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This painting from a VERY old photo. The photo was taken on St. Croix in the USVI around 1981. I came across it a little while ago realizing it would make a great painting. The figure is looking for shells in Great Pond Bay on the Southern shore of St. Croix.
The painting is oil on gallery wrapped canvas 12x12.
The Studio Art & Soul exhibit at The Wine Therapist will be hanging until June 11. If you are in Dallas please visit The Wine Therapist located on Skillman @ Live Oak.
Arroyo Seco, is one of my favorite places to visit when in New Mexico. This pottery studio is one a several unique shops in this small village. I wish I could say to painted this En Plein Air, but I didn't. The photo I used was taken a few summers ago. The perfect time of day. Shadows and light.... PERFECT! Painting is much easier when the light is right.
9x12 oil on gallery wrap canvas - $100.00
This might have been one of those paintings that was a little easier. After all... you would have thought there was a lighting director...(there wasn't) and you might have thought the cows had a wrangler.... (there wasn't). This photo reference was from an outing with my artist buddies last year. We all met in Columbus, TX.. and three of us took off for the morning. We found these wonderful cows. The sun was in the perfect position... and the cows were as curious about us as we were about them. GREAT models. All three of us have benefitted greatly using these photos as reference for some fabulous paintings.For me.. I AM very proud of this painting. After all... when my husband sees a painting at the studio and wants me to bring it home.. I know it is a good painting.
9x12 oil on canvas - $100.00 (unframed)
Another crow to add to this series. I got this shot at a great time of day. The light and shadows were perfect. A flock of crows had just flown in to this spot and allowed me to snap several shots of them.
I feel like I am improving with these crows. I really like my soft edges, which is always a challenge for me.
This might be might favorite crow.
Suzy Moritz, Kay Wyne and I spent a beautiful day at the Dallas Arboretum painting. (We couldn't convince anyone else from the studio to join us for a plein air day.) This was a new experience for me. Painting en Plein Air. It was a lot of fun... but a whole new challenge. I attempted another painting with a LOT OF STUFF going on in it.... it was a "wiper". So I moved to another location which allowed a more simple view that was of White Rock Lake. Using a pallet knife, I chose to do an abstract of the lake. I know.. this is REALLY simple, but come on... I'm new at this and have had no formal instruction.
I did enjoy the experience and can't wait for the next outing. This day was a beautiful day at the Dallas Arboretum even though there was very little in bloom and most trees were bare.
I will improve because I will persist in getting it with plein air. I will eventually paint a painting that has detail in it.
Well.. I seem to be back in the groove. I would like to do a series of more crows. I do love painting them.
After my last crow "Struttin'"... I am thinking this guy needs to be redone.
My my.... I haven't posted since October. I have worked on some paintings that I haven't been pleased with.. but mostly I have been working with this new painting.This is a painting I have been trying to develope for several years. The photo is one I took while in San Miguel de Allende. I quickly took the photo ... afraid I would lose this woman with SO much character as she turned the corner. I had no idea of the scene... just the woman. When I looked at the photo, I was amazed at the whole scene. The colors you see are the true colors of that scene. The light cast on the wall is what we, as artists, are always looking for.
San Miguel de Allende is one of the most beautiful cities I have visited. I wander who is in charge of the pallet used to paint the city's buildings. Obviously, an artist.
24 x 36 oil on canvas
I painted this from the Google Map Street View as a challenge from Bill Guffey's VirtualPaintout.
I don't know why I wait until the end of the month (when the challenge is almost finished). At least I painted it.
San Miguel de Allende is a wonderful city in Mexico. The buildings are brightly colored. The streets invite painters to come and paint the many neighborhoods. The people are beautiful ... each is a painting. This street is in a residential neighborhood. (One of many that have been painted or is waiting to be painted.)
10 x 10 oil on gallery wrap canvas
$95.00
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I'm working on my encaustic blog. It has taken a while for the weather to allow me to produce new work for the blog. Fortunately, the weather has been great ... The last few days I have been able to open the studio for ventilation and heat up the wax. This landscape/abstract was a piece that I finished and was very happy with.
