Friday, October 5, 2007

Mariposa (sold)

Mariposa, oil on masonite, 5" X 5", 2007
sold

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Blue Bottle

Blue Bottle, oil on canvas, 5"x 7", 2007

Clementine (sold)


Clementine, 4" X 4", oil on canvas, 2007
sold

Winged Lever Style (sold)

Winged Lever Style, Oil on canvas. 7"X5", 2007
sold

Chipped Sugar Bowl (sold)


Chipped Sugar Bowl, oil on masonite, 5"x 7", 2007

sold

Have Another Bite (sold)



The last of my birthday cake!
Have Another Bite, oil on canvas, 7"x 5"(approximate), 2007

SOLD

Photos of paintings in the home #2

I frame pieces nearly as soon as I am able, and I put them around the house so I can live them a bit. This helps me to process the things I learned from each pieces and often leads to me dragging a painting back into the studio to work on it some more.




Sake Vase #3 (sold)


Sake Vase #3, oil on masonite, 5"x 7," 2007
(sold)

I love strong complementary color schemes, and the detail on the vase is a good challenge of observation and patience in painting.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Yellow Bath Salts (sold)



Yellow Bath Salts, oil on canvas, 5"x 7"(approximate), 2007

sold

Duane Keiser made a really lovely image of a cut glass vase with flowers in it. I thought of that image when I bought this little vase of bath salts, knowing that it was going to be a challenge. I'll no doubt paint it again, as it was as hard as I thought!

Photos of paintings in the home #1

I always like to see pictures of how people display the paintings they buy.
Intrepid Hal Bryan, off on what may have seemed like a Grand Tour in the old sense, came home to find the following on his wall:


I hope that he enjoyed his home coming.

Enjoy, Hal and Muffy!

Bust of Kwan Yin #2 (private collection)


Bust of Kwan Yin #2, oil on masonite, 7"x 5," 2007

(private collection)
This small alabaster bust of Kwan Yin is fascinating to me. The soft white features take on aspects of whatever its surroundings are-- in this case a green background and cool natural light.

Fiskar's Bypass Pruners


Fiskar's Bypass Pruners
,
oil on canvas, 7"x 5," 2007

$100 USD
e-mail me for purchase information

I set out to clip a rose from the garden to paint, and ended up painting the pruner's instead.