Road to Paradise

Road to Paradise

oil

6"x 8"

$200.00

If only it were as easy and pleasant as getting together with old painting pals early on a Sunday morning in June - maybe the best day of the year so far. Great start to the summer - pleine-aire painting!

Cape Cod Saltmarsh SOLD

Saltmarsh 

oil, 12 x 16"

Sold at a new little gallery and gift shop in Barnstable called Mosees. This makes my weekend!

If only I could go back there and recreate the day and scene from the summer of 2010. It was July and  hot, and that water was irresistable. The marsh is in Brewster, where a tidal creek flows in and out of 

Cape Cod Bay. I was tempted to paint in the little sloop that we caught waking up just in time to skedaddle before the tide ran out, but they escaped being left high and dry! I stuck around long enough to capture the remaining higher water level. Such a happy memory of a wonderful place on a great day!

#25 Nine Times Six by Six

Post #25 - As promised:

Nine Times Six by Six

oil

nine 6 x 6 canvases wired separately but displayed as an installation of one composition

 $900 for all nine or sold individually at $100 each. Free shipping.

Here is the original composition of the floral still life. The idea ame to me when I first saw the wrapped up nine small canvases on display in the art shop. I just had to try out my idea. I decided to try to rework the individual canvases as if there were no overall composition. Now I have not tried to stack them up like they are here to reshoot the reworked paintings, but I thought you might enjoy seeing from whence they came. The biggest change is in the color of the pitcher. I altered the color to better match the colors of the flowers. I can tell you this: I enjoyed painting the works even more the second time around! Perhaps you'll go back and look at the individual blogs where these are posted, about # 15 to # 24. I'd love to hear your comments. Please send any comments on this blog by clicking here.

I hope to have one more post for you before beginning a long overdue road trip visiting some friends and relations and getting warmed up after a weekend in Vermont. I'll post some sketches from my travels.

#21 - Hoot

#21 - Hoot

6 x 6"

oil

$110.00

Getting into the home stretch of our Thirty in Thirty Challenge!
This blog challenge has had a profound effect on me. I have actually painted every day of January, though not always posted - there's been a bit of a learning curve postponing a couple of posts. I have settled into my downsized studio and stowed neatly an abundance of art gear. I've discovered new followers who have said good things about my work - you know how I like hearing that!

I've put my neck out on a limb with this funky semi abstract series of flower paintings. I really love these blue-green concoctions. If you do too, here's how you can easily make one yours. Click on the Buy Now button, or email me on the link which says here. You will have a painting arrive on your doorstep in about a week, ready to hang on a wall or sit on a shelf.

Or email me here.

Dead Center and Bottom Center

Dead Center and Bottom Center - #5 and #8 of this rejuvenated multi-canvas composition.

Oh, you thought it was a football team lineup in honor of the Big Game coming up next Sunday. Well, maybe so, if blue and green are the colors of the teams playing - my favorite color combination. If you love it too, then take a look at these. Nine six-inch squares fit together like a puzzle into a big square. Separately each stands alone as a floral element. You can turn the pieces any which way and have a couple of the prettiest tulip and iris arrangements. You don't even have to hang them on the wall. They have thick sides and will stand alone on a table or shelf. These two happen

 to fit together because of the vase. The rest - anything goes. I'll be posting more of them. Collect just one if you want. Or a few to make a colorful grouping.

On Day 21 of the Thirty in Thirty Challenge, these are my 16th and 17th posts.

oil

6 x 6"

$100 plus shipping or buy two for $175.

Please choose one or both:

Dead Center only $100.00 USD Bottom Center only $100.00 USD Both Centers $175.00 USD