$35.00
I have gathered the images within the calendar and posting so that you can look inside the calendar. Even better, you can click on the link to Island Art and Soul to access each image individually.
Island Art and Soul, the 16th edition of Fine Caribbean art will be ready for shipping shortly. There are 13 images, ready for framing! Artists from the USVI, Puerto Rico and Culebra! The proceeds from the sale of the calendar benefit the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts located on St. Croix, USVI.
The calendar has been a passion of mine for the 16 years it has been published. The last 9 or 10 years, I have had the pleasure to be a promoter.
Order the 2010 Calendar
This week I visited The Modern in Fort Worth. The current exhibit is "William Kentridge: Five Themes". It was my first introduction to the South African Artist. I sketched his drawing "Soho Crying" Drawing for the film Stereoscope. Visiting this type of exhibit is always a good time for me to exercise my drawing skills. I seem to forget how much I enjoy drawing.
If you are in the Dallas/Fort Worth area between now and Sept. 27, you should plan to visit the exhibit at the Modern.
I'm posting this painting to introduce my new blog Beach Paintings. The beach has been one of my favorite vacation destination most of my life, but living in Dallas, it isn't as easy to get to the beach as I would like. I hope to catalog my memories of the beach with new paintings.This painting was painted after a great vacation with my long time friend and her daughters and granddaughter. Sabre (the granddaughter) loved this painting of her and has proudly hung it in her room (the best compliment ever).
This truck has been parked outside the Mercantile store in Arroyo Seco, NM. Everytime I have visited, I have tried to get a better photograph. I've painted it several times. This particular view, I've painted once before, in a smaller version. When it sold, my husband was disappointed, so I painted it for him, a little larger...(8 x 8) and I think a little better.
I'm traveling to New Mexico next week and I hope to see the pickup truck again. I have heard they moved it to the other side of the store, making it difficult to get a good shot of it. I hope it has been moved back to a proper photo location.
This is a painting I painted for the Different Strokes from Different Folks challenge. I thought I would pass when I first saw the photo that Karin Jurick posted. It was a boring image of a figure. I just didn't find it interesting at all. Then I realized that that made it even more of a challenge and an exercise that I should make myself do. I'm glad I did it. Finding the recipe for the black flesh was an exercise of its own. I think I did a pretty good job. I've included a copy of the photo.
I'm not sure which I am more fascinated, magpies or crows. Living in Texas, I do see crows, but not magpies. Luckily, my last trip to Taos, I managed to take a LOT of pictures of magpies. They seem to be very happy to have their pictures taken. Slowly, I am working on painting each magpie that allowed me to take their picture. 6x6 Oil on Ray Mar canvas panel.
$50.00
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This is my first contribution to the Different Stroke from Differenet Folks. It is a fun exercise. This "challenge" was a good exercise for me. I've never painted water before.... and although I love having people in my paintings... painting them small is a huge challenge.
Do to the painter's block I skipped the "Paris" Virtual Paintout assigned in May, so I was anxious to do this month's Florence Google Streets for the June Virtual Paintout. This landscape painting of a field of olive trees was a good exercise for me.
I love my little vacations while on Google Streets. I could plan a trip like no other. I have become addicted to Google Street Views. My husband will walk in while I am on the computer and automatically asks, "And ... where are we now?" This weekend... I discovered the countryside of the South of France. OMG.... I have never been... but am so ready to go more than I have ever been.
I have been in a serious painter's block the last month or so. I am feeling better, but am still looking for exercises to strengthen my creativity. Hopefully, the worse is over. This 8 x 8 oil painting is an exercise I did to try to break out of the block. It did help.
This Black and White Texas Longhorn is painted from a photo from a trip I took this spring to with my favorite painting buddies in and around Columbus, Texas. This was an unusual Longhorn in that he allowed me to take his picture. It seemed the Longhorns in the part of central Texas are very shy and really don't like to have their pictures taken.
