La Casa Vecchia

Rome, Italy

9” x 12” oil on canvas

Daily Paintworks 

starting bid:  $75

The Virtual Paintout has gone to Rome! Using Google Street View, I wandered around that wonderful city looking for just the right thing to paint. I was looking for something that would go beyond the familiar sites and express my love for this city. This is what spoke to me: a big old house that looks like it has sheltered generations of family members. It feels like it’s in the country yet it is still  in the city limits. You can easily imagine Nonna in the kitchen, Nonno out in the garden, the family coming together for Sunday dinner.

This little piece is painted on all sides of the canvas, so it could be framed, or you could hang it up as it is.

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at The Daily Paintworks, or visit one of the other sites I show at. Thanks for looking!

Giant Sycamore

8 x 10”   oil on canvas

Daily Paintworks  $75

What a pleasure it is to paint a pretty little landscape such as this, even if it’s from a photograph. This giant is a sycamore, one of many at McClellen Ranch Park  where we were hiking - with me taking lots of pictures. Those pictures come in handy when you have an urge to paint a landscape but the weather has turned cold and rainy. 

This little painting is painted on all sides of the canvas, so it could be framed, or you could hang it up, just as it is.

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at The Daily Paintworks, or visit my Facebook page, which has several groups devoted to painting. "Landscape Painters" is one of them. Thanks for looking!

A Garden in Terrace

Anne and Bruce’s Garden

12” x 24”  o/c

a gift

Sometimes, the best thing about being an artist is that you can escape the bustle of a wedding kitchen and slip out into the garden to paint. I had just such luck on a recent, happy visit to Canada.  The quiet of Anne and Bruce’s prolific garden called me away from wedding preparations - but even the flowers were being whisked away for table decorations as I painted them.

This is the finished painting of that garden in Terrace, B.C., and it is meant to be a happy reminder of important occasion in their lives. I only had a short amount of time to do the study and a limited palate of acrylic paint, so the finished piece is quite a bit different than the study (published earlier, but shown again below).

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at the Daily Paintworks, or visit my Facebook page! Thanks for looking.