watering cans in morning light

                                   20x24 oil on canvas  



This painting was washed in the soft glow of morning light.  I do believe that what we who paint are trying to d,o is capture the light as it wraps itself around the object we are viewing.  I love light!

New Studio

Finally the new studio in the country is completed.  Lots of room. Great Natural light coming in with the skylights.  I could not be happier with it. We will be traveling to Sicily and the Amalfi coast of Italy soon.  So much has happen in the last year or so and my posting on this blog has not been done, much to  my regret.  But I am trying again.  So let me get started with the next post!

Green pear painting and

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More pears and then asmall 8x10 oil on linen study of an Apple and red cup helped me forget all those green pears I had painting over and over!!!

Pears

Traveling and Painting, but failing to post so will begin again!!! Hungary, Austria, Germany, Spain, Alaska.

Also traveled in our wonderful United States.

Santa Fe, NM, Atlanta, Ga. Shorter trips, but just as wonderful as the longer trips I listed above.

But to start back posting, let me share this painting of Pears that I finished in NM. It is an oil on linen board that travels well. It is light weight and easy to pack.

12 x 16 oil on canvas board.

lobster boat at New Harbour Maine

8x10

oil on linen panel

$90

this is another of my plein air studies that I did at New Harbour this August. I had an opportunity to really study boats. We don't have that many chances to do that here in East Texas.

Oil Painting of Black Rooster

22x28

oil on stretched canvas

450.00 unframed

I took a photo of this fellow as he was going full speed. Painted him with large splashy strokes of thick oil paint.

Texas WildFlowers

30x40

oil on stretched canvas

Texas Wildflowers

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finished this one last week and it is now in its new home! I love doing bluebonnets.

I never thought I would have the opportunity to paint on location in Maine. So many artists have spoken of the beautiful light there. Well it is all beautiful. We were so fortunate to find such beautiful 70 degree weather all the time we were there in New Harbor, Maine, staying at the amazing property " The Moorings". It was sweltering here in Nacogdoches, tx in the 90s at the time. The crowds of visitors to Maine seemed to all be gone and the locals were beginning to board the windows up and get ready for winter. The flowers were putting on there final blaze of glory before the cold came in. I did this 11x14

11x14 oil on linen canvas oil sketch at Pemaquid Point looking east from 125.00 the light house.

Pointlookingeast the light house.

oil painting of New Harbor Maine

Lobster Shack

11x14

Oil on linen panel

While in New Harbor we often ate at Shaws fish and Lobster Wharf. Soooooo good.

Right across from it was a lobster shack that got some of the boats coming in with their crates of lobsters. We got up early one morning determined to paint on the restaurants wharf before anyone was out and about. Instead it was crowded with a boat full of people leaving for a day trip out to Monhegan Island which seems to just loom out on the horizon. (We are going there next year) We were able to do a couple of quick sketches any way and were ready for the afternoon location

Paintings of Maine

While we were staying at New Harbor, a must see, at the Moorings we painted each morning and evening. We ventured over to the harbor at Round Pond and set up our easels at the Lobstermens coop and I painted this little 9x12. Lunch was fresh lobster (9.95 each) and corn on the cob. It was cooler and the wind was blustery.

What a fine day!

9x12

oil on linen panel

$125.00

Apple Painting

This little painting was done on a 11x14 stretched

canvas with bristle brushes. Nice thick paint.

It was great to be back painting and posting

again. Off to Atlanta Ga next week for a work-

shop and then on to Maine with a friend to do

a little on location painting with all that wonderful

light!!!! Yeahhhhhh cant wait to get there

Texas Wildflower Painting

30x40

oil on canvas

Texas Wild Flowers

I completed this one recently. The photo is not as clear as I would like but it is painted on a large 40x50 canvas and is a commission work for a client. The texas wild flowers are bluebonnets, indian paintbrush and indian blankets.

Bluebonnet Painting in Oils

This painting was done earlier this spring. It is oils on stretched canvas 16x20. The bluebonnets, indian paintbrush and little mock dandelions are rendered loosely to get a sense of distance in the closeup design.

It can be yours for $300.00!

Orchid Painting

20x24

The trip to Greece in April was wonderful even with the long recovery of the respiratory problems I encountered along the way!! Summer has tempted and won me over to a relaxing time with my husband and family. I am still painting but not everyday as I had planned. My next few postings are of various works that I completed in oils on canvas. I hope you enjoy them. I am back to painting almost everyday. Looking forward to painting on location in Maine this month.

Pansies

6x8

original oil

100.00

It is almost time for the pansies to be pulled up here and replaced with flowers that can handle the hotter temperatures. I can not hardly stand to do it. So just a few in a tiny vase makes a lovely study.

Patio Door

20x24

Oil on Stretched canvas

500.00

Maybe the long stretch of silence in posting is over!!! I have finally hung my solo show in Shreveport La. 28 paintings at the Gardens of the American Rose. Exit to the gardens off of I20 is #5. Follow the signs, perhaps one mile off the interstate and visit the beautiful gardens and see my show. I hope you will like it. The roses will be best from mid April through mid May. My show will be up from April 1 through June 30.

The Artists' reception will be May 3, Sunday at 2:00. You are invited.

The painting posted above is the final one I finished for the show. It was done with bristle brushes, with the goal of catching the light outside the door as it rapidly changed.

Callas

16x20 oil on canvas

Calla Lily

I wanted to get the feel of callas twisting and searching for the light. I love this flower and sometimes I feel that is what I do in my own life. Search for the light. I used soft brushes in the oils with little build up on the canvas.

Thanks for stopping by and viewing my paintings

Painting of South American Chickens

16x20 oil

Chickens

This was a great little painting, working from photos my friend took in South America recently. Don't you like chicken paintings? I alway wonder why I do but they are something I like to paint.

Painting of White Roses and Shells

20x24 oil on stretched canvas

This is a high key painting that was done using oils with bristle brushes. Some build up of paint helps bring the focus into the roses.

Oil Painting of Pears

12x24 stretched canvas oil

Pears

After the painting session, they make great fruit salad!