway One, approximately 150 miles south of San Francisco and 300 miles north of Los Angeles. Historically, the name Big Sur was derived from that unexplored and unmapped wilderness which lays along the coast south of Monterey. It is a 90 mile stretch of rugged and heart-wrenchingly beautiful coastline between Carmel to the north and San Simeon (Hearst Castle) to the south. Highway One winds snakes along the coast at sometimes heart-stopping heights with the majestic Santa Lucia mountain range on one side and the rocky Pacific coast on the other.


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All Alone

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"All alone", 8x10, oil on linen-$49

A foggy morning, the horizon is imperceptible from the shoreline as a lethargic sun makes it's weary ascent into the heavy humidity that pervades everything. It will be hot and sultry again today, and as a small sailboat rocks aimlessly in the mist, one is reminded of how undependable life is, often leaving us drfting aimlessly on life's paths which are about as predictable as a late day storm.

I have reworked this painting a couple times, because of my own moody forays into days of unpredictability and lack of substance, and as a result I am offering it at a deeply discounted price. By the way, I wrote the above description because there are some days that I'd much rather be writing non -musical jingles for a J. Peterman catalog than trying to paint.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Family Vacation-original oil painting

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"Family Vacation", 12x16, oil on canvas panel-$145

This time next week, families all across the country will be preparing for the long Fourth Of July weekend. The fourth of July weekend means a lot of things for a lot of people, including independence, liberty, freedom, as well as family time without the hampering of schedules, etc, that a normal work week presents.

I hope in these hectic times, that we can all find time to be with our loved ones and enjoy some quality time together.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Jungle Music- God Bless the Rains

"Jungle Music- God Bless the Rains", 11x14, oil on canvas panel- $145
Note : please click on the image to see the impasto.

This one is pretty wild, but it's also rather cool. I like it a lot, because the strokes seem to be dancing. Must be because I was listening to Toto's Africa, recorded by the Colgate 13, while I was painting this. Wanna listen to the Toto version? It's really cool, though I like the Colgate 13 version , too, which was done a capella. My son was leader of the group when they recorded it for their Cadence album in 2001. Here's the Toto version:




If this painting doesn't sell, it's going into a "Green" exhibition at Art Center Sarasota next week, so grab it quick if you want a really wild painting! And if you like acapella music done really well, purchase some CD's by the Colgate Thirteen. My favorite albums are Cadence and Stargazing. You can listen to Africa sung a capella by clicking this link and going to the Stargazing album, and then clicking on track #11. I like this version a lot, though I like the version on the Cadence CD better.

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Monday, June 22, 2009

"Nantucket Morning"

"Nantucket Morning", 12x16, oil on wrapped canvas

I am very pleased to be represented by Lorica Artworks, in Andover , Massachusetts. Please stop by if you are in the area and visit this beautiful gallery just north of Boston. "Nantucket Morning" is one the paintings that are featured there. It is a very serene scene culled from my memories of trips that the hubby and I would take in the summertime to one of three of our favorite vacation destinations- Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and Newport were places where the scenery was always lovely, the salt air was invigorating and the chowdah was the best around!

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Sunday, June 21, 2009

L'heure d'éte

"L'heure d'éte ", 14x18, oil on canvas

I did a painting of this scene in Provence a few months ago and it sold. I had really been happy with it at the time, so I decided to try another one- this one a little larger than the last one. I used raw umber in the shadows and to unite the painting, but it's not a color that I am accustomed to using. I bought it for a portrait workshop once and never used it after that, but now that I've worked with it I am finding that I really like its diversity, in terms of mixing with other colors. What I didn't know about raw umber is how fast it dries! I painted this yesterday and when I tried to go back in today and re-work some of the passages, they were already dry where the umber was! So rather than not paint wet-into- wet, I'm going to let it be just as is. This is one of the paintings that will be in my solo exhibit next month through The Venice Art Center's satellite program, so I am not offering it for sale at this time.

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Friday, June 19, 2009

Oh Beautiful, for Spacious Skies

"Oh Beautiful, for spacious skies!", 16x20, oil on wrapped canvas-$450

I've been reading a lot about limited palettes recently, so I feel a little guilty about this painting. As a colorist, it's hard for me to limit myself to mixing from the three primaries, although I have tried it and I admit it unifies the painting overall. This one started out that way, but I didn't last long within the limitations. Tonight I happened to chance upon the gorgeously colorful website of Don Sahli, an incredible painter who studied directly under Russian colorist Sergei Bongart. I have read some of Bongart's writings, and I know that if I had to paint without certain "stainers" as he called them, I'd lose interest in painting altogether! So as a colorist, I think I'll never be able to throw away my quinacridones or my Indian yellow, which I think is made from cow urine, by the way! Check out Sahli's website and then tell me he accomplished tohose gorgeous paintings using a limited palette!

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Nadia, portrait study

"Nadia", 14x18, oil on linen

Tuesday morning is my day to paint from a live model at a private studio. Although I was totally out of sorts this week, I did manage to turn out a decent painting, I believe. This week our model was Nadia, a woman with wonderful features, and very different from Carl of last week. It was her first time to model for painters and she kept changing position, but her large lips, small nose and Mediterranean coloring made up for it. Nadia is part Spanish with I think some Romanian blood as well, and overall she made for a very interesting model. We asked her to come back next week as well.

Although I should probably develop this painting a little more, I think I am going to put it aside for now and concentrate on new pieces for my upcoming solo exhibit in Venice in July. I am running out of time! If you have any interest in purchasing this painting, please email me at maryannejacobsen@aol.com.