Spring Tulips on a Summer Tapestry

acrylic and oil     11 x 14 x 1.5"

The Daily Paintworks, 

$250.

The idea here is for the beauty of spring tulips to be highlighted by the pleasures of a summer day in the tapestry behind them. The tapestry was painted mostly in acrylics, and the tulips in oil.

This piece is painted on all sides of the canvas and is ready to be hung up as it is. 

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at the Daily Paintworks. Thank you for looking!

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    Summer Harvest 

         11 x 14"   Oil on canvas  

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Nothing like thoughts of summer to chase the winter gloom away! Where I live, it seems like the apples and the the tomatoes are ripe at the same time - right as the sunflowers are at their peak. They make a wonderful collection on the kitchen table, perfect for a still-life painting.

This picture is painted on all sides of the canvas, it can be framed, but it can also be hung up just as it is.

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at The Daily Paintworks. Thank you for visiting here!

Sunflowers,  Yellow and White

16 x 20"  Oil on Canvas
$195.

To say these are "sunflowers, past" seems so sad, although, technically, since it is December (in Northern California), they are from the past summer.  I never tire of trying to get sunflowers just right - to me they symbolize hope and warmth, each new flower full of promises. I like to think each one has its own personality, and try to capture it.

This painting is already framed, simply and beautifully.


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

The Sunflowers' Song

14 x 11" Oil on canvas
The Daily Paintworks   
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It seems like every picture of sunflowers has its own story - you could call it a song. Some are happy and full of hope, others express the power of beauty, while others might convey a feeling of poignancy. No matter how you think about them, they seem to symbolize great emotion. Rarely are sunflowers depicted as “just flowers.” While I feel differently about sunflowers at different times, they always attract me - to grow, to display, and to paint. What these sunflowers sing to me is a song with a little of everything in it. A happy melodic tune that ascends to sweet, high notes, but then turns down to catch some minor chords, reminding me that in so much beauty, there is often a hint of sadness. But perhaps that’s just me. I hope you find a worthy tune that plays in your head when you look at this painting.

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

Late Summer Sunflowers

24 x 24 x 1.5 ”

Oil on gallery-wrapped canvas

The Daily Paintworks 

 $400

This painting took it’s time coming to life. I thought it was going to be something quick and vague, with the idea of sunflowers, but really, a lot of paint and movement. But then the Muse took over and each sunflower developed it’s own personality and presence. I’m glad it turned out the way it did, it feels “right" to me, I hope you like it, as well.

Here's a detail shot:

This piece is painted on gallery wrapped canvas (1.5”); the picture continues on all sides. It hangs flush against the wall and does not need framing. But you could, of course!

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

Sunflower Tower

10” x 18”   oil on board

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This tower of a sunflower was a pleasant surprise. Rescued from a path (I dug it up and brought it home) and planted in our garden, it began to grow, and grow! It soon got so big, with so many flowers, it began to fall over. Nothing else to do but race out and paint such a beautiful and prolific plant! 

Painted on masonite board with a strong rough surface to catch the many colors of the paint, it is rich in detail. It was really a lot of fun to paint!

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

Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a bright and happy 2016!  I hope we find the coming year a more hopeful and peaceful one. My New Year's Wish is for more of the good things – more kindness and tolerance, more good health and prosperity, more contentment all around! I hope you discover something new and wonderful in your lives, that you get unexpected and pleasant surprises that you didn't even see coming. 
Cheers, everybody!

The picture above is from a painting, here's the whole thing:

Summer Flower Fun

12" x 16"

The Daily Paintworks

available

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

The Sunflower Plot

Willowgate Community Garden 

9" x 12"  oil on board
Daily Paintworks
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Summer always brings out the best in each gardener's efforts at the community garden. While many people grow a variety of things in their plots, others grow a lot of just a few things. This plot seems given to sunflowers, zinnias and the remains of some artichokes.  They all fit together nicely, and begged to be painted; it was hot, but a real pleasure to stand there and paint them. This piece was started out in the garden but finished in the studio - when I went back to paint, most of the flowers had been cut down!

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery at The Daily Paintworks. Thanks for looking!

Sunflower Season

10" x 20'   oil

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It’s sunflower season again, and you’ll see sunflowers everywhere, in books and posters, coffee mugs and paintings - not to mention in most every garden. Such bright and happy flowers, we just can’t get enough of them!

This piece is painted on gallery-wrapped canvas,  it is quite deep - 1.5", and painted on all sides. No need to frame it. It hangs against the wall just as it is, comes with a wire, and is ready to go.

This is an older painting repainted. It's from a couple of years ago, and I was not happy with it then, so probably 65% is new.  If it looks slightly familiar, that's why!

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at the Daily Paintworks, or visit me at Artistes de Studio, a site dedicated to studio work. Thanks for looking!

