Thursday, April 30, 2015

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Marc,portrait,oil,16x12,priceNFS

Marc was a model we had. I enjoyed painting him. I'm still working on house breaking our new puppy. I will return to my painting when we are all broken in.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Another Jen,portrait,oil,16x12,priceNFS

This is another painting of Jen with her dreadlocks. I'm still house breaking our new puppy and watching art tapes as she sleeps.

Monday, April 27, 2015

View of Mt Baker,landscape,12x12,price$400

I am not painting this week. I need to train our my puppy. So I will put up some of my older paintings and drawings.

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Saturday, April 25, 2015

April Geranium,still life,oil on canvas,5x7,price$125

This is today's painting of one of my geraniums. The deer are eating the flowers off of these plants. I worked more on yesterday's painting I'll get an image up tomorrow of it.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Bachelor Buttons,still life,oil on canvas,7x5,price$125

These are the first of my cornflowers or bachelor buttons from my garden. I still need to work on this painting to clean it up a little.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Farm under Mount Baker,landscape,oil on canvas,5x7,price$175

Today's painting is a landscape of one of our farms in the county. Mt. Baker in the background. Also, I tried taking another image of yesterday's bath toys painting with the flash. Still not the right colors.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Bath Toys,still life,oil on canvas,6x6,price$150

This is different. From dogs to duck. I enjoy painting everything.The duck in the painting is so yellow and this image doesn't show up bright yellow. I'll try to take the image again on an overcast day.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Park Bark.figure,oil on canvas,10x8,price$450

This was a couple walking their tiny dog in one of our local parks by the bay. They don't look like their doggy. So there goes that theory, that you start to look like your pet.

Monday, April 20, 2015

Dog Walk,figure,oil on canvas,10x8,price$450

I think people start to look like their dogs. I took this photo because I thought it might make a good painting. We were down in Edmonds at the farmers market.

Sunday, April 19, 2015

First Peony,still life,oil on canvas,10x8,price,NFS

This is a painting I did of my first peony from last May. I see this year's peonies have buds now. I'm excited to paint them again.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Petunia cutting,still life,oil on canvas,7x5,price$100

I had a petunia cutting sitting in my studio all week. I painted it today. A lot of white on white in this painting.The wall, the table, and the petunia were all white.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

My Tools.still life,oil on canvas,12x9,price$350

Today I made a still life of my brushes ,palette knives, and paint tubes. I am also pitting up the drawings that I did of Cara this morning at our drawing group.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Two Avocados,still life,oil on canvas,6x6,price$200

It is so amazing how many colors I see in painting fruit and vegetables. Today's painting was of two avocados.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Fresh Raspberries,still life,oil on canvas,6x6,price$200

Today's painting is of a pack of fresh California raspberries. I painted a raspberries painting for the label of the Dutch beverage company, but this is my first for sale to the public. I also worked on the painting of Chelsea that had no spot light on her and had the dark background. I changed the background.

Monday, April 13, 2015

Earth Tone Jars,still life,oil on canvas,9x12,price$300

I haven't painted in the earth tone colors for a long time. It's a dark rainy day today. I looked in my box of bowls,mugs and jars and these were the items I pulled out to paint.

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Ballet Slippers,still life, oil on canvas,8x10,price$300

Painting of Ballet slippers from last year. I thought I would put them up again. I hope I can get back to painting tomorrow.

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Lilacs,still life,oil on canvas,11x14,price $400

I worked in the garden today. So this is an older painting. My lilacs will be in full bloom next week.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Tulip Valley,landscape,oil on canvas,8x10,price$400

This is today's landscape painting of the Skagit Valley tulips here in Washington state. I think so many of the photos I took last week would make good abstract paintings as well.

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Tulip Fields in the Rain,figure,oil on canvas,10x8,price$200

This painting is from a photo I took yesterday while down in the tulip field. I had to paint The little girl in pink with the bright flowers behind her.

Friday, April 3, 2015

Chelsea,portrait,oil,16x12,priceNFS

This is another painting I did Tuesday night of our model. No spot light on her only the over head fluorescent lights. Makes for a very flat person painting when there isn't a spot light. Today we spent time down in the tulip fields in the rain. Lovely colors.I'll paint from the photos. Too wet to sit there and paint.

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Geranium #6,still life,oil on linen,10x8,price$200

This is the 6th geranium that I've painted in the last couple of weeks. I see so many different greens in the leaves. It is fun for me. But I think I'll try some other subject tomorrow.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

April Geranium,still life,oil on canvas,10x8,price$200

Today I painted one of my geranium plants with a white background.I've been having fun with these paintings. Last night I returned to our long pose figure group and painted Chelsea. I haven't been there since November. So a dark background went up behind our model and no spotlight. No light except the Fluorescent light over head and a green light by the door. No spot light makes for a figure with no form, just flat. So I did the best I could painting Chelsea. I will suggest that we try the spot light again in a couple of weeks.