Day 24 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days

The Blue Vase

10" x 10"

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

This is one of my favorite vases and I have painted it several times but I love pairing it with different items for still life setups.

Day 9 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days

So Happy Together

6" x 6"

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Today needed to be quick because I didn't have much time so I went back to something I know well and that is pears. I have painted many pears and I still love them so much. I never get tired of them!

Sunflower still life

The Sunflower

12 x 12

oil on canvas

Another still life from my still life obsession lately! Loved using lots of juicy oil paint, so much fun!!

Still Life Fever!!

Hydrangeas in Turquoise Vase

18 x 24

oil on canvas

I suppose you can guess what is blooming in my yard!!! Yes it is my Annabelle hydrangeas that I absolutely love, so I have been cutting and painting. I have also gone back to painting in oil for the time being. I like to go back and forth and I am definitely in an oil paint kind of mood and loving it! Hope you enjoy the paintings!!!

Spring Flowers

My Favorite Flowers

24"x 20"

oil on canvas

 Cameron's Tulips

16" x 20"

oil on canvas

I know I don't post to my blog often enough but I am on Spring Break now so I finally got a chance to do some of the things that get pushed to the side in everyday life! It is gorgeous here and everything is green and the sun is shining which makes me want to paint flowers!!! I spent the better part of the day yesterday searching for hydrangeas for my still life set up! I have several hydrangea bushes in my yard but they are not blooming yet. 

Last weekend I was fortunate enough to be able to go to the lake for a party for my niece who is getting married in May. The tulips were arranged on the table and I was frequently caught repositioning them so I could take photos of them. They were just so beautiful I couldn't help myself.  I hope you enjoy my springtime flowers, I certainly enjoyed painting them!

Three New Paintings

14 x 11

Acrylic on Panel

"Right Where We Belong"
NFS

12 x 12

Acrylic on Canvas

Robins' Eggs
Sold

10 x 10

Acrylic on Canvas

Three Grannies
Sold

I haven't posted in a really long time, but I have still been painting, just not lots of time for posting! But I am on Fall Break now and had a chance to photograph some of my latest pieces and wanted to share them with you. I hope you enjoy them!

Vegetables Anyone?

Summer vegetables

10x8

oil on canvas

This is another painting done for Karin Jurick's DSDF challenge, however I was attending a workshop right after I finished it and never got it e-mailed to Karin for her to post but you can see everyone else's versions on her blog. I really had fun with this one and finished it in under an hour! 

C & C Creativa Painting Journey

Carole's Studio

16 x 20 Acrylic on Canvas

Pink Gerber Daisy

6 x 12 Acrylic on Artist Board

I had a marvelous time last weekend at the C&C Creativa Painting Journey with Carole Foret and Claire Kayser! This was such an inspirational time as well as a great time of fellowship, relaxation and excellent food! We painted outdoors all day on Friday and the weather was absolutely beautiful. The painting of Carole's studio was done from across the street on the courthouse lawn! Since I was with Carole I decided to try her WAVY style and I waved a little but probably not enough. At any rate it was lots of fun. Saturday we had a great day of painting indoors and I completed the painting below of the Gerber daisy along with a couple of others that I have not finished yet. We had a great time doing yoga with Steffan De Graffenreid at Updog Yoga! We also got a surprise visit from one of Carole's friends, Jason Gray, who is a Christian music artist and he played a little bit for us. I would highly recommend this retreat to anyone interested in painting, having fun, getting away, etc.... I hope to get to do it again sometime in the future.  Great job Carole and Claire!

10 x 10 

Acrylic on Canvas

This painting was done at Carole Foret's Wine and Paint she did at The Ledges last night. There were 25 people there and it was lots of fun!  I hope you like all the paintings and I hope to post more very soon.

Flowers

Pink & Green

14" x 11"
 oil on canvas

With the arrival of spring I have been in the mood to paint flowers, so yesterday on my way home from work I stopped off at Fresh Market and picked up these hot pink roses. The Granny Smith apples in the fridge looked so great with them that I knew right away this would be my composition. Now I want to paint even more flowers! I hope you like it! Please contact me if you are interested in this painting.

Sunflower still life

Still Life Mood

Grannies in a Bowl

9 x 12 Acrylic on Canvas

$40

I have been working on several still life paintings lately, trying to get back to basics and simplify my painting in an attempt to loosen up. I have done two paintings with green apples, and two paintings with flowers........ugh.....I'm not very good at flowers, but I will keep practicing! I may post photos of the other paintings if I can get good photos. I painted some of them in oils and I have a difficult time getting good photos of my oil paintings because of glare. Hope everyone is doing well!

Still Life

Peas in a Pod

10" x 10" 

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

I felt like I was getting way too tight in my painting and wanted to do something to loosen up. I decided to go back to still lifes for awhile to try and make that happen, using as few strokes as possible to get the image I wanted.  I still think I could loosen up some more so next I am going to do some green apples. Can you tell I love green! Hope you like it.