Late Summer,

Community Garden

12 x 16”  oil on canvas

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With this drought, the seasons slide slowly into one another, the heat lasts, the water comes from hoses, not rain. The community garden is a tapestry of different seasons, summer veggies finishing, while the fall plants are just starting up. Sunflowers grow next to pumpkins, cornstalks retain their green leaves, and second harvests sit next to winter hopefuls. Sunny afternoons are followed by colder nights, and soon the pumpkins will come out and the spinach and ruby chard will take over. Yes, this is a fall garden image, but it is a painting that took a while to "grow" and develop!

This piece is painted on all sides of the canvas, so it can be framed, or hung 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! Thanks for looking.

Summer Flower Fun

12" x 16" oil on canvas

The Daily Paintworks,  $125.

This is a painting thick with paint, and rich in color. That was my mission - to use lots of paint, and change colors often for variation and energy. In short, I wanted to have fun making it, and I want the viewer to have fun looking at it.

This piece is painted on all sides - it can be framed, or you can just hang it, as it is.

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at the Daily Paintworks, or visit me at Artistes de Studio, a website devoted to studio work. Lots of nice art there! Thanks for looking!http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/246001

Mystery Sunflowers

9" x 12"  oil on canvas

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starting bid: $65

I came across this glass vase of sunflowers while on a walk one morning. There they were,  just sitting in an empty driveway, and there they stayed for several days. What's the story here? I'm sure there is one... 

This painting is painted on all sides, so it can be framed, or hung just as it is.

To see more of my work, you can visit my Gallery page at The Daily Paintworks, or find me on Facebook.

Storybook Sunflowers 

12" x 16"  oil on canvas

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What's the story here? I don't really know -  part fact, part fiction, like many good tales. Starting out as a real stand of sunflowers growing by my house,  it turned into a fable of somewhere wonderful to live. The perfect little house, the perfect little garden, the perfect summer day. Simple as that!

This piece is painted on all sides of the canvas. It can be framed up nicely, or  hung  just as it is.

This picture can be found at Fine Art America (print-on-demand), where you can order a print of any size or a card. It's worth a visit.  To own this piece, simply click on the "Buy Now" Paypal button on your left, or email me.

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

Sunflowers, Gathered

available as a print

I am featuring this bouquet of sunflowers as one of my images that are available as prints. It is a detail from a larger piece, and is featured on my Fine Art America print-on-demand page. It can be ordered in a variety of sizes, including greeting cards. Here is the original piece:

By the Back Fence

24" x 36" oil on wrap-around canvas

sold

It is available for purchase using the Paypal "Buy Now" button on your upper left. On wrap-around canvas, it is painted beige on the sides which are 1.5"deep and needs no framing.

If you would like more information, please email me, address above, upper left.

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at the Daily Paintworks.

Sunflowers (Tweaked)

Sunflowers

8" x 10" oil on canvas

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 Look familiar? Yes, this is the same painting from my last post - almost! Cheezy, I know, but I realized that it was not quite as I wanted, so I am reposting  it after making some changes. Can you tell what they are? 

All other aspects of this post are the same, so for the same links and bits of fascinating information, please scroll down to the next (last) post!

(If you would like to purchace this painting, please click the Paypal logo to your left.)


Thank you for stopping to look!

Sunflowers

Sunflowers

8" x 10" oil on canvas

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It is summertime again, time for wonderful things, like these sunflowers! Put them with a flowing scarf and you have a still-life set up!

You can see more of my work by visiting my Gallery page at The Daily Paintworks. I also show work at Artistes de Studio, a site that features studio pieces (as opposed to plein air), and Fine Art America, where one can go to order prints and cards, as well as buy paintings. You can also buy this piece directly from me by clicking on the Paypal icon on your left.

Summer Garden

20" x 24"  Oil on Canvas

gifted

The summer garden is in full bloom now, all the plants are at their best. Zinnias compete with daisies, the zucchini and tomatoes are in abundance, sunflowers reign over all. Mother Nature in full glory!

This piece is framed in redwood lath and ready to hang.

Happy Birthday Vincent!

                              

Sunflowers in a Vase

22" x 28" 

oil on canvas

$450.

Today we celebrate the birth of Vincent van Gogh, one of painting's finest. Not only because he was such a gifted painter, although very few said so at the time, but because he painted in a style that was uniquely his own, as he thought was right, and opened a world of possibilities to the rest of us painters. Though considered unremarkable in his time, he is an icon in ours - a face and story known to all. 

But if you go deeper and think about it, he is important for many reasons. His style of painting helped create the expressionist movement as no one else did - he painted with his emotions every bit as much as he did with paint and brushes. He painted "outside the lines". He painted to please a deep inner place inside himself. He painted, I believe, to be loved. And though he was hardly considered lovable at the time, he is now one of our most beloved artists.

So, Happy Birthday, Vincent, you are, to me, very much loved.

To see his work and learn more about Vincent van Gogh please visit:   www.vangoghgallery.com/