Peeping Pansies, tile art

This piece took me 2 months to complete. I guess that's why I haven't started another one yet. It's china oils painted on ceramic tile. The tiles are baked in a kiln at a very high temperature after the painting is completed and the colors are so brilliant after they are baked that they just jump right out at you! I really need to do a couple more of these pieces as they are really beautiful and make unique gift items as well.

"Peeping Pansies", 12 by 24, oil on ceramic tile

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Paradise found

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I've been quite busy getting ready for a house full of visitors this weekend, (three of which happen to be my precious sons!) Next week we are all going down to the Keys where I hope to catch up on a lot of plein air painting. None of these preparations has allowed me to do much painting recently. So I decided to post one of my very first paintings, a tropical scene that I did with acrylics and retouched with oils. This painting would look great in a beach house or a minimalist house that wants to sit by a beach, I think. I also think it's time to part with it, although for some reason I have a hard time selling my earliest pieces. Perhaps because I know how much angst went into each one, when I was going on sheer gut instinct rather than experience! What a difference a year makes....(sigh)

"Paradise found", acrylic retouched with oil, on gallery-wrapped canvas, 23 by 30 inches

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Norwegian Wood, abstract painting

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Today's painting is a large abstract. I do enjoy painting with acrylics because you can create interesting textures. This painting has subtle color and a lot of interesting texture. If you can click on the image you can see it better.

"Norwegian Wood", 20 by 28 inches, acrylic and oil on gallery wrapped linen

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Chester Springs snowfall

Before moving to Florida I lived in a beautiful little town 30 miles west of Philadelphia called Chester Springs. I lived in a charming stone farmhouse and there was a pond behind my house and a farm where horses grazed. Chester Springs is in Chester County, which is also Andrew Wyeth's world. I miss it a great deal. For Thanksgiving I painted this scene of a Chester Springs farmhouse on a large square of masonite. I decided to name it "Over the River and through the Woods" after that little ditty that I used to sing as a child. Although I was originally not happy with the painting for a lot of reasons, I added some glazes to it and now it's definitely more unified. This is one of the pieces that I'll be entering into Art Center Sarasota's "Holiday Treasures" juried art show next week.

"Over the river and Through the Woods", 24 by 24, oil on masonite

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Have a happy, safe and blessed Thanksgiving!


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Busy painting EVERY DAY!

I've been painting a couple holiday pieces for an upcoming art show at the end of this month, so I haven't had much time to get Online. I'll post pictures of them when they are finished.

Autumn at French Creek, 16 by 2O, oil on canvas- $525 framed (Available through Abbacino Galleria, Venice Florida)

Gaudy bouquet, A painting a day

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The teacher stuck a bunch of fake orange tiger lilies in a glass vase and then draped a fushia colored curtain behind it. Yuck! I had to paint it and I wasn't thrilled. So I did. He came over to my painting, stared at it awhile and finally said, "Well! There sure isn't anything timid about that! It's very Van Gogh-ish." Then he walked away. I added some blue irises and purplish- pink flowers to the whole mess to try to counter balance the pink and orange vibrations. The result is gaudy. Whatever.

A Gaudy bouquet, 12 by 16 oil on masonite.

The Courtyard, A painting a day

I started this a couple weeks ago when I visited the Maitland Art Center in Maitland, Florida. They have a lovely courtyard there where you can paint, meditate or pray. I finished it today, but I'm really not very pleased with it. I hadn't taken a picture of it, so I was trying to paint from memory. At least I finished it.

The Courtyard at Maitland Art Center, oil, 9 by 12

Old Boat, New Day, A Painting a day

I live just a few minutes driving distance to the Gulf of Mexico and Intracoastal Waterway. There's a place on the island where one can watch the sunrise over the Intracoastal, and I have painted there quite a few times in the past. My one gripe with the spot is that the boats there are invariably old and in some cases abandoned. I finally decided to paint this sunrise scene of an old boat on the water because I figured there are millions of paintings of new sleek boats with wide billowing sails, but few artists take the time to paint an old thing that's likely someone's treasure and probably quite experienced in its own right of seaworthiness! Sort of like mature women, myself included, though I'm definitely not seaworthy!

So I painted, "Old boat, New day" and think I need to mess with the values on the boat a little more...

Hmmm...Maybe it's better to leave it alone and show it and my own lack of perfection...

Old boat, New Day, oil on masonite, 12 by 16

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Frangipani, a painting a day

Now that I've painstakingly framed and hung my exhibit (25 paintings-Whew!) I can get back to my daily painting again. I spied a frangipani in my neighbor's yard and it was just too pretty not to paint. I painted it en plein air, with a palette knife, no brush, hence there's a lot of impasto.

Frangipani, Oil on gallery-wrapped canvas, 5 by 7

For those unfamiliar with this flower, it is rather rare and very exotic. It is plentiful in Hawaii , where the Hawaiians construct those lovely leias from the flowers. Perfume is also made from the flower and the sap that exudes from the plants long branches can burn the skin. I have a huge frangipani in my yard as well, but it doesn't have the tinges of peach in it, that my neighbor's has, so I chose to paint hers instead of my own. It does drop its leaves in the fall and they are a mess! They are just beginning to drop now. Here's a photo of it...

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Sardinia revised

It seems that every one of the paintings that I chose to put in my exhibit needed a little futzing with.

Although I had thought I liked this one after I finished it, I ended up changing a couple things before I hung it today. Unfortunately there is some wet paint, but I like the way it looks better now, as the foreground is warmer.

Sardinia is a beautiful island in the Mediterranean, just south of Corsica. It's a very expensive island to travel to, and it's been on my wish list for years.

"Sardinia", 24 by 24 , oil on masonite.

I used the following photo of a villa in Sardinia from a Tuscan villa website for reference when I did the painting. Since Sardinia is off the western coast of Italy, the vegetation there is very similar to that in Tuscany, which is why I added the sunflowers and poppies in the foreground.

Sigh. I'd have to sell a helluva lot of paintings to get there...

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