My Kind of Valentine

"Symphony"

6x6    museum quality panel

$95

My kind of Valentine's gift is not a  box of chocolates, bouquet of flowers or dinner out.   Give me a day at the studio, uninterrupted painting time and a finished painting, that's my idea of heaven.  Low maintenance kind of gal unless you mess with my painting time.  Happy Valentine's Day!

Get in, Get out SOLD!!!!!!

"Impressions"

6x6   Museum quality panel

$95

SOLD

One of my goals as an artist is to maintain the freshness in a painting.  For me it's a bit harder the larger I go but in my small studies, I think I can achieve this.  Mainly one pass of paint, lay the brushstroke down and move on.  As in "get in, get out".  While one area needed tweaking, I'm mostly satisfied.  I'm starting some larger paintings over the next few weeks, let's see if I can maintain the freshness.  Sorry the photo isn't very good, I'll try to repost.

Give me a knife

"Apple, Deconstructed"

2 6x6 museum quality panels

$95 each

When I started my painting for the Daily Paintworks Challenge, little did I know that the painting would be the least of my issues.  This week was a Ten Minute Challenge.  Choosing one subject & setting the timer for 10 minutes for each 3" piece.  While I stuck within the one subject challenge, I decided to tweak it a bit by "deconstructing" my apple as I went.  Some of the paintings look a slight "askew" because I had the most dull knife at the studio.  Deconstructing took on the look of destroying about half way through.  By the last painting, I had hacked the apple to the point that I had to tape the bottom of the core (see photo below for my lovely knife work) & then use the roll of tape to keep it upright.  I really enjoyed this challenge and it's now going to be an exercise for my students.  Hope you will check out the other challenge paintings at Daily Paintworks Challenge . 

                       

No Cars in Sight

"Sunlit"

8x6  Oil on museum quality panel

$95

Don't remember ever painting cars before but I've painted two back to back this week.  Taxed my brain too much so now it's time to escape to the sanity of a landscape.

Challenge

"Cruising St. Augustine"

6x6  Oil on museum quality panel

$95

Thanks to Daily PaintWorks a new painting challenge has started.  The first challenge was this black car and all it's glorious reflections.  Not a subject I would tackle most days, however, throw in the buildings from Flagler College in St. Augustine and I'm in.  I lived two blocks from Flager College and loved it.  So I've accepted the challenge...now the question is did I suceed?

Not a Weed in Sight

"California Dreamin'"

8x6  Oil on museum quality panel

$95

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Looking back a week ago, I was struggling to get out of the weeds and start painting again.  One week later & paintings are flying off the easel.  Yipee!  Last night my friend, Julie Hill, was so kind to share a wonderful photo of her morning commute to drop her daughter off at school.  Little did she know that I was going to snag her picture and paint it.   Inspiration shows up just when you need it.  Thanks Julie and I hope she will paint her vision of this picture.  Julie, are you listening? 

Weeds Be Gone

"Les Carottes"

6x12 Oil on Linen

Reserved

Ten minutes at Fresh Market, One bunch of carrots, Two hours at the easel.  If you've followed my blog, you are well aware of my passion for the produce section.  I ran into the store in hopes of finding inspiration and came out with the most beautiful carrots.  Too pretty to be called "carrots" so I decided that the french name "carotte" was more appropriate.  This painting is headed into a museum still life competition.  Eating carrots with fingers crossed.  I've included a photo of the carrots just to show how fresh & flawless my subject matter was.