Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Cloudy day, oil on canvas

Atlanta Botanical Gardens-cloudy midday, 12x16, oil on canvas

I've been visiting Atlanta for the past few days and managed to see their lovely botanical gardens last Friday. It was about 100 degrees and quite hot and hazy, so the photo I took for this painting wasn't ideal. But I decided to paint the scene anyway since I'm always painting sunny scenes. It's a pretty huge contrast from the garden that I painted in my last post, and I must say that although the gardens were very beautiful , I prefer gardens that feel free, loose and a little wild. I think the tight rigidity of the painting above was a reflection of those feelings!

They do have a wonderful art sculpture showing there presently called "Bugs". I highly recommend seeing it if you're in the Atlanta area.

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Garden Tryst, After Monet

"Garden Tryst", 12x16, oil on canvas

Here is another study that I just completed after the paintings that Monet created during his time spent at Argenteuil. Although his home at Giverny is probably better known to most people, I have been just as fascinated with the works that he did at Argenteuil. This piece was done in my own palette, however, (rather than Monet's) as I wanted to make the piece my own. Since I have not had much chance to paint this summer, I was happy to be able to produce another painting that I was happy with. Please see my last entry, if you wish to see more of my Monet/Argenteuil studies.

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After Argenteuil- remembering Monet

"After Argenteuil", 8x10, oil on canvas


I think the hubby and I are done road-tripping for a while and after returning home last night I was anxious to paint. It's funny, but having been away from daily painting for over a month- I felt LOST today when I took out my paints!


I hardly knew where to begin. Finally, in desperation, I focused on what I think I know best- the French Impressionists. Their time at Argenteuil was fruitful. This painting was for me as well , as it marked the very first time in my history that I felt that I'd actually done a true IMPRESSIONIST painting. Most of my paintings are a cross between, impressionism, realism and expressionism. My artist friends have called my work New Age art, though I don't consider that a compliment. I've been painting now since the Spring of 2005- a little more than 2 years, and just about a year and a half with oils, so I shouldn't be too hard on myself. But having had the opportunity to travel to different galleries lately and see the works of other artists, I do find that I envy artists who began their careers at an early age and had the benefit of extensive training. I know I need to continue to work on my technique.


In the end, I would like to think that It's all coming out the way I suppose it was meant to come out, my art included!

I'd like to thank all the wonderful people who began collecting my paintings this year. It was a good year for me- and proved to me that I should continue to paint as people obviously enjoy the work that I produce. With a miserable economy here in the US, I only hope that people will continue to collect art which makes them feel happy, and I for one will endeavor to keep my prices low to permit middle class collectors to own an original oil painting composed by a person who only has a small number of good years to produce works that she and her collectors can be proud of.


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